Dick Au’s fascination with Discus began as a child living close to several ornamental fish farms in Hong Kong. Each day after school, he would spend hours at a farm watching an only pair of brown Discus nursing fry under a huge Amazon sword plant. Since then, Dick had never been without Discus, all through college, raising a family and retired from a career in the computer software industry. With decades of uninterrupted fish keeping, he accumulated lots of invaluable practical knowledge which he generously shares. As a veteran speaker and show judge, Dick has given lectures at many aquarium societies in North America, at American Cichlids Association and North American Discus Association conventions as well as at international shows such as Aquarama in Singapore. Dick has written many articles for various publications and authored two books on Discus – “The Back to Nature Guide to Discus”, and “Trophy Discus – the art of selecting, grooming, and showing discus”.