by Eugene T. Aldridge, Jr. Saturday: I started out at noon on June 27, 1987 on one of the greatest adventures of my life, going to the...

by R. Shane Linder On Sunday, November 19, 2000 I headed southwest from Caracas to the Rio Guarico. I had collected this place before but...

by John Mangan Along with my friends Dominic and Janet Isla, I have been on a series of fish collecting trips to Mexico. We try to view...

by Nancy Johnson I have good addictions, and bad ones. The prize for the worst definitely goes to smoking. Bad, bad, bad, bad. My kids...

by Alysoun Laughlin Several PVAS members participated in a recent field trip sponsored by the Greater Washington Aquatic Plants...

by Leslie Keefer At the ripe old age of nine, I won my first fish at a carnival. My hobby had begun, much to my mother’s dismay. She was...

By Don Kinyon A relatively new addition to the hobby, the tetra Tucanoichthys tucano was described by Gery and Romer in 1997. It’s still...

By Don Kinyon One of my favorite pet shops is a very small independent store that stocks mostly the bread-and-butter varieties of...

by Francine Bethea The White Cloud comes from the White Cloud Mountains in Canton, China. Probably all of the White Clouds available...

by David Snell My three trios of N beckfordi came from the Aquarium Center in September 2000. Nannostomus beckfordi are found in the...

by Lorne E Williams After having been out of the tropical fish hobby for about ten years I bought two pairs of guppies at the PVAS...

by Gene Moy Guppies are reported to have started many in the aquarium hobby. They are enduring favorites at the PVAS auctions. Many...

by David Snell I purchased a pair of Head-and-Tail Light tetras from the Centreville Aquarium shop in late October 2000. I put them into...

by David Snell Ever since I started keeping fish back in ’93 I have been keeping tetras in at least one of my tanks. It was not until the...

by Bob Bock Imagine a fish that looks like a cross between an angel fish and a tiger barb, but with a gentler nature than either species....

by R. Shane Linder The leopard danio is one of the most common danios found in pet stores. The fish is an overall metallic gold with...

by R. Shane Linder The pearl danio is, to me, the prettiest of all common, small danios. The fish is an overall blue-silver with a...

by Leslie Keefer Occasionally as we progress in a hobby, we lose touch with the magical aspects that drew us to that activity in the...

by John Mangan Belonesox belizanus is the only member of its genus and is a relatively large, for a livebearer, predatory fish. They can...

by Don Kinyon One of the fish that’s been around the hobby for years and years is the Nandid from India, the Badis badis. It’s sometimes...