Gary has been keeping fish since he was 10 and has been associated with the organized hobby for the last 32 years.  He is a member of the Missouri Aquarium Society (MASI) and has held various positions in the club.  He is a grand master breeder in MASI, and has won "Best Fish In Show" on four different occasions, twice with rainbowfish. 

Besides making several trips to Australia to see rainbowfish in the wild he’s also made four trips to Papua, the western portion of the island of New Guinea.  During these travels he’s managed to discover and bring back nine new species of bows and possibly a few more after some meristic analysis.  He is currently running over 90 tanks and keeping over 65 species and locations of rainbowfish and blue-eyes.