Hoetmer, Jan Willem
Jan Willem Hoetmer is the current president of Killifish Netherlands. KilliFish The Netherlands (KFN) is an association founded on October 21, 1972, which aims to generate appreciation for nature and especially for the egg-laying tooth carps (Killies). http://www.killifishnederland.nl/ Program: Breeding Killifish in The Netherlands Collecting Western Brazil
Read MoreHeller, Jack
Jack Heller has been in the fish hobby since childhood and began his involvement with killifish while in graduate school. He is active in the American Killifish Association and has served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the AKA. Jack has also collected killifish in Cameroon, West Africa in 1998. Program: A Rainy…
Read MoreHarlan, Ron
Ron Harlan (also known as “Piranha Ron” due to to a conspicious ornament he wears around his neck) Ron can trace his interest in tropical fish to his childhood in Rangoon, Burma. He helped a family friend, U Cho, drag a seine through streams and collect tropical fish. He joined the American Killifish Association in 1965 and…
Read MoreDick, Leslie
Leslie Dick is the current Chairman of the American Livebearer Association (ALA) and is a charter member of the North American Goodied Working Group (NAGWG), as well as a member of the NAGWG steering committee. She is the CARES for Individual Coordinator with the CARES Preservation Program. Leslie sits on the BOD of the Northeast…
Read MoreJones, Gary
Gary Jonesis the curent Corporate and Scientific Affairs Manager from Mars Fishcare http://www.marsfishcare.com/ and a regular contributor to Pond Trade Magazine. When you consider aquariums, ponds and aquatic environments, Gary Jones can truthfully say, “been there, done that.” As a student he majored in Biology and Business/Marketing. As a college professor, he taught Aquaculture, Fish…
Read MoreRoss, Carol
Carol is currently the Vice-President, Editor & Exchange Editor for the Buck’s County Aquarium Society. Carol has kept fish since 1948 when she first became enchanted by the basement fishroom of one of her parents’ friends. Since then, when she started with guppies, she has maintained up to 20 or so tanks, depending upon her…
Read MoreRichter, George
George Richter has been keeping and/or collecting fish since his mother let him take responsibility for her Guppies when he was 9 or 10. With her help and guidance they managed to kill those Guppies. The Guppies were soon replaced and they persevered. He has always had some kind of fish since and still manages…
Read Morede Greef, Jaap-Jan
Jaap-Jan de Greef was born in 1957 on the island os Sumatra in Indonesia as a citizen of the Netherlands. Political unrest and his father’s occupation forced him and his family to move a number of times — from Indonesia to Mozambique to Tanganyika (Tanzania) to Suriname to the Netherlands to Ecuador and then to…
Read MoreCumming, Jim
Jim Cumming hails from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and is a lifelong fish keeper, having been involved in this wonderful hobby for over 50 years. Other than a fifteen year sojourn into the world of killifish (his online name is ‘notho2000’) he has kept and presently keeps mostly Central and South American cichlids, but he…
Read MoreTencatt, Luiz
Bachelor in Biological Sciences by the Universidade Federal Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS). He holds a Master’s and Doctorate degree by the Postgraduate Program in Ecology of Continental Aquatic Environments (PEA), Universidade Estadual de Maringá (UEM), Research Center in Limnology, Ichthyology and Aquaculture (Nupélia). He is currently a Junior Postdoctoral fellow (PDJ / CNPq) at…
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