Podcasts about killifish

To continue Killifish month, the Water Colors team is back to discuss mop-spawning killifish! This distinction is given to killifish species that breed in moss/plant mats, which aquarists often replicate with yarn “mops” that are easily removed and combed for eggs. They make excellent project fish and are incredibly adaptable to various temperatures and parameters. They can be kept in small tanks, making them the perfect fish for those with limited space. Did we mention that some of these species are, in our opinion, the most beautiful freshwater fish of all time? The hosts discuss their favorite species, care requirements, and personal experiences keeping mop-spawning killis. To learn more about the upcoming Killifish Karnival/Tropical Magic event (3/29/2025 – 3/30/2025) visit: https://mas.fish/society-events/killifish-karnival/ Join the discussion on the Water Colors Aquarium Gallery Podcast Listeners Facebook group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/788428861825086/ Enjoying the show? Support the gallery by shopping aquarium plants, merch, equipment, and more! https://watercolorsaquariumgallery.com/ Looking for more content? Become a YouTube member for exclusive access to behind the scenes livestreams! https://www.youtube.com/@watercolorsaquariumgallery

To kick off killifish month, the Water Colors team is discussing biotope examples based around some of our favorite killifish! These examples focus on the native habitats of these killifish species. Some examples include specifics such as tank size, substrate, plants, decor, and other tankmates. We have biotope examples from all around the world, replicating lakes, rivers, vernal pools, and even rice paddies. Which biotope would you want to setup? To learn more about the upcoming Killifish Karnival/Tropical Magic event (3/29/2025 – 3/30/2025) visit: https://mas.fish/society-events/killifish-karnival/ Join the discussion on the Water Colors Aquarium Gallery Podcast Listeners Facebook group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/788428861825086/ Enjoying the show? Support the gallery by shopping aquarium plants, merch, equipment, and more! https://watercolorsaquariumgallery.com/ Looking for more content? Become a YouTube member for exclusive access to behind the scenes livestreams! https://www.youtube.com/@watercolorsaquariumgallery Biotopes/species mentioned in this episode: Lake Mai-Ndombe, Congo River Basin Poropanchax brichardi, nanochromis transvestitus Western Coastal India rice paddy Aplocheilus lineatus, danio rerio Sierra Leone Epiplatys annulatus, lagidesia roloffi Għadira Nature Reserve Aphanius fasciatus Mediterranean ‘oasis’ Paraphanius mento Zanzibar seasonal streams/pools Nothobranchius guentheri Ivindo River Drainage, Northern Gabon Diapteron fulgens, ‘barbus’ hulstaerti Courantyne River Laimosemion xiphidius Coastal Tanzania Vernal Pond Nothobranchius rubripinnis Buenos Aires Flooded Pasture, Argentina Argolebias nigripinnis Nyong River Watershed Fundulopanchax sjostedti

In this episode, "Navigating Regulations in Laboratory Fish Research", the crew delves into the intricate yet essential regulatory framework that encompasses various fish species employed in scientific research. Let's make regulations fun! This podcast is brought to you by the African Turquoise Killifish. The name “Killifish” is of Germanic origin, with the root word meaning “bay” or “gulf”. Some might guess that with the word “kill" being part of their name that they might be ferocious creatures, however they are actually a lovely laboratory species, capable of getting along with tankmates. The killifish is an excellent model for aging studies due to its short life cycle and because of the dry season in Africa, many parents don't live to see their offspring. Don't worry, ghost killifish parents, your children are doing just fine and you should be proud of them. Thanks for listening to Gettin' Fishy With It! You can find our website with show notes at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://gettingfishypod.substack.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. You can find us on twitter at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@gettinfishypod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and on Instagram ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@gettingfishypod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. You can also find us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. If you want to drop us an email, you can send your complaints (or questions!) to gettingfishypod@gmail.com. Our theme music is “Best Time” by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠FASSOUNDS⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Our audio is edited by Amber Park Chiodini. Amber has her own podcast all about movies, called ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠So What Happens Next?⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ We very much appreciate you taking the time to listen to our twenty-second episode! Please help out the podcast by subscribing on your podcast platform of choice. If you could leave us a review, that would be super helpful! If you would like to support the show, you can sign up as a paid member on our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, or you can ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠buy us a coffee⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! Thanks and we'll “sea” you again in two weeks!

