Ken Davis

I started keeping fish when I was 6 years old, catching introduced exotics in the creek behind my house when we lived in Tampa, mostly livebearers, but it was a start. Little did I know where this would lead!

I don't think there has ever been a time in the last 42 years when I did not have fish. I keep a variety of cichlids and livebearers, but my love is discus, I got my first discus in 1978 and just keeping them alive back then was the challenge. My first successful spawn was in 1982 with some of those new Wattley Turquoise and I've been hooked ever since.

I love to breed fish and have spawned 100's of species, but my goal is a successful spawn of heckel's and raising the fry. Still working on that one. LOL

I've owned a retail Pet store, wholesale distributor, and fish hatchery. I've been the President of the Atlanta Area Aquarium Association since 1998, was elected to the first of 4 terms to the ACA BOT in 1998 and served as Chairman in 1999 and 2004. In 2001 I went with Bing Seto to Asia for a two week tour of Asian fishfarms and the international discus show in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia and the Aquarama in Singapore. WOW what a trip. This past May I went with Rusty Wessel on a collecting trip to Honduras, boy this hobby just gets more fun, now I'm planning collecting trips to Mexico and back to Honduras this spring.

I've enjoyed all aspects of the hobby from meeting great people, going to shows and conventions, speaking for clubs, breeding new fish, collecting in the wilds of exotic places! Keeps me busy and off the streets.

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