AMAZONAS Magazine
Volume 5, Number 3
ON SALE: APRIL 5, 2016
COVER THEME
South American Killifishes
The next edition of AMAZONAS takes an unforgettable look at the diversity and stunning beauty of South American Killies in their natural wild habitats and in the home aquarium, with articles by Manolis Johannis, Christian Kopp, Steve Waldron, Stefano Valdesalici, and Hans-Georg Evers. Genera Covered:
• Nematolebias • Austrolebias • Austrofundulus
• Rachovia • Hysolebias • Ophthalmolebias
• Pterolebias • Moema • Simpsonichthys • Spectrolebias • Neofundulus • Papiliolebias • Trigonectes
• Plesiolebias and more.
Steve Waldron of Aquarium Zen promises this report: “Collecting Rivulus killies, Blue-eyed livebearers in the mountains of Costa Rica: A travelogue about a trip my wife and I took a few years ago the primary rainforests of Costa Rica where we encountered some beautiful stream fishes in absolutely stunning forest. Some great environmental photography including in situ underwater images of the fish, images of venemous snakes and poison dart frogs if desired.”
Features:
• Peruvian Suckermouths: A Motorcycle Collecting Expedition by Daniel Wewer
• Breeding the Micro-Gouramis (Parasphaerichthys lineatus and P. occelatus) by Frank Strozyk
• Magnificent Eartheaters (Geophagus altifrons) by Thomas Weidner
• Breeding L-Cats (Hans-Georg Evers, Robert Budrovcan and Ernst Schmidt) with a focus on L 236 and other rare Hypancistrus
• Build a Black Water Biotope: Devin Biggs constructs a simple but amazing riparium tank to house wild-type Bettas
Other Articles: Special Report by Senior Editor Michael J. Tuccinardi from the Rio Xingu in the heart of the Belo Monte Project • New Rainbowfishes (Melanotaenia sembra and M. sikuensis) by Hans-Georg Evers and • New Severum Cichlids (Heros sp. “Uaupes” and Heros liberifer by Peter Dittrich.
And much more…. The May/June Issue of AMAZONAS will be arriving in homes and stores during the last week of March and first days of April.
MATERIALS DEADLINE For Submissions: Thursday, March 10
TO PRESS: Tuesday, March 15
Subscribers can anticipate in-home delivery of print copies around the first of April, followed by email links to the simultaneous Digital Edition. Subscribe to AMAZONAS or buy Back Issues here.
Cover Credits:
Images top to bottom:
Austrolebias arachan by R. Pohlmann; Moema quii by L. Peck; and Rachovia pyropunctata by F. Vermuelen.
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For me the blood worm allergy is real. Just the smell of the worms gives me asthma. I’m not going to feed them again. Not worth the health risk especially with so many other food alternatives.Matt Pedersen says:
Indeed Joe!Matt Pedersen says:
Jules, thanks for the great viewpoint. Did you take the survey? If not, please do. To your question about a control group, we didn't conduct a scientific experiment or study (which would have the appropriate experimental design, including a control group); e.g. we did not set out to determine whether there is or is not such a thing as a bloodworm allergy; that fact is already well established by other experiments, some of which I referenced here and in the other bloodworm article. We conducted a survey, which is simply the act of gathering input from a population; there is no "control group" in a survey. However, good survey design attempts to weed out people who are lying. Just as an example - someone who's never fed bloodworms yet reports that they have an allergy, there's potentially something wrong with that response. The survey responses had almost nothing in the way of responses that needed to be thrown out, and when I looked, throwing out the questionable responses didn't significantly change the numbers. You are absolutely correct - there are no doubt respondents who may have responded that they "do" have a bloodworm allergy but in fact do not. By the same token, however, there could also be those that don't realize that they have a bloodworm allergy, but they do. We didn't actually ask every survey respondent to go take an allergy test of course. But I find it very compelling that, comparing the data collected through our survey, with the data collected by researchers doing tests specifically for antigen sensitivity, the numbers are remarkably similar. That, to me, does suggest a certain level of validity to the responses provided by the survey participants. Of course, it could be completely coincidental too.Joe Reich says:
I just have a hard time accepting that only 47% of us hobbyists are completely immune to any symptoms. I've only ever heard of one case of an extreme medical emergency from my area. No one else has said that they were having any reactions/symptoms. I have to agree with jules a birnbaum about other health issues may be at issue here too. I don't think the survey asked all the right questions for a complete analysis of this issue, but I understand how Amazonas doesn't want to get too involved in peoples lives for medical reasons. After all, who wants to put out their medical history on the web! Clearly this is an open door for further research...