The not so terrible ctenopoma

FOR MANY DECADES, representatives of the genus Pelvicachromis have been highly popular among aquarists and are therefore commonly kept in home aquaria. This is most likely due to the fact that these a

I WOULD ARGUE that one of the joys of this hobby is encountering people who are as passionate about aquaria, fishes and nature in general as myself. I find it quite wonderful to get into conversation

DR PETER BURGESS Peter is our disease expert. Send questions his way if you have pathogen problems. BOB MEHEN Bob is a master of fishkeeping general knowledge and community tanks. JEREMY GAY Jeremy is

I’M CURRENTLY READING a wonderful book called Local, by British explorer Alastair Humphreys. After years of trekking across deserts, mountains and jungles he decides to buy a map of his local area ‘so

I HAVE ALWAYS loved unusual aquatic creatures. It isn’t surprising then that I was among the early adopters who embraced shrimp-keeping, a special branch of the aquarium hobby. I started off with the

IN 1924, THE American zoologist Nathan Everett Pearson published a work on the ichthyodiversity of Bolivia that is still unrivalled today. It was entitled ‘The fishes of the Río Beni catchment, Bolivi