Hobbies:
● aquaristics
● terraristics
● photographing
● traveling
● handicrafts
● music
● reading
Experience:
● kept a lot of different animals since young age, keeping aquariums since I was 17 years old
● owner of an aquarium shop in Vianen, the Netherlands from 2015 till 2020
● zookeeper aquarium department in the natural history museum 'Haus der Natur' in Salzburg, Austria
● Expedition "Longum iter ad pisces", SiluCha Bolivia 2023
● Expedition "Centum annis post, in vestigiis Pearson", SiluCha Bolivia 2024
Club-member:
● IG BSSW e.V
● CSG (Catfish Study Group)
● Amazonas magazine
● volunteer at Vivarium 2022 - 2023 - 2024 - 2025
Written articles:
● IG BSSW e.V 2/2021 - (Volume 33) "Spatuloricaria caquetae: Three years, and now we are getting started!"
● IG BSSW e.V 4/2021 - (Volume 33) "Succesfully breeding Pseudacanthicus spinosus (L160)"
Bred fish species:
● Microgeophagus ramirezi
● Poecilia reticulata
● Neolamprologus brichardi
● Hemichromis bimaculatus
● Pterophyllum scalare
● Symphysodon aequifasciatus "Purus"
● Ancistrus sp.
● Pseudotropheus zebra
● Hypancistrus zebra "L46"
● Hypancistrus sp. "L66"
● Hypancistrus sp. "L201 big spot"
● Peckoltia compta "L134"
● Hypancistrus sp. "L260"
● Hypancistrus sp. "L262"
● Rineloricaria beni
● Loricaria sp. Rio Atabapo
● Hypancistrus sp. "L174"
● Parancistrus aurantiacus
● Xiphophorus hellerii "Yucatán 2"
● Xiphophorus hellerii "Rio Jimba"
● Pseudacanthicus cf. spinosus “L160”
● Ancistrus sp. "Yellow black eye"
● Peckoltia sp. “L377”
Bred other species:
● Epipedobates anthonyi
● Hierodula membranacea
Focus:
● Spatuloricaria caquetae
