Linder, Shane
ALAN REPASHY and REPASHY FOODS are the Speaker Sponsor of Shane Linder at the 2018 Convention Catfish expert and naturalist Shane Linder is the “Shane” behind Planetcatfish.com‘s Shane World. Shane’s World houses well over 150 articles by various catfish experts making it the largest such resource known to exist. Shane is also a frequent…
Read MoreSoberman, Mark
Mark has been keeping fish for over 44 years. He has been a member of the Greater City Aquarium Society since 1984, and has served on its board of directors for more than 20 years. Mark was enrolled in the Greater City’s Roll of Honor in 1998 and is one of the club’s top lifetime…
Read MoreFinley, Lee
Lee has been an aquarium hobbyist for at least 47 years (where does the time go?). As part of this, he has regularly written on various aquarial topics over the past 40 (give or take) years and has over 345 published articles to his credit. Among these writings are included almost 12 years of a…
Read MoreBodrock, Eric
Eric Bodrock, 57, is the owner of All Oddball Aquatics, a tropical fish hatchery and independent online retailer located just south of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Along with his fiancé, Regina Spotti, they currently maintain about 300 aquariums in their home based hatchery where they work with a wide range of fish species. Eric has been…
Read MoreSilvestri, Sal
Programs: Dwarf Cichlids Breeding and Maintaining Dwarf Cichlids What ‘s New in My Fishroom Viewer’s Choice: Bettas or Fish in My Fishroom A Journey into Sal’s Fish Keeping Experience. Everything You Wanted To Know- But Were Afraid To Ask! Care & Breeding of Apistogramma At Home with Apistos Home Aquarium Tour of Four Club Members…
Read MoreEvers, Hans-Georg
Hans Evers simply loves fish, and that drives him to center his life around the most beautiful hobby in the world. He lives in Hamburg, Germany, and has always been an aquarist at heart. Initially he specialized in African cichlids and then West African cichlids, However, in the early eighties he visited a friend whose…
Read MoreGraffagnino, Joe
Programs: My New Fishroom Building my New Fishroom Joe’s New Fish Room Comparing Old World Catfish to New World Catfish Knowledge of Useless Stuff I Acquired History of South American & African Catfish Tips and Trips on Raising Fry
Read MoreDavis, Chuck
Chuck has been keeping tropical fish since he was 9 years old, and 52 years later, living in Florida, he is still involved in the hobby and is an active member of the Gold Coast Aquarium Society. Chuck has owned and operated two pet shops, a tropical fish import business and he authored the Society…
Read MoreJinks, Larry
Programs: Breeding Catfish Breeding Fish New World Cichlids Building a New Fish Room
Read MoreSeidel, Ingo
Since his childhood, Ingo Seidel has kept cichlids, killies, and livebearers, but over the years he found catfishes to be his real passion. From 1992 until 2006, he was the leader of the catfish section of the German Study Group AK-BSSW (Association for barbs, tetras, loaches, and catfishes). Ingo has been able to keep and…
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