Tony Silva has been an aquarist for nearly 40 years. He has been involved with discus for almost 35 years. During this time, Tony has collected and studied discus in their habitat in Brazil, Peru and Colombia and even discovered an introduced population in Ecuador. He has visited countries from Europe to Australia and Asia to Morocco to visit discus breeders. He has met and learned from all the old time discus exporters, including the now forgotten Rafael Wandurraga and Mike Tsalikis of Colombia and Willi Schwartz of Brazil. He obtained discus as a youngster from Jack Wattley and learned to raise the fry artificially from Harry Matson and Carol Friswold, the latter the pioneer of raising discus artificially on dried egg yolk. Tony is particularly interested in wild discus and still breeds these forms.

Articles by Tony Silva:

Searching for Discus in Peru and Colombia

BELOW: Tony Silva in Indonesia.

BELOW: Tony Silva in Brazil.