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Juan Miguel Artigas Azas is an aquarist in San Luis Potosí, Máxico (the very center of it). He has loved fish since he can remember and has kept them steadily in home aquariums for over 30 years now. His main interest are Central American Cichlids and Mexican fishes, but he is also very interested in any other type of fish.
Juan Miguel is the creator and editor of the Cichlid Room Companion. His love for computers and nature, together with the revolutionary development of Internet was too much for him to let the opportunity to create this page pass along. He has found that the maintenance of a real good home page is a life time enterprise, and he is ready to cope to that.
Juan Miguel enjoys traveling to the natural habitats of the fish he loves, where he obtains underwater pictures of them. He likes to observe them, trying to understand their natural history and relationships. He has managed to obtain a great knowledge on the biology and geographical distribution of the fishes in Mexico. This gives to his conferences an originality and special interest.
Juan Miguel has written many articles on Mexican and Central American Freshwater fish, mainly on cichlids, for several club and aquarium publications. He has also been honored with the invitation as lecturer in fish oriented conventions in several countries, including Máxico, United States, Belgium, Canada, England, Netherlands, Norway, France, Italy Sweden and Germany. Juan Miguel is part of the American Cichlid Association - Marineland speakers program.
Juan Miguel has been awarded the Guy Jordan Retrospective Award 2008 by the American Cichlid Association. The maximum honor this association gives to people who has done extensive contributions to the International Cichlid Hobby.
The lectures that Juan Miguel currently presents include:
- Cichlids from Costa Rica; In this talk the species, habitats and distribution of all Costa Rican cichlids is discussed, as well as observations on behavior in the natural habitat, the talk is illustrated with maps and hundreds of habitat and underwater pictures of Costa Rican cichlids and other fishes that inhabit with them. (Approximate Duration: 90 minutes)
- Herichthys, the northern cichlids; In this talk the species, distribution, behavior, habitats of the Northeastern Máxico cichlids are discussed and illustrated with maps and hundreds of habitat and underwater pictures of Herichthys and other fishes that inhabit with them. Aquarist guides for the successful keeping and breeding of these beauties are also given. (Approximate Duration: 90 minutes).
- Central American Rheophilus Cichlids; In this talk the species, distribution, behavior and habitats of the Central American cichlids that inhabit in river currents are discussed and illustrated with maps and hundreds of habitat and underwater pictures of the species treated and other fishes that inhabit with them. Aquarist guides for the successful keeping and breeding of these beauties are also given. (Approximate Duration: 90 minutes).
- Thorichthys, jewels of the Mayan land: In this talk the species, distribution, habitats and behavior of this fabulous group of central American cichlids is discussed and illustrated with maps and hundreds of habitat and underwater pictures of Thorichthys and other fishes that inhabit with them. Aquarist guides for the successful keeping of these beauties are also given. (Approximate Duration: 90 minutes).
- Goodeids; The forty species of this group of livebearer Cyprinodotinds mostly endemic from Máxico are covered, with notes on the family. Aquarium guides for the successful keeping and breeding of all the species in captivity are given. The talk is illustrated with maps, habitat and pictures of all the species, some of them taken underwater in their natural habitat. The status of all the species in the wild is discussed. (Approximate Duration: 90 minutes)
- Introduction to Livebearers from Mexico; Máxico is a land of livebearers, in this talk the several groups inhabiting the country are discussed, with notes on their distribution, habitat and the several species living with them. The talk is illustrated with maps, habitat and many species pictures, most of them taken underwater in habitat. (Approximate Duration: 90 minutes).
Juan Miguel Also maintains a
personal home page.
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Juan Miguel Artigas Azas, Ad Konings and Don Danko at the 2008 Ohio Cichlid Association Extravaganza. Photo by Larry Johnson |
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