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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Judy, Ted

Ted Judy is an enthusiastic aquarist with over 25 years of fish keeping and breeding experience.  He is a generalist who enjoys all types of fish from anabantids to tetras, but always finds plenty of room in his fish roof for fish from West Aftrica.  Ted is a member of the Board of Trustees of…

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Biggs, Chris

Chris hails from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.  He is a devoted father of three, and court Jester to his lovely and tolerant Queen, Dayna. A life-long Aquarist, his father thrust him into the hobby at a very young age, with a small tank they kept in their family den and Chris has never looked back. He…

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Peragine, William Chance

Programs: Breaking Glass With Style (an overview of cutting glass and repairing broken glass tanks) Starting a Planted Tank Keeping Apistogramma & Blackwater Tanks Dwarf Cichlids Apistos

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Boruchowitz, David

Programs: Where Have We Been, Where Are We Now, and Where Are We Going? David’s Adventure with Cichlids and Some thoughts on the Future of the Hobby

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George, Peter

I’ve been involved with tropical fish essentially from birth. My grandmother, who immigrated to the US in 1923, always had a fish tank in our apartment in The Bronx. I kept at least one tank with me when I went to college and have been keeping fish on a more significant scale for close to…

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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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Carr, Kevin

Programs: How to Keep Big Fish King of the Monsters A Trip to Florida (with Kerry Dilks) Ten Biggest Cichlids Run for the Roses [How to prepare for a fish show – editor] Cichlids and Cichlid Shows Cichlids of the Line Large South & Central American Cichlids Giant Central American Cichlids

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Sherman, Paul

Programs: Mudskippers Brackish Water Aquariums Brackish Fish Saltwater Cichlids in a Community Setting Paludariums, Ripariums, and Vivariums Mudskippers & Other Brackish Fish

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Abrams, 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,…

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