Heiko Bleher on "Sounds Fishy to Me."

[Coryologist]

Greetings. AquaRadio.net is proud to announce that Mr. Heiko Bleher will be this week's guest speakers on "Sounds Fishy to Me." This is Part 1 of a 2 part broadcast.

The follwing is a small section of Heiko's illustrious biodraphy, which my be found in its entirety on his web site, here: http://www.aquapress-bleher.com/index.p ... &Itemid=49

Until 1997 from Frankfurt he supplied wholesalers world-wide with new species, including new discus variants every year, mostly from his own discoveries. Between 1965 and 1997, besides introducing most of the wild discus variants into the hobby – directly or by means of the breeders – he introduced more than 4,000 aquarium fish species he had discovered (or re-discovered). This includes the variants such as “Blue-headed Heckel”, “Alenquer”, “Red-spotted greens” from the “Coari” and “Japurá” regions and the famous “Rio Içá” discus, and also rainbowfishes such as Melanotaenia boesemani, M. lacustris and M. praecox (most probably now one of the most sold aquarium fishes), angels such as Pterophyllum altum, dwarfs such as Nanochromis nudiceps and Steatocranus bleheri or Channa bleheri.

Among other fishes attributable to Heiko’s explorations are also many loricariids (as many as 800, at the time of printing), new Corydoras species, almost countless tetras and dwarf cichlids from West Africa and South America, knife fishes, puffers and flounders. One of his best-known discoveries was the first freshwater sawfish known, in 1982, in a remote northern Australian lake. For his contributions to the hobby Heiko was elected Man of the Year in England in 1993, and later in France. In 2009 he was elected Scientist of the year (2008) for his world-wide contribution to ichthyology by CAOAC – an award given out only 3 times in their 50 years of existance. He holds many other titles and has met kings, presidents, ambassadors and senators. He is happiest and at his most relaxed away from it all when deep in the jungle searching for rare or new fishes.
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This is an amazing link,I had no idea AquaRadio existed,I really enjoyed the Heiko Bleher interveiw and I'm sure I will enjoy part 2 even more,he is a fascinating man.

Aquapress Bleher is also a great site and I will be listening in on AquaRadio a lot,lot more it is very enjoyable,when I have the room to myself I open up a window so I can listen while using the laptop.