Killifish make for great pets, display fish, and breeding projects. Some of the easiest types to keep and breed are known as non-annual killifish, or mop-spawners! This name comes from the strategy aquarists use to induce spawning behavior - by placing a synthetic yarn mop to encourage breeding and to collect eggs. The Water Colors team discusses some of their favorite killifish that can be bred in this manner, as well as tips and tricks to take on your own project at home! Watch our tutorial on creating mops here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TteHpP9okBk Watch our tutorial for collecting eggs here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHXBYxyTpTk Have some fun killifish of your own you'd like to share? Or questions on how to begin your own project? Join the discussion on the Water Colors Aquarium Gallery Podcast Listeners Facebook group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/788428861825086/ Species mentioned in this episode: Fundulopanchax gardneri Aphyosemion striatum Lamprichthys tanganicanus Aphyosemion bivittatum Aphyosemion hera Scriptaphyosmeion gurgnardi Fundulopanchax sjostedti Aphyosemion fellmanni Epiplatys annulatus Aphyosemion australe "Gold" Aphyosemion/diapteron abacinum Aphanius mento Epiplatys singa Aphyosemion/diapteron fulgens Epiplatys dageti (Monroviae) Aphyosemion elberti

What are your favorite Water Colors Aquarium Gallery episodes? It's like choosing a favorite child! Tune in to hear Ben, Amy, and Charles' top 5 favorite podcast episodes ever recorded. Some make the list due to their significance, while some are in the running simply because we had a good time recording. This episode was livestreamed on YouTube! To watch the session, you can find the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/live/T7u3EqCt1I4?feature=share Chime in with your favorite episodes on the Water Colors Aquarium Gallery Podcast Listeners Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/788428861825086/ Episodes mentioned: 12: Intro to Killifish 17. Trade Secrets: How Water Colors Quarantines EVERY Saltwater Fish 24. Invasive Species with Dr. Alisha Davidson 25. Our Five Dream Saltwater Fish 50. Adventures in Acclimation: From Coral to Coral Beauty 56. Interview: Will Ogburn and Laura Roy, University of Dayton Fish Lab 61: Five Killer Beginner Mistakes 62. Saltwater Changes 67. Lacey Act Amendments 79. Schooling Reef Fish 80. Designer Clownfishes 82. Conservation in Aquariums: Is It Enough? 88. Biotopes: Examples of Replicating Wild Habitats 89. The Breeding Projects We're Most Proud Of 90. Blackwater Aquariums: Turning a Fringe Habitat into a Mainstream Hobby 92. Aquariums for Kids: Fostering an Enduring Love for the Hobby 99. Licorice Gouramis: Little Gems of the Rainforest 104. Questions Submitted by Podcast Listeners 108. Worst Aquarium Advice We've Seen Online 111: Wild-Type Clownfishes and Where to Find Them 112: Dirt-Spawning Killifishes

O nome mais comum no hobby é Killifish, mas é possível que você o conheça por nomes regionais como “peixe… O post SarloCast #37 – Killifishes: O peixe Guerreiro! apareceu primeiro em Grupo Sarlo.

This week we're talking about the tiny killifish! Listen to hear all about their extremely hardy eggs, strange parasites, and the reason scientists love to use them for experiments! If you'd like to support the show, please check out our merch store over on Etsy where we sell stickers, sticker sheets, and postcards. Don't forget to subscribe and leave us a rating and review. To stay up to date and see our weekly episode illustrations, make sure to follow us on Instagram and Twitter. And don't forget to check out our TikTok! Beyond Blathers is hosted and produced by Olivia deBourcier and Sofia Osborne, with art by Olivia deBourcier and music by Max Hoosier. This podcast is not associated with Animal Crossing or Nintendo, we just love this game.

Meet a serious player in the salt-marsh ecosystems of the Pacific coast! You'll find the Cali Killi migrating with the tides and feeding everything from Least Terns to California Halibut. Drew Talley from the University of San Diego helps shed light on a small but hugely important fish and what it's teaching us about California's remaining coastal wetlands.

Lexman and his guest Tim Dillon discuss the brig and its importance to the Killifish community. After spending some time discussing the different types of promenade gibbons, they move on to talking about the gingals.

