Wildlife and nature photographer Jack Perks has devoted his life to capturing some of the UK’s most elusive species, with a penchant for underwater subjects. The “Fish Twitcher”, as he is known on some of […]
Author: Max Pedley
Max Pedley has kept fish all his life, but only really got involved in the hardcore side of the hobby around 5 years ago. Apistogramma and other South American dwarf cichlids really make him tick, but he also has a special passion for Wild type Bettas, West African Dwarf cichlids and all Characins.
Max enjoys keeping up to date with the taxonomic side of fishkeeping.
Danish Aquarium leads the way with Malagasy cichlid conservation
Reportedly extinct in the wild as recently as 2013, Ptychochromis insolitus numbers will hopefully begin to rise due to the success had at Den Blå planet. Having bred the closely related Ptychochromis grandidieri in good […]
Liverpool aquarist aims for the top with state of the art Fishouse
Last month, Fishkeeping News visited 24-year-old Liam Roberts and his fish house. An avid breeder of cichlids amongst other things, Liam’s space is enough to make the mouths of even the most experienced aquarists water. […]
New Species of Peruvian tetra
A new species of tetra was imported from Peru, late last year. It has recently been named informally by members of the hobby in Asia as Hyphessobrycon sp.” super red line”. Leading ichthyologists are in […]