H&DAS 75th Birthday Bash and CAOAC Convention Speaker Bio
Regina Spotti
Spawning My Favourite Oddballs, Part ?
Sharing interests with your partner is a wonderful thing, but sometimes that “thing” becomes the butt end of jokes. Unlike her partner, Regina Spotti enjoys plain silver fish and ugly brown catfish. (No, not plecos, REAL catfish!) What piques her interest are the unusual, weird (wonderful) and the species that are not mainstream in our hobby. The ones with odd behaviour and/or odd breeding habits are what she finds intriguing. She’ll be sharing some unusual, seldom kept species and her experiences keeping and breeding some of them.
Sharing interests with your partner is a wonderful thing, but sometimes that “thing” becomes the butt end of jokes. Unlike her partner, Regina Spotti enjoys plain silver fish and ugly brown catfish. (No, not plecos, REAL catfish!) What piques her interest are the unusual, weird (wonderful) and the species that are not mainstream in our hobby. The ones with odd behaviour and/or odd breeding habits are what she finds intriguing. She’ll be sharing some unusual, seldom kept species and her experiences keeping and breeding some of them.
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Regina is an avid nature lover-from creepy-crawlies to wings to fins and everything in between. Her fin addiction began well over 50 years ago with some goldfish she received as “promotional items” at a local grocery store and this sparked her lifelong interest in keeping freshwater tropical fish. She currently maintains about 70 aquariums housing many different species-some rare fish and some new to the hobby. She has achieved Master Breeder status in the Greater Pittsburgh Aquarium Society and enjoys keeping and breeding various freshwater fish from every continent but has found a particular interest in Tetras, Rasboras and Corydoras. Additional ongoing projects with a few different species of “ugly” catfish, most of which have not been reported in captivity, keeps her quest for a new challenge going.
One of her favourite parts of the hobby is sharing knowledge about species that she has worked with. That, and encouraging people to work with some of the more unusual species with an aim towards conservation of species. |
