Expectations & Perception

This magazine will sometimes feature fish no one else has.

The magazine is filled with more advertisements than content. There have been a few gems (Blue Ring Octopus overview in 2000) but most articles are accompanied by no photos and give no real value of importance to an aquarium keeper. Most articles are so heavy in opinion and personal memories about their past experiences that can be of no interest to anyone not personally close to the writer(s) that it winds up a boring read barely worth keeping for the few photos of fish that attracted the reader to buy the magazine in the first place.

I've read a few good articles, like I said, but would never consider telling anyone to buy a subscription to this over priced magazine.

Used to be great, but has gone WAY downhill

Years ago, this was a great magazine, and all the top experts contributed. That was then, this is now.

Often contradictory, frequently confusing, and seldom edited, too many of the articles in FAMA just do not hold up to close scruitiny. In recent issues I've seen:

* Contradictory advice in two separate articles,
a certain indicator of lack of editorial oversight

* An article about keeping a beta in a flower
bowl, which is cruel by any standards

* Rambling, off topic content which any competent
editor would have cut

* Articles which add no particular value to anyone,
including some strange pseudo fiction that
nobody I've spoken with can understand

Best advice: Subscribe to one of the other magazines. While none are perfect, all are better than this.