Elsewhere in the issue we have more for the Neotropical buff, as first-time author Dan Woodland contributes his account of keeping and breeding the so-called Golden Mojarra, Herichthys bocourti, a little-known and rarely kept cichlasomine from Guatemala. And regular contributor Willem Heijns continues his coverage of Nicaraguan cichlids with the discovery of a brilliantly-marked variant of Archocentrus nigrofasciatus from a volcanic island in the middle of Lake Nicaragua. 

     Of course we don’t want to neglect you Rift Lake types. In an exciting development, Domenic Ruggiero, an Australian hobbyist, reports his successful spawning (multiple spawnings, actually) of Benthochromis tricoti, indeed a much-anticipated feat. As usual, one of the keys appears to turn out to be space, space, and more space, as his colony is housed in a huge display tank; after all this fish, from the depths of Lake Tanganyika, needs room to move! Then, Eric Genevelle continues a series of articles on Lake Tanganyika, describing a day in the life of an actual collector on the lake. And in Cichlids and Science, Ron Coleman updates the status of cichlid stocks — some good news and some bad — from Lake Victoria. 

     With this issue we complete our first decade of publishing Cichlid News. As always, we’re looking for your feedback and welcome suggestions and criticisms as to how to provide you with what you most want to see about cichlids. So please feel free to drop me a line (or email us at ) about your thoughts. And in closing, a word of warning: due to rising costs (especially in postal rates), there will be a price increase in the magazine effective 1 January 2002.  So, you might want to consider an early renewal on your subscription.