About the Author

Frank G Anderson has been keeping aquarum fish off and on for some 30 years, starting, as many of us did, with a terrapin. He migrated to goldfish, stopped keeping fish for a while, then when moving to Thailand in the mid-1960s, started keeping livebearers and egglayers such as discus, mollies, swordtails, platys, oscars, angels, arowanas, etc. His Thai activities came to an end in 1973 when he moved with his family to Iran. For the four year period in Iran, he was not able to keep tropical fish, but soon corrected that when he moved, again with his family, to Saudi Arabia in 1977. Frank lived there for the next nineteen years, and while working for the Government Affairs organization of the Arabian American Oil Company, bred and reared discus and various community tank freshwater fish, as well as editing a monthly aquarium club newsletter, Driftwood. He also began writing regularly for Freshwater & Marine Aquarium magazine (FAMA), doing two monthly columns, Discus Beat and Beginner's Luck (now moved to Aquarium.Net), and authoring book reviews. FAMA also published Frank's book, ....And Still King, a guide to successful discus keeping.

While keeping his own fish, Frank G. Anderson has spent considerable time and effort in mass-producing information of use to tropical fish hobbyists, trying to get the word out about good tropical fish husbandry, and providing hints on how to avoid expensive and time-consuming pitfalls in the hobby. Of course, some of this writing has had some impact on the level of Frank's own fishkeeping. He is satisfied, though, he says, in knowing that other hobbyists are able to take advantage of his own experience, and that of others, in coming into the hobby better equipped, or coming back in better able to handle past challenges. Frank will try to answer all his E-mail, and invites readers to write to him at ethics@loxinfo.co.th

"NetPets® Exclusive" Articles Specialty Species Can Cause Special Problems Basics of Aquarium Keeping - A Series