The Buntbarsche Bulletin is the Journal of the American Cichlid Association. It is published in full color six times a year on the even-numbered months. The Buntbarsche Bulletin contains articles about cichlids that will appeal to both novice and experienced aquarists.

On the main ACA website (i.e., http://www.cichlid.org) you will find back issues of the Buntbarsche Bulletin (BB). To access these, you use a generic username and password which is common to all current ACA members. It changes periodically. If you don't know what it is, please contact Ron Coleman (acawebmaster@cichlid.org). Ask for the username/password for the ACA website. You need to be a current member to get this information. This is different than the username and password which is unique to you, used to access the ACA Forum (including the Online Trading Post).

Members and non-members are encouraged to submit articles for the Buntbarsche Bulletin.

Here are the front covers and table of contents of many back issues of the Buntbarsche Bulletin.

Here are indeces to the Buntbarsche Bulletin in the form of downloadable Excel spreadsheets, by .

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Available back issues of the Buntbarsche Bulletin are available for sale through the ACA online store.

Current Issue: April 2008 - Number 245

Table of Contents From the Editor's Desk by Claudia Dickinson Aqua Havens CARES—the Next Generation. ACA C.A.R.E.S. Presentation Program by Daniel Geldof Maintaining Paratilapia Species in the Aquarium by Tom Williams Live Foods for Cichlids: The Vinegar Eel by Mike Hellweg Apistogramma hoignei (Meinken 1965) — A Venezuelan Beauty by Ted R. Judy Featherfins — Jewel of the Rift or Silver Sardines by Chad Gregory George Barlow — A Great Life by Dick Stratton Front Cover: Apistogramma hoignei (Meinken 1965). Photograph by Ted Judy

Recent Issue: February 2008 - Number 244

Table of Contents From the Editor's Desk by Claudia Dickinson The Tilapines of Lake Bermin. ACA C.A.R.E.S. Presentation Program by Paul V. Loiselle An Introduction to the 2007 ACA Guy D. Jordan Endowment Fund Recipients Does Egg Size Influence Spawning Temperature Preference in Neotropical Cichild Fishes? by Bianka Bommarito Does Quality of Parental Care Affect Pairing in a Biparental Cichlid Fish? by Samantha A. Hilber The Evolutionary Ecology of Two Distinct Morphotypes of Archocentrus nigrofasciatus in Northeastern Honduras by Michael Tobler Patterns of Genetic and Morphological Diversification in Lake Tanganyika's Tropheine Cichlids by Catherine Wagner Question: My Convict Cichlid's Name Is? A New Monograph May Change Everything. Part II by Wayne S. Leibel Front Cover: Enterochromis sp. 'red back scraper'. Phototograph by David Hansen.