When a magazine issue deals with one of the Editors own personal favorite subjects, wonderful things can happen. (Hans-Georg Evers, founding editor of AMAZONAS in Germany, a man who loves corys.)
Look to the next issue of AMAZONAS to start the winter aquarium season with an exciting new portfolio of exceptional members of the Corydoras tribesome of the best-liked and often a bit unusual fishes that are kept and bred by the magazines own editors. Among the offerings are many commendable catfishes worth discovering in the genera Corydoras and Scleromystax, with unforgettable expeditions into the native waters of South America in search of Corydoras weitzmani, Corydoras arcuatus, and Corydoras duplicareus in their native streams and forest pools.
Also forthcoming:
Aquarium Zen founder and planted tank enthusiast Steve Waldron offers a tribute to the late Takashi Amano, with a selection of images showing his evolution as the worlds greatest aquascaper.
Sergey Aniksheteyn takes a look at the charismatic Frontosa Cichlids, Cyphotilapia gibberosa and C. frontosa. The beautiful Rainbowfishes of the genus Chilatherina come under the affectionate scrutiny of Michael Wagner.
Aquarium trade explorer Mike Tuccinardi heads to India in search of answers about the status of the coveted Roseline Barb, a stunning fish with a controversial history and murky origins.
And much more: The Red Badis, a Russian underwater forest planted tank, a biotope for the Purple Emperor Tetra (Inpaichthys kerri), astonishing new forms of Bee Shrimp, an overview of some changes in the classification of exotic L-Number catfishes and more.
AMAZONAS: The worlds leading freshwater-only tropical fish magazine
Perennially the highest-ranking article of the publishing year in AMAZONAS, the March/April 2016 Issue will feature an awe-inspiring portfolio of the worlds winning freshwater aquarium aquascapes. The very best of more than 500 entries in the Aquatic Gardeners Association Annual Competition, the winning tanks range in scale from tiny to expansive, but some of the most impressive, say the judges, were rich scenes created in smaller systems, such as this 35-gallon (132-L) creation by Chaiya Choowa of Bangkok entitled, Autumn River.
OTHER major features in the issue:
RAYS DAZE Explore the streams of South America with Hans-Georg Evers, Jennifer Reynolds and Michael Tuccnardi in search of freshwater stingrays that beguile all underwater naturalists and that can make amazing aquarium specimens for dedicated hobbyists with larger systems. NEW DANIOS Professor Ralf Britz catalogues an amazing procession of Danio species coming out of Myanmar as restoration of the Burmese aquatics trade has opened the gates to fishes that have all the beauty and hardiness needed to become important players in the aquarium trade in coming years. CLIMBING CATFISH Martin Grimm tracks down the amazing Stargazer Mountain Catfish in streams near Africas Mt. Kilimanjaro and finds Amphilius, a genus of small, fascinating animals from Tansania that can climb waterfalls and delight the adventuresome home aquarist.
Much more: Breeding Channa sp. Cobalt Blue, collecting the impressive wild Corydoras geoffroy, and encountering Retroculus acherontos a stunning new current-loving cichlid from the Rio Tocantins basin of Brazil that has the cichlid world abuzz.