The Nordic Discus Society will hold their 2nd International Discus Championships in the excellent located city of Malmö, in southern Sweden with easy access for all Europeans and international travellers. Heiko Bleher has been invited to give lectures during this, what for sure will be the greatest Championship and ornamental fish event ever to take place in the history of Scandinavia. No one should miss it.
The largest annual Chinese Ornamental Fish and Aquarium Exhibition and Conference will take place for the 5th time in Shanghai 15-17 October, 2010. Heiko Bleher was invited again to participate and give lectures. For the Public Seminars famous experts from around the world have invited to give lectures focused on fish breeding and disease prevention and cure.
The largest bi-annual Aquarium Fish Exhibition and Conference in Asia will take place for the 3rd. time in 2010 unter the fantastic Twin-Towers. Already the 2nd one, 20-23 November 2008, where Heiko was also invited to lecture and judge 270 discus fishes, attracted 14,392 vistors, including 1,494 trade buyers. In 2008 people came from 11 countries and in 2010 it will attract even more as Aqua Fair has become probably the largest aquaria and ornamental fish exhibition & conference in Asia today.
Mario Trioli from the Italian Company SHG and Tropical Aquarium in Sestu, Sardinia, have invited Heiko Bleher to hold 4 seminars on October 10th, 2010. It is a full Sunday programme with such topics as The Aquarium Hobby around the World, Past, Present and Future; How do Fishes live in Nature and which is the best way to apply it to the Aquarium; Wild Discus vs. Captive Breed Discus; Aquarium Plants in Nature & in Aquaria and much more. Rosario Curcio will present the exciting new DISCUS ANNUAL 2010...
In October 2010 also the 13. Zierfische & Aquarium (Ornamental Fishes & Aquarium) will take place again in Duisburg, Germany, with the participation of Aquapress Publishers and Heiko Bleher...
In Duisburg, Germany, will be held again, for the 8. time since 1996, the largest Discus Championship known and Heiko Bleher, who helped to build it up from the very begin, will be present again with Aquapress Publishers with new publications and lectures.
The First International Aquaristic and Discus Fair will take place in Naples, Italy from 23-26 September 2010. Including the International Discus Championship with worldwide participation. There will be 200 Discus in competition from around the globe judged by an International Jury, from Poland, U.S.A., Russia, Turkey, Germany, Singapore, China, Malaysia and Italy, including Heiko Bleher. And Heiko Bleher will present also several lectures and Seminars. This worldwide unique event is not to be missed by anyone who is interested in ornamental fishes and aquariums, and for sure not by anyone who loves discus – only the best Discus from around the world will be displayed and judged in 12 categories.
Heiko Bleher has been invited by Discusowl Hikari Ikeda, to hold seminars during three days, in Nagoya and in Tokyo, Japan. The schedule is for the three day seminars is from 9:00 to 17:00 each day. In Nagoya the seminar is held at the NCA (Nagoya Communication Arts) School for their students.
The great group of aquarists from Italy’s beautiful Salentino region in southern in the Circolo Cittadino (Centro Storico – historic center) in Lecce, had invited Heiko Bleher for two seminars on how to collect 400 Green Discus and details of the 9 different angelfish species and forms in South America. It took place during their fantastic bi-annual event of the Mediterranean Discus such as the last
one where over 30,000 visited the exhibition and championships in this beautiful old Italian town...
Saeed Asadi, owner of a very well known wholesale and retail Aquarium Picasso company in Shiraz, Iran, had invited Heiko Bleher together with the Fars Fisheries of the Fars region in Iran, to hold the 1st International Seminar of Ornamental Fishes. It was the very first event of such a kind in Iran and its coordination extreme well done – to perfection (see next pages). Ornamental fish wholesalers, pet shop owners and fisheries people as well as aquarists from all over Iran came and where eager to learn more about the most beautiful hobby in the world during Heiko’s 10 seminars. In Iran there are more then 4000 aquarium shops which do not have any other pet, probably one of the largest aquarium–loving countries on earth…