Already as child I have annoyed my parents with my passion for the secrets of the tropical rainforests with their fascinating variety of animal species and plants. I had still to wait up to my first " jungle-aquarium " some years then. That was before over 30 years. Since then, I have hold miscellaneous fresh - and also salt-water-fishes in different tanks. I have nursed my oldest fish for 26 years, it is a 20 cm white-striped thorny-catfish, named " Dorni ", a Platydoras costatus from the Rio Negro. Today, I only have 7 tanks with together approximately 4500 litres of content because of lack of time. I have concentrated on Amazon-biotope-aquariums. My particular interest is directed at the Cichlids (Cichlidae), the moderate-sized Catfishes, Loricariidae, the thorny-catfishes and the living fossils, the "bony tongues" = Osteoglossidae, just as the weakly-electric knife-fishes = Gymnotiformes/Apteronotidae/Rhamphichthys from the Amazon-area.

The tank with the Uarú amphiacanthoides (triangle-cichlid = wuaroos) and the Arowana I started only 2 Years ago. The Brazilian fish-exporter with domicile in Santarem assured that the Uarus were caught wildly in the lower Rio Nhamunda. A couple has already found together and has spawned for several times.- The Osteoglossum comes from the Rio Negro. As I received him, he still had remains of his yolk-sack and the, for the subtype " ferreirai " typical, black youth-color, in the difference to Osteoglossum bicirrhosum, that therefore-comes as young-fish silvery. In the meantime, my Arowana is approximately 2 years old and on 40 cm grown up, maximum size in the nature: up to 120 cm, remains however clearly smaller in the aquarium . Fascinating is the red color of his unpaired fins and the "rusty-red" color of his back.- Probably a rare sub-species ?

A sensational photo-animation with jump out of the water while feeding my Arowana is  H E R E , to admire!

Now follows a gaze on my tanks and their inhabitants. -  PHOTO GALLERY 

Further descriptions of the biotope, behavior-studies of the fishes, aquaristics and scientific should be added in the course of the time. This site is still in the construction. I´m planning also the installation of a live-AquaCam or Video-clips.

About a feedback via  M A I L  I´d be very pleased. - Much fun with the surfs!