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.
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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.
Channa orientalis Bloch & Schneider 1801
Colin Dunlop on the dwarf among snakeheads. At around 10 cm, Channa orientalis asks far less of a tank than the metre-long relatives that give the genus its reputation.
Cycling an Aquarium
Mark G N Ferguson breaks down the process every new aquarium depends on — where the ammonia comes from, where the bacteria come from, and how to get them established.
For Peat’s Sake...
Matt Ford argues the hobby should stop using peat — a valuable, non-renewable resource whose extraction is visible from orbit.
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.
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.
Pupfish form evolutionary 'mountain ranges'
Barely kept and difficult to maintain, the pupfishes of the genus Cyprinodon are of outsized interest to evolutionary biologists. Their isolated desert waters are the reason.