Issue #661 April 2011
Feature Articles
Three select articles will be offered in their entirety each month, available to all visitors.
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A Family Vacation to See Cichlids in Nicaragua’s Crater Lakes Author: Lawrence Kent |
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A South American Cichlid Show Aquarium Author: Iggy Tavares, PhD |
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Bring Your Pond to Life with Tropical Lilies (Full Article) Pondkeepers install water gardens for a ... Author: Mark Denaro |
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Expressing a Sense of Depth with Driftwood and Aquatic Plants Author: Takashi Amano |
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Freshwater Crustaceans, Part One: Shrimps (Full Article) As a freshwater hobbyist, you are probably ... Author: Kenneth Wingerter |
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Groupers in the Home Aquarium (Full Article) We’ve all seen them at one time or ... Author: Jim McDavid |
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Here Today, Gone Tomorrow? The Múzquiz Platy Author: Bill Allen |
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Variations in Wild Offshore Guppies in Tobago Author: Ronny Lundkvist |
Columns
Available exclusively to TFH Magazine subscribers (print and digital)
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Ask Jack Author: Jack Wattley |
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Buyer Beware! The Queen Conch and Scallops Author: James Fatherree, MsC |
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For the Love of Algae Author: Rhonda Wilson |
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Import Report Author: Stan Sung |
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Jonathan Truong’s 40-Gallon Garden Reef Nano Author: Mike Maddox |
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Polymorphic Males in Dwarf Xiphophorus Author: Rich Serva and Gil Rosenthal |
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Roger’s Reef: A Custom 250-Gallon Living Coral Reef Aquarium, Part 4 Author: Jeff Turner |
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Supporting the Troops on the Front Lines of Cichlid Conservation Author: Ted Judy |
About the Cover
Colorful, fun to keep, and easy to propagate, the multihued zoanthids are extremely popular for nano reefs. The hobby names given to these “zoos” can be as colorful as their striking polyps, and the ones blazing on the cover of this issue are a perfect example with their creative moniker “radioactive eagle eyes.” Read all about the garden reef tank where they are thriving in this month’s “Going Nano” (p. 44).
photograph by Jonathan Truong
Species Profiles
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Hypostomus plecostomus Describer: (LINNAEUS 1758) |
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Blyxa aubertii Describer: (L. C. RICHARD 1814) |
Tip of the Month:
The number of eggs a female fish produces is related to the amount of parental care given? A cod might shed several million eggs in a single spawning, leaving them to disperse in the open ocean, while a cichlid that broods her eggs in her mouth and cares for the fry after hatching may produce only a half dozen per clutch.
