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! My parents bought me a 10 gallon tank to keep my catch is as I was proliferating little containers all over my bedroom full of aquatic creatures. Tanks seem to multiple as easily as guppies as I now have about 600! 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 from Africa, Central and South America and many wild type and fancy 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 current goal is a
successful spawn of heckel discus and raising the fry. Still working on that one.
LOL

I've owned a retail pet store, wholesale distributor, and currently have a 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 of the Board in 1999 and 2004. I was also elected to the Board of Directors of The North American Discus Association in 2005 and I've belonged to the American Livebearer Association for many years.

In 2001, I went with a group of breeders and importers, organized by Bing Seto, to Asia for a two week tour of Asian fish farms and the international discus show in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and the Aquarama in Singapore. WOW what a trip. We visited Hong Kong, Bangkok, Saigon, Kuala Lumpur, Penang and Singapore.

The past five years I have gone on collecting trips to Honduras, Mexico and Uruguay, seeing how the fish live in the wild. Collecting them and bringing them back with the chance to introduce new fish and new bloodlines to the hobby is my main focus now.

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