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Re: [Killietalk] "Setting the hook"
Dear FishFolk,
A funny story, and true, I swear.
We got our first aquarium in 1970 (or 69) Definitely got the second tank in
1970 as my mother destroyed the stand for it last week. The glass tank is
still good.
The first tank had guppies. It's secret purpose was to teach my brother and
myself about reproduction. One day my grandmother asked us what did the fish
teach us about having babies. I (or my brother) said, "Sometimes the Mommy
eats the babies". My retold this story years later and could barely stand up
she was laughing so hard.
BTW, I have Psuedomugil gertrudi, a nice, small rainbowfish breeding in my
original, steel-framed 5 gallon tank.
Earl
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Earl Blewett Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Microbiology
Dept. of Biochemistry and Microbiology
Oklahoma State University
Center for Health Sciences
College of Osteopathic Medicine
1111 W 17 St. Tulsa, OK 74107
Email: micro at earlblewett_net
Office: (918) 561-8405
FAX: (918) 561-8414
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From: killietalk-bounces at aka_org [mailto:killietalk-bounces at aka_org] On
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Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2005 2:14 PM
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Subject: [Killietalk] "Setting the hook"
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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