Shedding light onto darkness

by Ray Torres, USA My wife and I were doing our usual Friday night thing: water changes in our fish room, when she asked, “If you were a Betta, which would you be?” Like many Betta enthusiasts, I had a fascination with black Betta splendens and Betta...

Breeding Betta splendens

by Joe Boardman (St Helens A.S.) Have you ever dreamt of breeding the Siamese fighter Betta splendens, but have been put off by the thought that they are difficult to breed? Untrue, if you follow my simple method of spawning and rearing fighters. What are we dealing...

Sarawak Quest 1

by Tan Heok Hui This is the first of three accounts of trips to Sarawak to collect fish specimens. It also marked my first experience fishing with the world-renowned ichthyologist, Dr. Maurice Kottelat. Our main purpose was to obtain the fish record from the...

Starting with Labyrinths – your first Gourami

By David Armitage I’m conscious that new members, especially juniors, may find some of the articles in ‘Labyrinth’ over-technical. The Latin names and the plethora of newly-discovered fish must be confusing to someone who was attracted to the family...

Care and breeding of the jealous Betta

By Andrew Smith In the summer of 1991, a small, 3 cm, wine-red Betta was collected in the North Selangor area of Malaysia and was duly named, ‘livida’, after its green eyes, meaning ‘jealous’. This fish was another of the Betta coccina group...

Sarawak Quest 2 (1995)

by Tan Heok Hui This was my second trip to Sarawak and proved to be most interesting. Betta taeniatawas at last found by pure and simple unadulterated good luck. This time around, we concentrated on the areas around Kuching. Day 1We arrived on Sunday, hoping to soak...