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Re: Age in the Killifish Hobby

I think that a lot of people don't become focused on something like keeping 
killifish until they're over 30. Like others on this list, I started keeping 
fish when I was about 10, and belonged to the AKA when I was 14 in 1967-68. 
I had no success with the fish (Aphyosemions in this case) and dropped 
killies for a while. But I always kept fish off and on, going to college and 
then playing in bands and generally joining the revolution. I think I was 
the only aquarist in a punk band in Boston in the late 70s/early 80s. It was 
my interest in fish and environmental issues that drew me back to graduate 
school in the 80s, and then I started keeping and collecting killifish 
again. I guess I had to get out the rock and rolls first...

--Bruce Stallsmith
Huntsville, AL

>Hi,
>
>I think hobbies like this one, tend to draw an older crowd because as we
>get older we get a little more time. I can't speak for everyone else, and I
>don't have any kids, but the older you get the chances of having a little
>more time to tend to hobbies like this increases and also money to spend on
>these hobbies. The gen x crowd will show up eventually and become the
>crusty old farts like the rest of us today ( is my hair really that grey?),
>where discussions of bs hatches (target unveiled) are more prominent than
>tee-ball games. Also as when one gets a little older there is a little more
>spare cash to devote to going to conventions and be with the other old
>coots, new water changing gizmos, and the latest and greatest state of the
>art foam filters. Then there is the smaller fringe group that appears at
>any age. (guess I resemble that remark). In summary I think there will
>always be a core of people as long as there is desire to breed and exchange
>killies and to bs about them.
>
>Cheers,
>Alan

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