by Sven Kessel | 29.09.2019
I have been the treasurer of the Catfish Study Group for the last 13 years, and on the committee for 32 years. I have been keeping and breeding Ancistrus sp. for approximately 40 years amongst other Loricariidae. Like many aquarists I dreamed of one day visiting South...
by Andreas Tanke | 22.03.2019
I’ve been keeping fishes as a hobbyist for close on thirty years, but it wasn’t until dabbling online in the early 2000s that after I discovered PlanetCatfish, and it was here that I found a group of like-minded and absurdly well-informed catfish...
by Andreas Tanke | 22.03.2019
by Andreas Tanke | 13.07.2017
Andreas Tanke first saw the light of day in Langenhagen close by Hanover, where he was born in 1971. Already as a child, he came into contact with the aquarium hobby through his parents. At about 10 years old he got his first own aquarium and began to gather...
by Andreas Tanke | 13.07.2017
Since his childhood, Hans Evers has been an enthusiastic aquarist and known by many other aquarists through his publications and lectures. Actually more at home in the regions of South America, in recent years he has also increasingly travelled the various countries...
by Andreas Tanke | 13.07.2017
Ingo Seidel was born in 1967 in Delmenhorst in the Northern German federal state Niedersachsen. Since his earliest youth he was interested in everything that was scuttling, flying and swimming outside. At the age of ten years he received his first fish tank from his...
by Andreas Tanke | 13.07.2017
Leandro Sousa was born in 1978 in São Paulo, Brazil. At the age of nine years he used his mother´s cooking pots to keep a couple of livebearers (Xiphophorus hellerii) and figured out it was neither good for the fishes nor for the happiness of his mother. Since then,...
