AAM Issue One Features
Pimp Your Tank Competition
The aquarium competition that goes wild!
This is a theme tank competition with over one and half thousand dollars in prizes, guaranteed to help pimp your tank even more! So get creative, think outside the tank, enter now! All entries can be sent to Comp@pimpyourtank.com
We are looking for the most impressive aquarium creation.
The Two Categories are: • Freshwater tanks • Marine tanks
Five finalists will be chosen in each category by Australian Aquarium Magazine.
Readers and web surfers vote online for their favourite pimped tanks.
Competition is for Australian Residents only. Details at pimpyoutank.com
The Pet Industry Association of Australia (P.I.A.A) keep you up to date with the very latest trade and industry news.
The Southern purple spotted gudgeon.
Mogurnda adspersa
By Adrian Tappin
Many of the fishes that we maintain and breed today were maintained and bred many years ago, often under aquarium conditions that today, we would consider very primitive. Mogurnda adspersa, the subject of this article, were bred as early as 1912 by Albert Gale of The Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales. In May 1918, they found their way into the international hobby when some specimens were sent
to San Francisco, U.S.A.
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.
Ryan Donelly writes first hand about where specimens come from.
How does a hobbyist know whether he or she is inadvertently contributing to the degradation of habitat, endangering wild populations, even perpetuating the exploitation of remote coastal communities?”
Cover Fish & Centrefold Poster
Our resident photographer Budi Lukman
gives us amazing photography and facts on Synchiropus splendidus – The Green Mandarinfish.
Astronotus ocellatus – The Oscar.
Dr. David Midgley discusses in detail the unique and often missunderstood oscar and his unusual characteristics.
The oscar is probably the most frequently encountered large aquarium fish and is certainly one of the most popular cichlids available to fishkeeping hobbyists. The oscar is unmistakeable, appearing distinctly different from most other South American cichlids.
Written by Serkan Alasaya from the Canberra Killifish Study Group with spectacular photography from Budi Lukman. This is a great introduction to the killifish.
Taming Pogostemon stellatus, found at Green Ant Creek in the Northern Territory.
Water Gardens & Ponds
Paul Shelbourne writes about how a carefully planned water feature can save water!
DIY
Build a tank background on a budget.
Clown Triggerfish
The trained dog in a fish tank.
Paul Talbot writes this entertaining story about Balistoides conspicillum (Balistidae) The Clown trigger is a unique and interesting species of fish. It is often described as being a dog in a fish tank because it can have as much personality as your family pooch!
Questions & Answers
Ask our resident experts all your aquarium questions.
Saltwater, freshwater planted aquarium and pond questions welcome.
email: questions@aquariummagazine.com.au
The Fish Vet – Dr. Richmond Loh
Dr. Loh explains the many ways a fish vet can help your aquatic animals when they are sick.
Cool Products
Latest technology, gadgets and product releases.
Book & DVD Reviews
In this section we offer reviews on books, cd’s and dvd’s to help you in deciding what information suits your needs.
Classifieds Section
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