EQUATORIAL FISHES
VOLUME 15, NUMBER 1
5 Letter From The Editor by Alex Rose
6 Aquatic Notebook
• Remembering Lou Ekus (1955–2025) by Leslie Ekus
• Remembering Roland Beck (1954–2025) by Stephan M. Tanner
• Quality Marine/Aquatropic Achieves American Humane Certified™ Pet Provider Distinction by Marc Levenson
• Love on the Rocks by Alex Rose
FEATURE ARTICLES
16 Hyalobagrus flavus, The Shadow Catfish by Anja Katzschmann
22 Sleeper gobies: Fishes with charm and character, recommended for the aquarium by Florian Lahrmann
30 A West African beauty: Pelvicachromis drachenfelsi by Wilfried Van der Elst
36 Awaous lateristriga, The remarkable West African Freshwater Goby by Michel C. W. Keijman
46 Green Horizons: Aquascaping: where nature meets creativity by Jen Williams
54 Reportage: Observations on the behavioral biology of the Blue-Eyed Pleco by Mark Regent
62 Reportage: Modern medaka: a question of perspective by Friedrich Bitter
68 Aquatic Plants: The Cellophane Swordplant, Echinodorus berteroi by Rudolf Suttner
78 Reportage: Reunion with Uruguay: cichlids and their habitats, Part I by Wolfgang Staeck
DEPARTMENTS
86 Events Calendar
88 LFS Locator: Outstanding aquarium shops
90 AMAZONAS Lexicon
92 Species Snapshots
97 Advertiser Index
98 Underwater Eye
