Potomac Valley Aquarium Society

Ian Fuller

Born in Birmingham, England in 1946. A toolmaker by trade, and self confessed Corydoras nut by admission.

Ian started keeping tropical fish in 1970 in a small 18-inch aquarium, it was not very long before he had two four-foots and two three-foots set up in the spare room. Over the first two or three years he kept and bred many of the popular fish groups, starting with South American Cichlids, graduating through Barbs, Anabantids and Characins. Although he had kept several species of catfish during this period it wasn't until early in 1973 that I took an active interest in them. From when he bred his first species of Corydoras in 1974, he has been well and truly hooked.

Ian's first fish house took shape in 1977 and was a sectioned off part of his garage, which housed 36 - 18 x 18 x 12 inch tanks. It was then that he started seriously breeding Corydoras, a project that still continues to this day in what is now his third fish house. To date Ian has successfully spawned and raised more than seventy species of Corydoradine Catfish, sixty-seven of these are featured in the form of spawning logs in his book, Breeding Corydoradine Catfish.

Published in 2005, Ian Fuller and Hans-Georg Evers co-authored a new book entitled, Indentifying Corydoradinae Catfish.

Ian is currently the Chairman of the Catfish Study Group (UK).

Please visit Ian's web site to learn more: http://www.corydorasworld.com