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Biotopes of Indonesia
Chris Englezou

What exactly do we know about the critically endangered freshwater fish Parosphromenus gunawani?

The Licorice Gouramies The genus Parosphromenus sits discreetly within the taxonomic subfamily of the Macropodusinae, often overshadowed by the popularity of the Betta, Macropodus, and even the Trichopsis. Still, these little bursts of colour and iridescence truly are the gold dust of the Gouramis, somewhat like Bettas, but better! Parosphromenus

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20th December 2023 No Comments
Biotopes of North America
Ryan Crutchfield

BIOTOPES OF FLORIDA | NOTROPIS PETERSONI | THE COASTAL SHINER

Notropis petersoni, known as the coastal shiner, is endemic to the south-eastern United States where it ranges from North Carolina, through coastal South Carolina and Georgia, throughout Florida, and west through Alabama to Jordan River in Mississippi (Image 1). It can be found in in many different environments including lakes

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17th December 2020 No Comments
Biotope
Jeffery Chan

Biotopes of Hong Kong | Hill Stream Habitats | Blue Neon Stiphodon

Hill stream habitats in Hong Kong are home to some of the most endearing and enigmatic fishes on Earth. These oxygen-rich, cool mountain streams or often, torrential rivers, provide crucial habitat, not only for exclusively freshwater dwelling species, but also form important migratory routes and nurseries for anadromous, amphidromous and

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21st November 2020 1 Comment
Biotope
C.E. Fish Essentials

Biotopes of Cameroon | Pantodon buchholzi, the African butterflyfish

The freshwater butterflyfish Pantodon buchholzi (Peters, 1886) are found in lightly acidic, water bodies in West Africa. Typically, they are found in habitats with slow current or standing water with high amounts of surface foliage and/or riparian vegetation for cover. They have been observed in Lake Chad, the Congo Basin,

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23rd February 2020 No Comments
Biotope
C.E. Fish Essentials

Biotopes of Cameroon| Benitochromis nigrodorsalis

Benitochromis is a small genus of cichlid fishes that are endemic to riverine and lake habitats in Middle Africa (Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea, including the island of Bioko). Several of these species were originally assigned to the genus Chromidotilapia. The genus Benitochromis was erected by Dr Anton Lamboj in 2001

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15th February 2020 No Comments
Biotope
Zaheer Afie

Biotopes of Brunei | Beyond Wong Kadir

Located deep inside the Labi jungle in Belait District, our latest adventure takes us to visit three different waterfalls, each located in the upper stretches of the Mendaram River; our final research point was at the third waterfall, the location of which can be seen on the map below. On

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29th March 2018 5 Comments
Biotope
Chris Englezou

The birth of the wild aquarium | a tool for conservation

Almost five years ago, artist and river explorer Ivan Mikolji uploaded a video to the infamous video sharing site Youtube which would change the direction of the aquarium hobby forever, sparking a new wave of interest in nature and natural aquarium fishkeeping.   To an outsider, a non-fish-keeper, the “Wild Aquarium”

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26th March 2017 1 Comment
Biotope
Zaheer Afie

Biotopes of Brunei | Ichthyofauna of the Teraja Falls

On 18th March 2017, we, Brunei Biotope Group, were off again on another journey into the Labi jungle of Brunei in hopes of finding something exciting. On this trip our group of four people were heading towards Teraja Waterfall, a widely known fall along the Sungai Teraja which is frequented

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19th March 2017 No Comments
Discus Fish
Chris Englezou

Finding the Rio Xingú Golden Discus

  Brian Middleton was his name, the first man to breed the elusive and incredible Xingu River Discus fish. I tried for years to find him, but he had literally disappeared from the aquarium hobby sometime in the late 1990’s or soon thereafter and seemed unreachable. All I had was

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29th May 2012 9 Comments