Gina Sandford writes regularly for Aquarist and Pondkeeper, Fishkeeping Answers and Practical Fishkeeping magazines. She has been Secretary and Editor to the Catfish Association of Great Britain and lectures widely on tropical fishes. Mary Bailey has kept fishes for many years and has served on the committee of the British Cichlid Association since 1982. She regularly contributes to fishkeeping magazines and books, and was voted "Practical Fishkeeping Favourite Fishkeeping Writer, 1994".