Bio for Gary Lange…

Gary is a research biochemist for Pfizer in St. Louis. He has been keeping fish since he was 10 and has been associated with the organized hobby for the last 23 years. He is a member of the Missouri Aquarium Society (MASI) and has held various positions including '93 show chairman for a show that saw over 5,000 visitors. He is a grand master breeder in MASI, (one of only twelve in the history of the club), and has taken the coveted "Best Fish In Show" on four different occasions, twice with rainbowfish.

In the fall of 1987 he started the Rainbowfish Study Group of North America (RSG). He started in fish photography mainly because there weren't many quality pictures of his beloved rainbowfish. He has had his pictures published in FAMA, TFH and AFM.

In ‘02 he imported ten brand new rainbowfish from the world explorer, Heiko Bleher. Included in this new list is the Millennium Rainbowfish, Chilatherina fasciata “Orange”, TheZigzag rainbowfish, Batanta Island rainbowfish and the mini-sized Melanotaenia parva. Last year he made another trip down under and did a bit of collecting while there.

He is currently running about 80 tanks and keeping about 30 varieties of rainbows and blue-eyes. You can get more information on rainbowfish at the RSG's website: www.rainbowfishes.org

Some of Gary's photography of Rainbowfishes…

C. bleheri [back to top]

Chilatherina fasciata "orange" [back to top]

Batanta Island [back to top]

Millennium Rainbowfish [back to top]

Melantotaenia parva [back to top]