Charles Nunziata

Charles Nunziata, BS, MBA, is general manager of a guidance and control system components manufacturer. He has been an active aquarium hobbyist for 40 years, specializing in killifish for 34 of them. He is a Fellow, Life Member, and Distinguished Member of the American Killifish Association and is a long-time member of the British and German Killifish Associations, the North American Native Fishes Association, the Suncoast Killifish Society, and the Tampa Bay Aquarium Society. Charlie has served AKA as BOT chairman, treasurer, and chairman of the Judging Committee. Currently he is a senior AKA show judge, Chairman of the AKA's Killifish Conservation Committee, National Coordinator for the NANFARegional Outreach Program, and Coordinator of NANFA's Central Florida Region. He is Editor of the Suncoast Killifish Affiliate Club newsletter, and has co-authored the Florida Collecting Guide. He has authored and contributed to many of the AKA's programs and procedures, including the current Judging and Conservation programs and has authored many articles published in various killifish journals.

Charles has been the unofficial President of the Suncoast Killifish Society since it's inception in approximately 1998.

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Brian Skidmore

Brian K. Skidmore earned a BS in Biology from the University of South Florida in 1990. He has worked as an Ecologist at King Engineering, a Tampa, Fl civil engineering and consulting firm, for the past 10 years. Brian has been in the aquarium hobby for about 25 years and has a variety of related interests. He currently holds membership in the American Killifish Association, North American Native Fishes Association, Suncoast Killifish Society, International Fancy Guppy Association, Florida Native Plant Society and the Tampa Bay Aquarium Society where he served as president for 2 years. Brian has authored a number of articles for aquarium journals and is co-author of the Florida Collecting Guide. Most recently, several of his photos were published in the July 2003 issue of TFH.

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Bill Shields

Bill Graduated with a BS degree in Biology. Bill worked in many fish stores for years. Uniquely, Bill worked as a breeder of elephants for years in the Tampa, Fl. area before he was grabbed up by the 5-D Fish Farm in Tampa, Fl. 5-D is probably the largest breeder farm in the world. Bill works as the Master Breeder for the entire 5-D Fish Farm. He literally spawns fish to the tune of 4-5 million every year! If it swims Bill can spawn it. He is a truely remarkable person. His dedication to the hobby and business of tropical fish is un-paralled! Tampa Bay is glad to have Bill!

Bill has also been the President of the Tampa Bay Aquarium Society for 2 years and the Vice-President for 4 years and a BOD member on the off years since it's inception in 1992.

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Mike Jacobs
Mike Graduated from Purdue University with a BS in Mathematics and received his Masters Degree in Mathematics Education From the University of South Florida. He began teaching 33 years ago in Indiana at a junior high school. He moved to St. Petersburg, Florida in 1973 and has been a high school mathematics teacher at Lakewood High School ever since. In addition to his teaching duties Mike was the defensive football coach for the Varsity Football team for 11 years and the head Baseball coach for 20 years all at Lakewood High School. In 1994 Mike was chosen to teach in the highly touted Center for Advanced Technologies (CAT Program) housed at Lakewood High School in St. Petersburg, Fl. Approximately 500 of the best rising 9th grade students in Pinellas County make application for the 150 seats that are open in this Computer-Math-Science emphasis high school every year.

Mike has been keeping fish full time since 1963 but has memories of helping his mother do water changes in the home aquarium when he was very young.

Mike's present interest is Apistogrammas and having fun in the fish hobby, but in the past he has done a lot in the hobby. In 1968 he began to keep Saltwater fish and did so for the next 10-12 years. He then revitalized his interest in killifish with the Suncoast Killifish Society here in St. Petersburg, Fl. and now presently spends his time with the SKS and the Tampa group........Tampa Bay Aquarium Society!

Mike has served as President of the Tampa Bay Aquarium Society for 2 years and Vice-President for 2 years and a BOD member for 3 years and has been the Editor of the TBAS newsletter for approximately 4-5 years ( www.tbas1.com ).

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