South Asian barbs - a guide to nomenclature
An extensive review has broken up the genus Puntius and moved a great many aquarium favourites into new genera. A guide to which name is now which.
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A Passion for Cichlids
The first of an interview series. Ichthyologist and aquarist Michael K. Oliver on the systematics of Malawi's cichlids, and on diving the lake to collect them.
Africhthy, a new collaborative network for African ichthyology
Ichthyologist John P. Sullivan on Africhthy, the collaborative research portal he has built for the freshwater fishes of Africa.
For Peat’s Sake...
Matt Ford argues the hobby should stop using peat — a valuable, non-renewable resource whose extraction is visible from orbit.
Major Changes in New World Cichlid Taxonomy
A review of the herichthyin cichlids of Middle America has named eight new genera and moved a number of aquarium favourites between them. What changed, and why.
Stunted growth means stunted lives
The first of a series supporting BIAZA's Big Fish Campaign, on why aquarium fishes are treated as disposable and why, in some cases, size really does matter.
The Desert Fish Habitat Partnership
Freshwater conservation is set to become one of the most pressing environmental problems of the coming decades. A look at one partnership working on it in the American desert.
Whaddaya mean, too hot?
Many aquarium fishes are held at temperatures they would never meet in nature. Rüdiger Rautenberg on how following the rules on heating may be costing you money.