Episode #5 of Daffy's Round table featuring Gary Elson. Join us in part 2 of our talk with Gary about all things killifish. In this part we discuss collection methods, water parameters and why breeding Killifish is super important for the hobby!  If you enjoyed this episode please subscribe to Daffy's Round Table on whatever streaming platform you use!  Links discussed:  Join the Canadian Killifish Exchange group on band:   https://band.us/n/a3af5cF363O1m?fbclid=IwAR2TmYRTGbaDSOIgOwUYDMYt50mSLtzI-Q9UKA-YoUWR6Att9ftOGP5VrFs (https://band.us/n/a3af5cF363O1m) Southern Ontario Killifish Society:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/401881833213068 Follow Daffy:  Instagram: @Daffysreptiles Twitter: @Daffysreptiles Facebook: Facebook.com/Daffysreptiles Tiktok: @Daffysreptiles Business: daffysreptiles@gmail.com

Episode #4 of Daffy's Round table featuring Gary Elson. Join us as Gary talks about all things killifish from the natural history and collection to the breeding secrets and everything inbetween! This is part 1 of my talk with Gary so make sure you come back next week for part 2!  If you enjoyed this episode please subscribe to Daffy's Round Table on whatever streaming platform you use!  Follow Daffy:  Instagram: @Daffysreptiles Twitter: @Daffysreptiles Facebook: Facebook.com/Daffysreptiles Tiktok: @Daffysreptiles Business: daffysreptiles@gmail.com

How do organisms cope with long periods of tough conditions where regular life is impossible? How do some animals turn down their metabolism to levels so low that they can appear dead? How do animals emerge from such deep, low activity states? In this episode of Big Biology, we talk with Jason Podrabsky, a professor of biology at Portland State University, about diapause – a remarkable physiological state in which organisms turn down their metabolic rates to a bare minimum. Diapause is a way of living through harsh conditions while spending as little energy as possible. We talk with Jason about how organisms enter diapause, what happens inside them during diapause (more than you would think!), and how they reboot their systems to emerge from diapause. We focus on Jason’s work with the amazing annual killifish. In some species in this group, embryos can go into diapause and survive for months in the dry mud of ephemeral ponds, waiting for the next rain to arrive. Photo: Claire Riggs and Jason Podrabsky --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bigbiology/message

Episode Notes Check out Smokin' Joe at https://www.smokinjoeonline.com/makemeasong (Tell em we sent you) Shop shrimp at https://joesshrimpshack.com/ with promo code: "BATHWATER" for 15% off your order & free Shrimp Bathwater! (Valid until Jan 31st!) Tip our toes into the amzing world of killis with Joel Antkowiak! Check out the AKA here: https://www.aka.org/ Submit your questions at discord.gg/aquariumguys Support The Aquarium Guys by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-aquarium-guys Find out more at http://www.aquariumguyspodcast.com

OASE Living Water links: Webpage | YouTube | Facebook | Instagram | OASE Store Support the Aquarist Podcast sponsor OASE by following their social media accounts and checking out their innovative aquarium products.   Check out Rich's new website: http://richsfishroom.com   SNEKA club page (Southern New England Killifish Association): https://sneka.org   Melanie Stiassny's talk on evolution in the Lower Congo River: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKK881p0KzU  

I live annual killifishes. Why? Well, one reason is that they are so intimately tied to their aquatic habitats. And the aquatic habitats are so profoundly influenced by the surrounding terrestrial habitats. Yeah, you know where I’m going. We need to question some things we’ve been doing forever with killies. Maybe we can do them better?

