FRESHWATER STINGRAYS
VOLUME 12, NUMBER 5
5 Letter From The Editor by Courtney Tobler
6 Aquatic Notebook
• Redtail Garra recently named by Courtney Tobler
• The origins of domesticated Betta by Michi Tobler
• The father-of-the-year award goes to: not this cichlid by Michi Tobler
FEATURE ARTICLES
12 Freshwater stingrays and CITES regulation by Friedrich Bitter
22 Behind the scenes of a large-scale freshwater stingray breeding operation by Nathan Chiang
32 Reportage Ecoadventures near Puerto Maldonado, Peru by Ernst Sosna
46 Reportage What’s in a name? Redefining the genus Hemichromis by Anton Lamboj
52 Reportage Cichlids and more from Sierra Leone by Anton Lamboj and Amidu Mansaray
60 Husbandry and breeding Breeding Corydoras geryi by Dean Baayens
68 Husbandry and breeding Breeding the new penguin tetra: Thayeria sp. ‘Teles Pires’ by Hans-Georg Evers
74 Husbandry and breeding A small livebearer from the Amazon—Poecilia branneri by Wolfgang Staeck
82 Aquatic plants — A plant portrait: Echinodorus grisebachii by Rudolf Suttner
DEPARTMENTS
88 Aquarium Calendar
90 Retail Sources
92 Species Snapshots
97 Advertiser Index
98 Underwater Eye
