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.
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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.
For Peat’s Sake...
Matt Ford argues the hobby should stop using peat — a valuable, non-renewable resource whose extraction is visible from orbit.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.