In this episode: Ben gets the opportunity to geek out on one of his favorite groups of fish. Killifish are some of the most diverse and adaptable organisms on the planet, found in nearly every type of freshwater ecosystem and on nearly every continent. If you’ve never considered keeping killifish before, give this episode a try. There’s a killi for every method of aquarium keeping, you just need to find the right one.Have something to say about this episode or general podcast feedback? Send an e-mail to podcast@watercolorsaquariumgallery.comCheck us outSEE DETAILS

Learn about why some words are more memorable than others; how hair growth works; and how fish end up in landlocked lakes. Brain study reveals why some words are more memorable than others by Kelsey Donk NIH study finds out why some words may be more memorable than others. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-06/nion-nsf062620.php  Xie, W., Bainbridge, W. A., Inati, S. K., Baker, C. I., & Zaghloul, K. A. (2020). Memorability of words in arbitrary verbal associations modulates memory retrieval in the anterior temporal lobe. Nature Human Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-0901-2  Hair growth, explained by Steffie Drucker Hair Loss: The Science of Hair. (2010, March 1). WebMD. https://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/hair-loss/science-hair#1  Venton, D. (2015, April 21). The Big Question: Why Does Hair Grow in Some Places But Not Others? WIRED. https://www.wired.com/2015/04/hair-only-in-some-places/  Feltman, R. (2016, July 19). Dear Science: Why does the hair on my head grow longer than the hair on my body? The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/07/19/dear-science-why-does-the-hair-on-my-head-grow-longer-than-the-hair-on-my-body/?arc404=true  Curiosity. (2018). How Does Hair Growth Work? [YouTube Video]. In YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBhmxVeJZ-I  SciShow. (2015). How Does Hair Know When to Stop Growing? [YouTube Video]. In YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf6BnOLb5xs  Martin, R. D. (2016) Beauty and the Beard. Psychology Today. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-we-do-it/201802/beauty-and-the-beard  Fish eggs migrate to landlocked lakes via bird poop by Grant Currin Koumoundouros, T. (2020). We May Finally Know The Extreme Route Fish Take Through Air to Colonise New Lakes. ScienceAlert. https://www.sciencealert.com/squishy-fish-eggs-can-survive-harrowing-journeys-through-duck-guts  Lovas-Kiss, Á., Vincze, O., Löki, V., Pallér-Kapusi, F., Halasi-Kovács, B., Kovács, G., Green, A. J., & Lukács, B. A. (2020). Experimental evidence of dispersal of invasive cyprinid eggs inside migratory waterfowl. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(27), 15397–15399. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2004805117  Silva, G. G., Weber, V., Green, A. J., Hoffmann, P., Silva, V. S., Volcan, M. V., Lanés, L. E. K., Stenert, C., Reichard, M., & Maltchik, L. (2019). Killifish eggs can disperse via gut passage through waterfowl. Ecology, 100(11). https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2774  Dispersal of fish eggs by water birds – just a myth? (2018). ScienceDaily. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180219103258.htm  [Curiosity Daily Episode] Remembering Words on the Tip of Your Tongue, Parkways vs. Driveways, and A Flapping Spacecraft to Explore Venus https://curiositydaily.com/remembering-words-on-the-tip-of-your-tongue-parkways-vs-driveways-and-a-flapping-spacecraft-to-explore-venus/  Subscribe to Curiosity Daily to learn something new every day with Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer. You can also listen to our podcast as part of your Alexa Flash Briefing; Amazon smart speakers users, click/tap “enable” here: https://www.amazon.com/Curiosity-com-Curiosity-Daily-from/dp/B07CP17DJY 

Links- Dr. Joe's focus fish - Fundulus bifax aka Stippled studfish https://www.fishbase.de/summary/Fundulus-bifax http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/184079/0   Renova oscari breeding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr5AdSsyJqA   Join the American Killifish Association: http://aka.org/subscribe/ https://www.facebook.com/American-Killifish-Association-441507139269126/     Join the North American Native Fishes Association: http://www.nanfa.org/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/65970536072/  

Please listen in as I welcome back Joe Ferdenzi to the Aquarist Podcast in a truly special recording.  Joe invited me to his home in New York to share his fish room and his knowledge of our beloved hobby.

