We are pleased to announce the following special guests attending the British Discus Show 2009!

Andrew Soh

Andrew is a world renowned author and breeder of discus and many other fishes. Andrew is the author of the best selling books "Discus the Naked Truth" and "Discus Problems and Solutions"

Andrew will be giving a talk on "Creating Designer Discus". Andrew will also be acting as one of our senior judges again.

Jörg Stendker

Jörg's hobby became full time in the 80s and the current company Discus Zucht Stendker Ltd. was launched by the brothers in 1998. They have over 400 breeding pairs in more than 1,000 tanks. At anytime they have around 80,000 young discus.

Visit Diskus Zucht Stendker Ltd. website at http://www.diskuszucht-stendker.de

Jörg will be giving a lecture entitled "Diskuszucht Stendker from beginning to now", and will also be judging.

Ralf Battenberg

Unfortunately due to ill health Ralf is not able to make it to the show.

Ralf has kept discus fish for many years and is the owner of the very popular shop Discus-Special in Düsseldorf. This is both wholesale and retail and Ralf has both wild caught discus and domestic bred discus available. Ralf has won many prizes at Duisburg in Germany at their biennial Discus Championship.

Visit Ralf's website in German at http://www.diskus-special.de/ or in English translated using Google translate.

Jeffrey Tan

Jeffrey Tan was born in Johor Bahru, Malaysia just outside Singapore and first started to keep discus in 1977 when he was aged just 11 after being given some discus as a present by his father.

He first started to breed discus in 1987 when a student at the university in Penang. His 22 years of breeding experience have stood him in good stead to become one of Malaysia’s top discus judges.

Jeffrey had a highly successful spell as president of the Discus Society Malaysia from 2003 to 2007 where he presided over quite a few discus shows.

Discus shows that Jeffrey has been a judge in include:

1. AOFU 2004 Taiwan (Association of Fish Union)
2. ADA International Discus Championship 2004 ( Australia Discus Association)
3. Hikari Discus Show 2005 (China Hilkari)
4. UKDA Discus Show 2005 (UK)
5. TDA 2005 (Taiwan Discus Association)
6. AQUARIA 2006 (China CPIS international fish exhibition)
7. Duisburg Diskus Championat 2006 (Germany)
8. Mediterranean International Discus Contest 2007 (Italy)
9. Shanghai International fish show (China)

Jeffrey is currently running an Arowana Farm, a Stingray Farm and a 20 hectare Pitaya [red pulp] Cactus fruit farm.

Jeffrey will be giving a lecture and will also be judging.

Dr Peter Burgess

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.

Dr Peter Burgess will be giving his lecture on Sunday about "Parasites of discus and other fish"