Pierce, Richard

Richard Pierce has been keeping fish for as long as he can remember. He has earned degrees in Marine Biology and Biological Oceanography.  He has worked in a retail aquarium store and in two public aquaria. He currently maintains approximately 1200 gallons in roughly 120 aquaria in his fish room.  Since his largest aquarium is…

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McAndrews, Ryan

Programs: Fishes of the Rio Negro, Brazil (with Scott Dowd) The Great Barrier Reef Travels to the Amazon A Tale of Two Fishes

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Barber, Michael

His parents gave him a five gallon metal frame, slate bottom tank when he was a youngster. Despite the resulting memories of stainless steel, incandescent light hoods tingling him, he was set in the hobby when allowed to be late to school to watch his guppy have babies. Fifty plus years later, he has a…

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Graffagnino, 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

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Mazeroll, Dr., Anthony

Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies at SOKA Universities.  Dr. Mazaroll writes, “I am a Fish conservation ecologist with a variety of research interests.  The bulk of my work is on the impact of exotic species in the aquatic ecosystem, specifically, in the Peruvian Amazon and Cambodia.  I also am interested in dispersal patterns of…

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Wessel, Rusty

Programs: The Thorichthys specis of Central America Fishes of the Maya!—fishes from Southern Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras Central American Livebearers in the wild! (ALA 2017) Central American Cichlid Husbandry & Travelogue

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Fear, George

George Fear is the owner of Shark Aquarium in Hillside, New Jersey, one of the largest retail tropical fish and aquarium stores in the area, specializing in rare and hard to find tropical fish from all over the world. He is past president of the American Catfish and Loach Association, and board member of the…

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Dowd, Scott

Scott Dowd is a conservation biologist at New England Aquarium in Boston, MA, USA and Executive Director of Project Piaba. He received his M.Sc. from the University of Stirling in 2003; his thesis was entitled “Observations on the cardinal tetra fishery with an emphasis on the measurement of stress.” For more than 20 years, Scott has…

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Rollings, Alan

For more than 50 years Alan has had the pleasure of having at least 1 tank of fish to enjoy and look after. As with many hobbyists, he was keeping cichlids before he  was aware that such things as cichlids existed. These were the ubiquitous angels, kribs, and convicts. By the time Alan had left…

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