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.
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Africhthy, a new collaborative network for African ichthyology
Ichthyologist John P. Sullivan on Africhthy, the collaborative research portal he has built for the freshwater fishes of Africa.
South Asian barbs - a guide to nomenclature
An extensive review has broken up the genus Puntius and moved a great many aquarium favourites into new genera. A guide to which name is now which.
The mystery of the aquarium tiger barb...
Matt Ford on a fish everybody knows and nobody can name: the aquarium tiger barb turns out to be of decidedly questionable identity.
'Phallusy' or foe? The myth of the candiru
The candiru has been credited with destroying manhood for over two hundred years. What the fish actually does, and how much of the legend survives the checking.
Heating the Aquarium
Why tropical fish need heating at all, and the basic ways of providing it — starting from the temperatures the tropics actually hold.
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.