I am joined by Joe Ferdenzi, life long aquarist, killifish fanatic, and Beginners' Committee Chairman for the American Killifish Association. American Killifish Association - http://aka.org/   Killifish referenced during the show - Saberfin Killifish (Terranatos dolichopterus)  

Here at Tangents, we don't mess around when it comes to Halloween. So each week in October, the topic will be one of our greatest fears! Hank was apparently too afraid to even be on this episode, so instead special guest Caitlin Hofmeister confronts her fear of failure as we tell her tales of science gone wrong!   Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions!    If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:   [Truth or Fail] Bubble Wrap https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/accidental-invention-bubble-wrap-180971325/   Whoopee Cushion https://torontoist.com/2013/04/toronto-invents-the-whoopee-cushion/   Vaseline https://www.dummies.com/education/history/american-history/the-history-of-an-incredibly-useful-u-s-product-vaseline/ https://www.damninteresting.com/nugget/story-of-vaseline/   [Fact Off]   Mosquito self-limiting gene  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-49660-6 https://www.inverse.com/article/59254-genetically-modified-mosquitoes   Four Pests campaign http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/bodyhorrors/2014/02/26/mao-four-pests-china-disease/#.XKzfDOtKhxw https://io9.gizmodo.com/china-s-worst-self-inflicted-environmental-disaster-th-5927112 https://chineseposters.net/themes/four-pests.php http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20061130_1.htm https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1127087/    [Ask the Science Couch]   Killifish https://science.sciencemag.org/content/354/6317/1305 https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/against-tide-fish-adapts-quickly-lethal-levels-pollution/ https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/09/science/atlantic-killifish-evolution-pollution.html    Radiotrophic fungi https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/radiation-helps-fungi-grow/ https://mbio.asm.org/content/7/6/e01483-16 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0000457    Birds https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/04/140424223057.htm https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2435.12283  https://www.cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/pdf/S0169-5347(16)00019-7.pdf    [Butt One More Thing]   Artificial poop pills https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/08/sham-poo-washes-out/493811/  https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/214/2/173/2572105

This week's (short) episode is about two animals that should have been in the strangest small fish and weird pigs episodes, respectively. I left them out by accident but they're so interesting that they deserve an episode all to themselves anyway. Thanks to Adam for suggesting the mangrove killifish! Further reading: 25 Years in the Mud: How a Quirky Little Fish Changed My Life The mangrove killifish just looks normal: Not a unicorn pig (okay yes technically a unicorn pig): Unicorn pig skull: Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw. A few weeks ago we had an episode about strange small fish. Shortly after that episode released, I was going through my disorganized ideas and suggestions file and realized I’d left out one of the best weird small fish ever, a suggestion by Adam. I also discovered I’d missed an extinct pig I’d planned to include in the recent weird pigs episode. So let’s play catch up in a short episode and learn about both this week. The fish Adam suggests is called the mangrove killifish, also called the mangrove rivulus, which lives in parts of Florida and Mexico, down to Central and South America. It’s technically a marine fish, meaning it lives in salt-water, but it also likes brackish water, that’s less salty than the ocean, and occasionally it even lives in freshwater. It especially likes mangrove swamps. It grows up to 3 inches long, or 7.5 cm and is a mottled brown in color with an eye spot on its tail. It doesn’t look like anything special. But the mangrove killifish has a lot in common with amphibians, especially the lungless salamanders. Many types of salamander absorb air through the skin instead of through lungs or gills. The mangrove killifish does this too. It often lives in abandoned crab holes, which may not have very high quality water. But that’s okay, because it can absorb air through its skin and can live out of the water for well over a month as long as its skin stays damp. It’s sometimes found in places where you wouldn’t expect to find a fish, like the inside of rotting logs or buried in damp dead leaves. So how does the killifish get into the rotting logs or the leaf litter or the crab burrows that aren’t connected to waterways? It actually uses its tail to flip itself out of the water and onto land, and then it continues to flip here and there until it finds a place where it wants to live for a while. It can direct this jumping, not just flop around like most fish out of water, and can jump several times its own length. A lot of times when the tide goes out, fish get trapped in crab holes, dimples in the sand or mud, and other shallow water. That’s okay if the tide comes back in far enough to re-submerge the holes, but if the water doesn’t quite reach, it’s not long before fish start to suffocate as all the oxygen in the water is used up. But the killifish doesn’t have that problem. It just flips itself out of the water. It can also leave the water if it gets too hot. The killifish is also territorial in water, which requires a lot of energy. When it’s out of the water, or in a little temporary pool or a crab burrow where it doesn’t have to worry about other killifish, it can relax. On the other hand, it loses a lot of weight while it’s out of the water since it doesn’t eat as much. So there are trade-offs. Even the killifish’s eggs can survive out of water. The fish usually lays its eggs in shallow water, sometimes even on land that’s just near water. The eggs continue to develop just fine, in or out of water, but they delay hatching until they’re submerged. And that leads us to the most astonishing thing about the mangrove killifish. In most populations, almost all killifish are females, and most of the time they don’t need a male fish to fertilize their eggs. Females produce eggs but they also produce sperm that fertilize the eggs before they’re even laid.

