Club meeting - January 2011

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Gary has been keeping fish since he was 10. In the fall of 1987 he started the Rainbowfish Study Group of North America (RSG). In 2002, Gary imported eight new rainbowfish into North America from the world explorer, Heiko Bleher, including the Millennium, the Zigzag, and the Dwarf Parva rainbowfish. In 2003, he made his second trip to Australia and spent time collecting fish. In 2005, Gary took a rainbowfish collectors' dream trip – collecting in Papua, the western portion of New Guinea. He made another trip back in 2008 and brought back rainbowfish that have never been seen in the hobby, including Chilatherina alleni. Gary is currently running over 90 tanks and keeping over 65 species and locations of rainbowfish and blue-eyes.