Konings, Ad

Ad was born in Roosendaal, Netherlands, lived most of his life in Rotterdam, and currently resides in El Paso, Texas.  He has a degree in medical biology and has studied molecular biology as well.  Although his interest in cichlids began when he was just 12 years old, it was not until 1986 that he moved…

Read More

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…

Read More

Liu, Michael

I’ve been keeping tropical fish since 1983. I quickly developed an interest in Cichlids and one tank turned into 2, then 3, then 4, then 5 . . . you know the story. It turns out there are a lot of species and I wanted to keep them all! My interest narrowed to New World…

Read More

McGee, Ph.D., Matthew

Mathew McGee, a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department Fish Ecology & Evolution (EAWAG) located in Switzerland. Programs: Victorian Cichid Speciation and Extinction

Read More

Steinhaus, Klaus

Although starting out in the hobby with guppies when he was eight,cichlids have been Klaus’s hobby for over 40 years.  Living in Germany, at the age of 20, his interest turned to cichlids and he joined the DCG (German Cichlid Association) and was permanently hooked.  He was forced to sell all his fish and equipment…

Read More