Hellweg, Mike
Mike has been keeping fish all of his life and breeding fish since he was 9 years old. Over the past 40 years he has specialized in miniature fishes, working with fishes that most other hobbyists overlook. He has bred most of the known Gourami species, over half of the known Betta species, several species…
Read MoreSmolowitz, D.V.M., Roxanne
Dr. Roxanne Smolowitz graduated from Purdue University, School of Veterinary Medicine in 1981. She finished a residency in pathology at Angell Memorial Animal Hospital, Boston, MA, in 1984 and a Bang Fellowship at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in 1987 where she studied hemocytic leukemia in soft shell clams. From 1987 to 1989, she was…
Read MoreMcKeighen, Jr., Ken
Ken McKeighen Jr. fondly remembers his first fish he purchased when he was 10 years old, a coffee can full of bait minnows he purchased for 10 cents. He was 10 when he won his first art contest, first place with an ice cream social poster at his elementary school. He was 11 when he…
Read MorePierce, 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…
Read MoreBodrock, Eric
Eric Bodrock, 57, is the owner of All Oddball Aquatics, a tropical fish hatchery and independent online retailer located just south of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Along with his fiancé, Regina Spotti, they currently maintain about 300 aquariums in their home based hatchery where they work with a wide range of fish species. Eric has been…
Read MoreLucanus, Oliver
Oliver Lucanus, explorer, videographer, fish importer and exporter, and one of the world’s leading experts on the Xingu and it’s ecology and endemic fish, speaks about the history and the future of this amazing and threatened river system in South America. Programs: The Xingu: Past, Present, and Future Discus in their Home Waters Keeping and…
Read MoreVoigt, Emily
SUPER CICHLIDS is the Speaker Sponsor of Emily Voigt at the 2018 Convention Emily Voigt is a journalist specializing in science and culture. Her stories have appeared in the New York Times, OnEarth, Mother Jones, and Isotope. The recipient of a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship, she holds degrees in English literature and journalism from Columbia…
Read MoreSherman, Paul
Programs: Mudskippers Brackish Water Aquariums Brackish Fish Saltwater Cichlids in a Community Setting Paludariums, Ripariums, and Vivariums Mudskippers & Other Brackish Fish
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 MoreMaxwell, Eric
Programs: Fish Diversity of New York Adventures in Fish
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