Author Archives: Aqualog Redaktion

Medicinal trees: The Common Alder

Betula, Betulaceae, Common Alder, Corylus

12. October 2016

It is increasingly being recognized within the framework of close-to-nature fishkeeping that the maintenance and breeding of fishes, shrimps and other crustaceans, gastropods, bivalves, and aquatic plants goes better and is more satisfying the more closely it imitates the example...
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Top Imports: September 2016

4. October 2016

First Place - Sternarchorhynchus from Peru The odd Sternarchorhynchus, number 1 of this months' imports, originates from Peru and belongs to the family Apteronotidae. The number of described species of Sternarchorhynchus has risen enormously in the past few years. Up...
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Do you know what are the commonest animals in the world?

Cuvierian tubules, Holothuroidea, Sea Cucumbers, starfishes, toxic

27. September 2016

Hand on heart: did you answer the opening question with "sea cucumbers"? And yet it is true! Sea Cucumbers are a model of evolutionary success! They represent some 90% of the biomass of the ocean depths, and around 70% of...
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Emperor Tetras – Gorgeous Colombians

Characidae, Characins, Emperor Tetras, Kyburz, Nematobrycon amphiloxus, Nematobrycon lacortei, Nematobrycon palmeri, Pseudochalceus kyburzi

20. September 2016

In 1958 William A. KYBURZ, an ornamental fish exporter based in Bitaco, Colombia, discovered a gorgeous tetra, never before seen alive. The species was subsequently identified as Nematobrycon palmeri (EIGENMANN, 1911). KYBURZ exported the species to the United States in...
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