Special Guests

By popular demand Andrew Soh was again in attendance at the show. Andrew is a world renowned author and breeder of discus and many other fishes.

In addition Andrew was joined by a number of special guests from the discus world.

Jörg Stendker - Jörg along with his brother Volker run the largest discus hatchery in Europe. The hatchery was founded over forty years ago by their father Heinz with just four discus. Today there are four fish houses with around 1,000 tanks in each.

Jeffrey Tan - Jeffrey has been breeding discus since 1987 and has had discus farms where he has exported fish from Ipoh, Malaysia worldwide. Jeffrey was President of the Discus Society Malaysia from 2003 to 2007.

Dr Peter Burgess is an experienced aquarium hobbyist and fish health scientist. He has written over 300 articles and five books on fish health and is a visiting lecturer in Aquarium Sciences and Conservation at Plymouth University.  Among his other roles, Peter is senior consultant to the Mars FishCare business and regularly runs fish health & husbandry courses for aquarists, fish scientists and vets.

More information about our guests can be found on our Special Guest page.