Name - Graham Hesketh

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Location - Runcorn, Cheshire

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Fishroom location - Outside in the rear Garden, a brick building. 

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Speciality - Discus

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Notes - Graham is one of my close friends, living around the corner from me we spend a lot of time in each others fishrooms, enjoy a cup of tea and a chat! We travel to our fishclub (Preston and District aquarist society) together and share similar interests in fish. 
 I have only known Graham for 3-4 years but it has been a pleasure to watch his hobby grow from one large display tank in the living room of his well maintained house to moving outside and converting a garden shed into a lovely fishroom. 
 Graham specializes in breeding Discus and has a wonderful collection of domestic forms, many are wild types and most are beautiful fish, he has encountered many setbacks in the past few years, especially parasite issues that plague the Discus hobby, Graham has a wonderful experimental mind and working with a microscope has methodically and professionally analyzed his fish, their parasites (Gill flukes predominately) and worked hard to understand the parasites involved, their life cycles and has all but eradicated them from his fish stocks, he is close to being 100% successful and his fish certainly show the benefit of his hard work! Fry losses have been reduced to zero and his stock grow fast and are maintained very well indeed! As well as the Discus, Graham has started to work with other species and has good success in breeding various Corydoras and Rainbowfish.

 It has been a pleasure to watch this fishroom develop into what it is today and i am glad to be able to share this with you here on my website.