Greater Pittsburgh Aquarium Society, Inc.

July 2017 GPASI Regular Meeting
Friday July 28th, 2016

Bob Bock:
Description:
In this talk, Bob surveys the cyprinids, a vast group of fishes native to North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. He offers tips on caring for cyprinids in aquaria, reviews field studies on spawning behaviors of North American and European cyprinids, then applies these findings to breeding barbs, danios, rasboras and other cyprinid species in the home aquarium.
 
Bio:
Bob Bock has been collecting and keeping fish since he was 7 years old, when he brought home two mummichog from the Hackensack River Meadowlands of New Jersey. Bob likes writing and speaking about aquarium fish and belongs to all the Washington, D.C. area's freshwater aquarium societies. He is past president of the North American Native Fishes Association and wrote the "Meet the Hobbyist" column of Tropical Fish Hobbyist. Cyprinids are his main interest, but he has also bred sunfish, cichlids, corydoras and brochis, livebearers, loaches, and killifish. When he's not busy in his fishroom, Bob likes collecting native fishes. Every two years, he leads the native fishes  collecting trip for the Potomac Valley Aquarium Society's All Aquarium Catfish Convention.