The giant dwarves

I THINK IT’S interesting how in our hobby, appreciation ebbs and flows, surges and quiets and goes through cycles. I am referring to how we view species of plants and fishes and how this changes over

WITHIN THE AQUARIUM hobby, all sorts of bottom-dwelling, cyprinid-adjacent fishes are referred to by the name 'loaches'. So, we have the hillstream loaches of the family Gastromyzontidae, of which the

MANY QUESTIONS CAME to mind as our small speedboat fights its way from the island of Koh Rong to the pier in Sihanoukville, through the high waves of the Gulf of Thailand. Will the strap that ties the

WHEN YOU THINK of the Rio Negro, the image that springs to mind is almost universal among fishkeepers: slow-moving blackwater streams, tea-stained depths, limited visibility, sandy shores with leafy s

IT’S CRAZY HOW time is flying. It seems as if it was only yesterday when I received my very first group of shrimp. But, in fact, it was well over two decades ago when my good friend put a dozen of pal

THE CARIBBEAN HAS long been regarded as a diver’s paradise, and for good reason. A sprawling patchwork of islands, spread over a million square miles, they encompass almost every type of underwater ha