Killifishes are a large and diverse group of fishes. They’re super colorful, interesting, relatively easy to breed- and they come form all sorts of fascinating habitats ripe for replication in our aquariums! So what aren’t they more popular? I think I know why.. and how to fix this!

Humans have sought new materials to make elusive blue pigments for millennia—with mixed success. Today, scientists are tackling this blue-hued problem from many different angles. Host Sarah Crespi talks with contributing correspondent Kai Kupferschmidt about how scientists are looking to algae, bacteria, flowers—even minerals from deep under Earth's crust—in the age-old quest for the rarest of pigments. Also this week, host Meagan Cantwell speaks with Andrew Whitehead, associate professor in the department of environmental toxicology at the University of California, Davis, about how the Atlantic killifish rescued its cousin, the gulf killifish, from extreme pollution. Whitehead talks about how a gene exchange occurred between these species that normally live thousands of kilometers apart, and whether this research could inform future conservation efforts. This week's episode was edited by Podigy Download the transcript (PDF) Ads on this show: KiwiCo Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast

Humans have sought new materials to make elusive blue pigments for millennia—with mixed success. Today, scientists are tackling this blue-hued problem from many different angles. Host Sarah Crespi talks with contributing correspondent Kai Kupferschmidt about how scientists are looking to algae, bacteria, flowers—even minerals from deep under Earth’s crust—in the age-old quest for the rarest of pigments. Also this week, host Meagan Cantwell speaks with Andrew Whitehead, associate professor in the department of environmental toxicology at the University of California, Davis, about how the Atlantic killifish rescued its cousin, the gulf killifish, from extreme pollution. Whitehead talks about how a gene exchange occurred between these species that normally live thousands of kilometers apart, and whether this research could inform future conservation efforts. This week’s episode was edited by Podigy Download the transcript (PDF) Ads on this show: KiwiCo Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast

OASE Living Water links: Webpage | YouTube | Facebook | Instagram | OASE Store Support the Aquarist Podcast sponsor OASE by following their social media accounts and checking out their innovative aquarium products.   Check out Rich's new website: http://richsfishroom.com   SNEKA club page (Southern New England Killifish Association): https://sneka.org   Melanie Stiassny's talk on evolution in the Lower Congo River: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKK881p0KzU  

Links- Dr. Joe's focus fish - Fundulus bifax aka Stippled studfish https://www.fishbase.de/summary/Fundulus-bifax http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/184079/0   Renova oscari breeding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr5AdSsyJqA   Join the American Killifish Association: http://aka.org/subscribe/ https://www.facebook.com/American-Killifish-Association-441507139269126/     Join the North American Native Fishes Association: http://www.nanfa.org/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/65970536072/  

I am joined by Joe Ferdenzi, life long aquarist, killifish fanatic, and Beginners' Committee Chairman for the American Killifish Association. American Killifish Association - http://aka.org/   Killifish referenced during the show - Saberfin Killifish (Terranatos dolichopterus)  

Killifish are beautiful, small-bodied fish found in many areas around the world, including in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe. They are, as a group, one of the aquarium industry's hidden gems with only some of the hundreds of brightly colored species sold in local aquarium shops. In nature, some of them live in tiny puddles of water, where their eggs must survive dry periods. One species can reproduce, literally, on its own, from just one fish! All have fascinating life histories. Our guest today, Charlie Nunziata, has been an active aquarium hobbyist for more than 45 years. Charlie is a life-long member of the American Killifish Association, through which he has been awarded numerous honors. He has founded local societies in New York and Florida, and is currently a Board of Trustees member and chair of the Killifish Conservation Committee. He also is very active with the North American Native Fishes Association. Join us, as Charlie teaches us more about the fascinating and unique killifishes--and how to find them and keep them successfully! More details on this episode MP3 Podcast - Killifish: Small, Secret Gems of the Aquarium World with Dr. Roy Yanong