Hello everyone,
The next annual meeting and subsequent general meeting will take place in North Rhine-Westphalia. We will be meeting there at the “Hotel Alt Warburg” from April 26 to 28. Continue reading
Hello everyone,
The next annual meeting and subsequent general meeting will take place in North Rhine-Westphalia. We will be meeting there at the “Hotel Alt Warburg” from April 26 to 28. Continue reading
Am Freitag, den 16.02.2024, trafen wir uns zum ersten Mal in diesem Jahr in der Regionalgruppe Nord der IG BSSW. Continue reading
Im Februar geht eine neue Regionalgruppe der IG BSSW an den Start: Die RG Bodensee. Continue reading
the first step has been done: As previously announced, these are the key dates for this year’s Tetra symposium.
The date is the weekend from 30th of August – 1st of September 2024 (with arrival on Friday), the venue is:
Hotel & Restaurant Fricke
Niedersachsenstr. 8
D-31275 Lehrte/OT Hämelerwald
+49 (0) 5175 7796
info@hotelfricke.de
www.hotelfricke.de
A double room including breakfast costs 104 €, a single room between 72 and 82 €, depending on the room type and of course also including breakfast. For single rooms, those who book early get the cheaper option. Please book the rooms as early as possible under the keyword: “BSSW” or “Tetra Symposium”!
As always, we are currently working on a varied programme for tetras, which will be announced soon. We are also happy to accept offers or requests for lectures. Because this is the only way to organise an important part of the event in addition to all the discussions we will share.
Best regards from the organising team
Armin SENGER – Eckhard FISCHER – Achim WERCKENTHIN
Hello everyone,
The next annual meeting and subsequent general meeting will take place in North Rhine-Westphalia. We will be meeting there at the “Hotel Alt Warburg” from April 26 to 28. Continue reading
The Zebra Otocinclus is probably the most spectacular and most attractive Otocinclus species for the aquarium hobby. It has been known for some time that there are two forms of the species described in 2004 as O. cocama: one from the lower Río Ucayali and another one from the Río Tigre. Both rivers are tributaries to the Río Marañón, which ultimately flows into the Amazon. While the Ucayali form, on which the description is based, has been exported for the aquarium trade since around the turn of the millennium, it is mainly the Tigre form that has been on the market in recent years, at least in Germany. Both populations can be clearly distinguished by their stripe pattern. The question of whether the populations can also be distinguished morphologically and genetically, and thus also whether they are merely variants of one species or two distinct species, was investigated by Eduardo MEJIA and Roberto E. REIS and recently published. Continue reading
Der 2. Dezember war auserkoren, um das Jahr der RG Fulda ausklingen zu lassen. Eine Weihnachtsfeier mit Versteigerung, Vortrag und zwei Geburtstagen. Ideale Bedingungen also und ich freute mich, dass ich eingeladen worden war an dem Abend über Bolivien zu reden. Continue reading
The Ancistrus species L267, already presented by Claus SCHAEFER in the DATZ in 1998, has now been described by NEUHAUS et al. in the current issue of the Journal of Fish Biology (DOI: 10.1111/jfb.15637) as Ancistrus yanesha. Continue reading
Am 18. Februar 2023 war es soweit, das erste Treffen der IG BSSW e. V. Regionalgruppe Österreich fand unter neuer Leitung statt. Getagt wurde im 13. Wiener Gemeindebezirk. Continue reading
Treffen am 25. November 2023 bei der BSSW Nordbayern in Schwabach mit Weihnachtsfeier
Pünktlich um 20:00 Uhr eröffnete Obmann Ernst SCHMIDT die Versammlung. Continue reading
Am 09.09.2023 traf sich die RG Fulda unter Führung von Bernd HEMMELMANN zu einer Exkursion zu Europas größter Quallenzucht in Fulda Künzell. Continue reading