Re: [Killietalk] "Setting the hook"

[Gary Elson or Mary Frauley <fraulels at videotron_ca>]

Hi,
I didn't make it into killies til the very early 90s, when a local chain 
store had a tank of gardneri. Like everyone else, I had seen pictures and 
had wanted killies, but to no avail.

In Montreal, it took one man to gradually assemble an entire new killie 
club. At every Montreal Aquarium Society for years, longtime AKAer Hans Behr 
has brought one or two species of killie. He never complains when they sell 
for a dollar, or when the Rift lake cichlid crowd roll their eyes and wait 
for the "real" fish to be auctioned. Hans just brings the fish, and someone 
always buys them. When I walked into the club for the first time and saw 
Aphyosemions on the table, it was really exciting. That set the hook.  Hans 
seems to have always quietly gone about making that experience happen for a 
lot of local aquarists.We now have a killie club (Killi-Quebec), and I'd bet 
most of not all of us got our first killies from Hans' relentless 
generosity.

One of my first 2 or 3 killies was Aphyosemion zygaima, which I got around 
1992. I just had my last females die last week (here's hoping there's eggs 
in the java moss). Hans has had a riv since the seventies, and I was aiming 
for that league...

Gary Elson 


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