Below you'll find an introduction to some of our members and links to their personal pages where you'll find photos of the types of tanks and fish they keep and perhaps more information about the particular member.
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Bailin Shaw - Co-Founder of the OKCAA in the Summer of 1999. Also co-founded the Dallas-Fort Worth Aquatic Plants Club. Currently in Connecticut. |
| Joe Anderson - Co-Founder of the OKCAA in the Summer of 1999. Former President and WebMaster. Currently running a 55 gallon freshwater planted and a 45 gallon saltwater mini-reef. Main interests are in aquatic plants and soft corals. |
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Mike Dennis - OKCAA Member Since 2001. Keeps an eclectic and always changing seleciton of tanks and fish, from African Rift lake to Native American tanks. Current Treasurer of OKCAA. |
| Dean Hougen - OKCAA Member Since 2001 and active in the aquarium hobby for over a decade and a half. In 1993, he founded the South American Cichlid Study Group,
and was the first editor of its journal "ACARA" amd has written numerous articles for this and other hobby publications, including our own, as well as given presentations on both a local and national level. |
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Brian Carson - OKCAA Member Since 2002. Current Vice President. Avid breeder in his own right. Keeps a wide variety of fish species, all freshwater currently. Club auctioneer and BAP Co-Chair! |
| Cynthia Teague - OKCAA Member Since 2001. An avid catfish fanatic and long-time aquarium enthusiast. Has been invovlved in many different associations over the last decade. |
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Gerald Griffin - Current President and Presentation Chair. Member Since 2003. Enthusiastic breeder and keeper of a large variety of fish. A primary interest in live bearers and anabantoids - especially bettas. Resident Megalomaniac and Club Casanova! |
| Kelly Higgins - OKCAA Member Since 2001 and former Vice President. Keeps both salt and fresh water species, though "currently" limiting himself to two small tanks. His main interests currently are South American Dwarf Cichlids and Freshwater Planted Aquariums. |
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Lee Morey - OKCAA Member Since 2003 and former MASNA Vice President. Avid Do-It-Yourself'er. He builds his own filtration and skimmer equipment. Recently spawned and raised the Red Saddleback Clown Anemonefish!!. |
| Rick Niles - OKCAA Member Since 2001. Keeping freshwater planted aquariums. |
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Sheryl Coley - OKCAA Member Since 2005. Founded original Saltwater club in OKC in 1992. Keeping a 58 gal planted and 30 gal Tanganyikan currently. |
| April Walters - OKCAA Member Since 2004. April is currently keeping 10 planted tanks stocked with African cichlids (both Tang & Malawi), several different strains of fancy guppies, mystery snails, red cherry shrimp, betta splendens, bristle-nosed plecos and misc. other fun stuff. |
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Tom & Kristina Pepper - OKCAA Members Since 2003. Father and Daughter members. Both were brand new to aquarium hobby when they started. They keep a salt water aquarium and are beginning to get into corals. |
| Dawn Cook - OKCAA Member Since 2004. Successfully breeding cherry shrimp. Big fan of snails too. |
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Betty Harris - OKCAA Member Since 2004. OKAA Webmaster. Currently running several Walsted style Low-tech planted tanks, is being overrun with Endler's Livebearers and is an avid goldfish keeper too! |
| Tony Parker - OKCAA Member Since 2003. Currently running both a Fish Only with Live Rock (FOWLR) Salt tank and Fish Only FW tank. |
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Howard Sarrington - OKCAA Member Since 2003. Keeps a freshwater species and planted aquariums. Current OKCAA Public Relations coordinator. |
| Chris Jean - OKCAA Member Since 2005 . |
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Kyle and Monica Osterholt - OKCAA Members Since 2004. Monica is our current Secretary. Both keep a wide and ever increasing variety of species. All fresh currently. |
| Richard Atwood - OKCAA Member Since 2004. Avid Breeder and co-chair of BAP Committee. Big Time Killifish breeder and Dr. Pepper fan! |
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Earl Blewett - OKCAA Member Since 2004. Avid plant enthusiast and killifish breeder. Drives all the way from Tulsa each month. |
| Darrell Amos - OKCAA Member Since 2005. Keeping various cichlid species mainly. |
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Bill Mitchell - OKCAA Member Since 2005. |
| Pat Idleman - OKCAA Member Since 2004. Winner of our 2004 Bowl Show w/ a peach oranda.. |
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Steve Bryan - OKCAA Member Since 2005. |
| Chad Tompkins - OKCAA Member Since 2007. |
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