![]() ![]() Once virtually unknown, goldfish hobbyists everywhere are now dying to get their hands on them. He also loves attending, judging, and competing in Goldfish and Koi Shows across the USA.There’s a breed of goldfish that’s sweeping the globe with popularity: it’s the Butterfly goldfish. On the weekends he enjoys gardening and time outdoors tending to his urban mini farm. Joshua is an Area Manager for Amazon Air, at the worlds largest Amazon Air Hub in Hebron, KY. Joshua moved to Cincinnati in 2018 and has expanded his aquatic hobby to include koi and other tropical fish. He became a TGC Certified Goldfish Judge in 2016. He was a key player in the early stages of TGC, hosting educational events, shows, fundraisers, and membership drives. ![]() ![]() He is the current Treasurer & Judging and Standards Chair, immediate past President, former Vice President, Regional Board Member and Membership Chair of The Goldfish Council (TGC). Joshua has also joined a few other select breeders around North America in the Blue Egg Phoenix preservation project. He jumped in head first with a breeding program concentrating on Butterfly Telescope and has expanded his focus to other varieties like Eggfish, Frogheads, Lionheads, and Fantails. His interest sparked his thirst for knowledge about the fancy, which brought him to where he is today. His livestock won numerous championship titles in competitions across the USA.Īs an adult he was searching for a hobby involving animals that he could raise living in a city high-rise condominium (St Petersburg, Fl). Joshua’s involvement with 4-H and the Future Farmers of America led him down the path of raising, breeding, and selling many different types of animals including rabbits, dairy goats, swine, poultry, cattle, pigeons, and sheep. Joshua McWilliams grew up in sunny Marion County Florida with a love for animals, he even won his first goldfish at a fair that lived 10+ years. Ted is also the creator & organizer of the Canadian Goldfish Virtual Competition event, an annual online goldfish show for Canadians. Ted is the founder & organizer of the Canadian Goldfish Symposium event which first debuted in Breslau, Ontario Canada (hosted by Andrew Bridgemohan/The Fish Sempai) back in June 2019. It is not uncommon for Ted to fly to goldfish shows or events across North America, generously sharing his decades of knowledge and experience on all things goldfish. Ted is the first Canadian to serve in the role of President at The Goldfish Council. In 2016, he joined The Goldfish Council as a board member representing Canada. Ted has been a member of the Goldfish Society of America, the American Goldfish Association and the Goldfish Society of Great Britain. He has travelled extensively across Canada and has lived in Toronto, Mississauga, Guelph, Ottawa and Calgary. They frequently exchange rare breeding stock between themselves and with others across Canada.īorn and raised in Canada, Ted currently resides in Burlington, Ontario. Ted’s cousin, Billy Tai, is also among the top goldfish breeders in North America. Over the past few years, he has been working on creating a unique goldfish for Canadians called the “Canakin”, which is a red & white goldfish with a maple leaf shaped tail. Ted currently keeps tosakin, jikin, various oranda, side-view ranchu, lionhead, bubble-eye, Bristol shubunkin and crown pearlscale goldfish. He has kept virtually all colours and breeds of goldfish. ![]() Ted Tai, one of the senior goldfish hobbyist and mentor to many in North America, has been breeding and raising goldfish for over 40 years. Other interests include fishing, Chestnut farming, bee keeping, He has been a club member for overģ0 years. Greater Cincinnati Aquarium Society, (GCAS). Gary was a co-chairman of the Goldfish Society ofĪmerica, (GFSA), and a member of the American Goldfish Association, (AGA).īorn and still lives in Cincinnati, Ohio where he continues to be a member of the He was the first President and founding member of The Goldfish Council, aĥ01(c)3 a non-profit charity. Gary has brought SteamedĮggs into the mainstream for feeding juvenile and adult fish. Numerous (>15) outdoor ponds and seasonal tubs. His hobby is best described as very large with 70 - 90 indoors tanks and tubs, and Philadelphia Veiltails, English Veiltails, Bristol Shubunkins, and Broadtail Moors. Has maintained several rare lines for decades. Over years he has bred over twenty varieties of goldfish and Gary started in the aquarium hobby in the mid 1960’s and moved almostĮxclusively into goldfish in the 1980’s after breeding livebearers, South AmericanĪnd African Cichlids. His professional career was in the environmental field and centeredĪround water quality, air quality, bioremediation, research and development, and Gary Hater is a former professional biologist with a bachelors and a master’sĭegree. ![]()
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