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[k8cz at att_net (Tom Isgro)]

Reading Dave Korans account of how he became interested in killies and joined the AKA spawned my own memories of how I became interested.

My lovely wife Rita and I had been keeping tropical community tanks since our marriage in 1970 (God that seems like a lifetime ago) and I had become interested in N.rachovi from pictures I had seen in an old general aquarium book by William T. Innes. I still have it by the way.  At any rate when I quit smoking in '77 I realized I had considerably more money to spend since I dropped a two pack a day habit that cost about $10 out of our weekly budget.

There was a LFS nearby that I used to hang out in when the OL was working nights (yeh I know, get a life) but he never did have anykillies and didn't know where to get them, but he did put me in touch with a local club here in town.  At my first meeting I introduced myself and stated simply that I was a general aquarist but had some interest in killies.  At that the president at the time, took a bag of dirt he had brought destined for the monthly $1 auction and tossed it to me with instructions to see him after the meeting to discuss haw to get instant fish from the bag.

After a quick primer on hatching brine shrimp and eggs, I went to the local LFS and bought a vial of BS cysts and went home and set up my hatching container.  Wet the eggs and in 24 hours I had about 100 Argentine pearlfish.  Raised several pair and finally joined the AKA.

At that time, the AKA Convention was just a couple of months away in beautiful Downtown Cincinnati (actually Sharonville, Ohio) and I hooked up with a then highly active Greater Cincinnati KA.  The rest is history until I took a break from the hobby for a time.

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Tom Isgro
Hamilton, OH
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