Rob Crosby

Rob Crosby is a past TGC President, and resides in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, where he maintains his fish hobby in a converted two car garage. His interests are focused on Top View Ranchu, Azumanishiki, and Telescopes. Rob has been keeping and breeding goldfish continuously for the past 18 years. He has also kept and bred many tropical species including Angelfish, guppies, killifish, rainbows, corys and others. As a youngster, Rob was involved in 4H, and raised Dutch Rabbits and Leghorn Chickens. He particularly enjoyed the challenge of breeding his animals to meet a breed standard. Rob later found that despite the time and space constraints of a career, and urban living, he could still find the same satisfaction raising goldfish in his basement that he once had raising rabbits and chickens the backyard.

Rob earned a degree in Biology with a minor in Animal Science, and recently retired from a career in Biotechnology, where he specialized as a sales and marketing representative in the Molecular Biology/Genetics area.  His knowledge of molecular genetics has allowed him to gain insights into the unusual physical diversity found among goldfish, sound strategies for improving a strain, and new theories about their evolutionary background.

When he is not working in his fish room, he also enjoys spending time with his partner Ron and their Whippet dog, Jesse, as well as oil painting, and working as a part time DJ.