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Fish-vengers In-fin-ity Wars

April 27, 2018 By The Wet Spot Tropical Fish All Other Catfish, Catfish, Fish, Pike Cichlids, Pikes and Peacock Bass, South American Cichlids, Whiptail Catfish

For those of us who are awe-struck by the multitudes of defensive and offensive adaptations present in the animal kingdom, nerding out about superheros isn’t much of a leap...

Don’t Go(by) Chasing Waterfalls

April 20, 2018 By The Wet Spot Tropical Fish Estuarine Gobies, Fish, Gobies, Other Gobies

Inspired by the passion disseminated by LA County Natural History Museum Curator of Ichthyology, Chris Thacker, in her interview on the podcast Ologies, this week...

Eye of the Tiger

April 13, 2018 By The Wet Spot Tropical Fish All Other Catfish, Angelfish, Discus, and Severums, Catfish, Discus, Fish, Naked/Scaleless Catfish, South American Cichlids

The largest cats on earth, the tiger is one of the most recognizable and popular creatures for their...

Traversing Muddy Waters and the Blues

April 6, 2018 By The Wet Spot Tropical Fish Catfish, Central and South American Tetras, Characins, Fish, Hemiancistrus, Hyphessobrycon

No one knows the blues like McKinley Morganfield did. But before he made his move to Chicago to invent his own kind of blues...