LaCorte, Rosario
Thank you to the Greater City Aquarium Spciety for sponsoring long-time club member Rosario LaCorte as a speaker at the 2019 Convention! NEC 2006 Convention – “The NEC’s Golden Anniversary” – An Evening with the Legends” Panel member Rosario, commonly known as just “ZA,” is a long-time friend of the NEC and well deserves his…
Read MoreHoetmer, 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 MoreNielsen, Dalton
Dalton Nielsen ichthyologist and aquarist. Author of the definitive book for anyone interested in the small South American annuals such as Campellolebias, Notholebias etc. Titled “Simpsonichthys e Nematolebias” (in Portuguese language) Programs: Collecting Melanorivulus – Ecology, Reproduction, Habitat & Systematics
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 MoreAntkowiak, Joel
Joel Antkowiak was born on the Southside of Pittsburgh in 1962, Joel’s first brush with the organized hobby came in 1976 when he found an ad for the American Killifish Association in an old aquarium hobby magazine. Having always appreciated the beauty of these fishes from the color plates in the old “Innes book”, and not…
Read MoreMackowiak, Lenny
A resident of New Jersey, Lenny was the New and Rare Species Chairman for the AKA for nearly 20 years. During those times Lenny developed contacts and friends around the world in his efforts to obtain new and rare killies for the hobby. Lenny is the current president of MAKA, the Metropolitan Area Killifish Association.…
Read MoreBock, Bob
Bob Bock enjoys writing and speaking about aquarium fish and aquarium-related topics. He writes a column for the Biotope, the newsletter of the Capital Cichlid Association. Bob also is the author of the “Meet the Hobbyist” column, which appeared in Tropical Fish Hobbyist. He has also contributed articles to Aquarium Fish International, Freshwater and Marine…
Read MoreNiedzielski, Greg
Greg Niedzielski has been keeping tropical fish for longer than he cares to admit. He is a member of the American Kiliifish Association and is currently an A.K.A. Senior Judge as well as a Technical Editor for the Journal of the American Killifish Association. Greg is the author of many articles on killifish, including one…
Read MoreHaas, Gary
Programs: Introduction to Killifish for Advanced Hobbyists
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