Features 'Great Snails' , 'Blue Rili shrimp', 'Spiny eels breeding'.....looks like I have my bedtime reading lined up... ;D
Got mine too....read it cover to cover. Such a beautiful magazine.
Quote from: PaulineMi on May 29, 2013, 07:57:41 AM
Got mine too....read it cover to cover. Such a beautiful magazine.
Yes, it is....nicely put together..... ;D
Hey Pauline, Stephan does the english translation for Amazonas now! Or rather he has since around the first of the year...
Dennis
I didn't realize that. Just looked it up in the magazine and there it was. Interesting.... :)
QuoteHey Pauline, Stephan does the english translation for Amazonas now! Or rather he has since around the first of the year...
From what language?
Quote from: BillT on May 29, 2013, 06:42:52 PM
From what language?
The original magazine is in German. The English version is not an exact copy of the original. There was, (I am told), a very nice article on the Tanichthys thacbaensis in the German May/June 2012 issue by Ingo Seidel. Again, (I am told), this will appear in the English version at some future date.
Dennis
Takes a while to get them translated I guess.
T. albonubes were featured this month. I have a group of them and have always found them to be very pretty little fish.
QuoteT. albonubes were featured this month. I have a group of them and have always found them to be very pretty little fish.
I have read that they were the poor person's neon tetra when they were first introduced. Neon tetras were expensive and were not being bred. T. albonubes was easy to breed an become cheap but still looked nice.
T. albonubes has been around since the 1930's and is indeed a staple of the hobby. Since 2001 three others have been discovered in Vietnam. T. micagemmae, T. thacbaensis and just recently a new as yet un-named fish, T. sp. ?Vietnam?.
T. micagemmae is fairly common and easy to obtain. T. thacbaensis I have only seen available on 3 occasions, but should become more readily available as hobbyist breeders start working with the fish. T. sp. ?Vietnam? has never been available in this country to my knowledge.
Dennis
Sorry to be a bore folks..... just picked up my copy at the Post Office and see that most of this is covered in the article. :-[
Dennis
Quote from: BallAquatics on May 31, 2013, 08:56:47 AM
Sorry to be a bore folks..... just picked up my copy at the Post Office and see that most of this is covered in the article. :-[
Dennis
LOL...... ;D
Not being a bore at all! You have such an in depth knowledge of what I like to call "little fish". That you were able to provide all of that Tanichthys info confirms it.
BTW....the snail articles with photos were well done and I loved the pictures of the baby spiny eels. The author's description of the youngsters made them sound charming.
Thank you Pauline. I totally agree with your & Jon's appraisal of the magazine, it is currently my favorite aquatic publication. They cover topics with such depth, that even subjects that would not normally be of interest, become very entertaining and enlightening.
Dennis
I have a different outlook on snails after reading a book titled "The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating" by Elisabeth Tova Bailey.
It's about a bed-riddened woman's observations of and caring for a woodland snail in a terrarium on her nightstand. Nice story.
I'll have to look that one up the next time I'm at the library....
Dennis