Archive for the ‘Events & Field Trips’ Category

Another aquarium store worth visiting is aquatailors in Osaka, Japan. The company was founded in 2002 and presents nano fish, shrimp, freshwater and marine tanks on 150 m2. It supplies layouts for large-sized freshwater tanks and offers tanks with full layout and equipment ready for instant take-away. The local store is mostly opened from noon [...]

People come over crazy ideas sometimes and one of this maniacs is Ed Stafford, a motivation trainer. His trekking trip through the Amazonas area in South America took more than 24 months. The videos and pictures of this travelling are very interesting – check out his Blog and pictures on flickr.

South-China is the origin of the most beautiful wild caught caridina shrimps, like Tiger, Bee and Bumble Bee. Everybody ever seen Supertiger shrimp in real knows that not only selective breeding brings beauty to our hobby. Unfortunately, the shrimp habitats are strongly endangered by humans. Agriculture, ecological degradation and downstream pollution of rivers from and [...]

I was taking a walk in the palace garden in Bruehl, where I live, yesterday. The palace is surrounded by water and a small creek goes to the moat of the palace. There, I have found four Orconectes limosus hanging around. This species comes from North America and is Neobiota (invasive species) in Germany. It [...]