Randall, Karen
Karen Randall grew up with aquariums as a child. While experienced in many facets of the aquarium hobby, as an adult her focus turned to a concentration on planted display aquariums and the study and propagation of aquatic plants. Her articles and photography have been published in multiple languages and publications around the world. For…
Read MoreAbrams, Steve
Steve is an Aquarist at New York Aquarium caring for Marine and Freshwater quarantine area and caring for Freshwater and Marine public exhibits. Also, relief Aquarist for penguins and seals. He is a Curator for Science Museum of Long Island – Care and exhibit design for fish, reptiles mammals and birds, an Instructor for Limnology,…
Read MoreBarber, 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…
Read MoreVan Rossum, Guy
Guy Van Rossum received his first aquarium as a Christmas gift when he was ten years old. He describes it as a “ten gallon stainless steel beauty.” With only one four year gap in the 50 years since, Guy has always kept fish. He has dabbled in marine tanks and cichlids but always returned to…
Read MoreMandrekar, Kapil
Kapil Mandrekar, is currently a Ph.D. student in Aquatic Ecology/Ichthyology at SUNY-College of Environmental Science and Forestry located in Syracuse, NY. As a Ecologist/Ichthyologist, my current research focuses on ecology and conservation of the MEGAFISH arapaima in the lower Amazon regions near the urban center of Santarém (Para State, Brazil). This area has multitude of…
Read MoreForcier, Richard
Programs: Goodeid Livebearers Collecting in Florida Three Weeks Collecting in Mexico
Read MoreDilks, Kerry
Kerry was born and raised in Methuen, Mass by two former hobbyists. She is now the proud owner of Fins and Scales of Hanover PA. The single mother of two, she balances home life and running a small scale fish business based from her home. Kerry spent most of her youth in the food service industry waiting tables and tending…
Read MorePinto, Tony
Tony has collected in many parts of the world and his main interest is anabantoids and killies. He has written many articles for TFH magazine, Tony’s talks are like actually being there -He takes lots of picturesand usually includes the flowers, birds, etc in an area. Programs: Labryinth Fish Collecting in Guyana Fish Tourism in…
Read MoreQuinn, Matt
Matt Quinn has been keeping fish and participating in aquarium clubs or over 30 years. He maintains a basement fishroom of over 50 tanks, in which he keeps and breeds a wide variety of tan, brown, and gray cichlids and livebearers. Matt is an active member of the CCA, CCY, and ACA and spends his…
Read MoreFear, 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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