New shrimp from Hong Kong and southern China
The 'tiger' and 'bee' shrimps have long been treated as variants of a single species. New descriptions from Hong Kong and southern China settle what they actually are.
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Five new species of Badis described from West Bengal, India
Stefan van der Voort on five new Badis described from West Bengal, and on how much of that region is evidently still unexplored.
Badis singenensis, the most unique badid gets a name – or does it?
Stefan van der Voort on a new Indo-Burmese badid and whether its name will stand — printed here in the original text, after a magazine altered it without asking.
New darter characins from Brazil
Almost every darter characin in hobbyist literature is called Characidium fasciatum. New species from Brazil are a reminder of how little that name settles.
For Peat’s Sake...
Matt Ford argues the hobby should stop using peat — a valuable, non-renewable resource whose extraction is visible from orbit.
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.
In Memoriam: U Tin Win (1944 - 2014)
An appreciation of U Tin Win, who died in August 2014, and whose work shaped both the scientific exploration of Myanmar's freshwater fishes and its ornamental export trade.
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.
Botiid fishes of the 'Modesta complex' – an analysis of natural history and behaviorisms
Mike Ophir on the loaches of the 'Modesta complex' — long treated as the community tank's cleaning crew, and still poorly served by what is known of their care.