[Killietalk] "Setting the hook"

[Pjeversman at aol_com]

My senior year of undergrad at Indiana University( 70-71) my roommates and  I 
bought a 15 gal tank and put a few of the usual suspects in it.  However,  
that was enough to keep me interested in fish to the present,  I kept a  tank 
through dental school in Indianapolis, and in those days the LFS always had  
something new and interesting.  I think that it was in one of the old Tetra  
pamphlets that I first saw a killie.  It was a gardneri and had more color  than I 
had ever seen in a fish before. Around 1973 I actually saw a few gardneri  in 
a shop called The Reef.  I really couldn't afford them , but I kept  going 
back to look at them until I had convinced myself that I needed  them.  
Unfortunately, all that I had to feed them was frozen BS, which they  wouldn't take.  
After I got out of school, I switched to saltwater and kept  them until the 
kids started to throw toys into the tank.  I put the tank  away for about 10 
years and then resurrected it again as a reef tank.  It  was fun, but the salt 
was a mess.
Somehow I stumbled onto the AKA website and got a few bags of eggs from Bob  
Morenski.  The N. guentheri got me hooked.  I got more fish from the  BNL and 
from the local club, and now I have to spend my time feeding fish  instead of 
writing about it.
 
Philip J.  Eversman D.D.S.
9052 Log Run Drive South 
Indianapolis, In. 46234
Ph.  317 298-4063 
pjeversman at aol_com
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