Site photo pages:
 Aphyosemion

Diapteron

Fundulopanchax

Epiplatys

Nothobranchius

New World Annuals

 Articles:

Automated Water Change System

Use of CPVC overflow fixtures and drip emitters

Beginners Guide to Killies An article on acquiring and maintaining your first killies-conservitive but safe.

Breeding Mop Spawners Epiplatys and Aphyosemion- method I use

Breeding Bottom Spawners - Fundulopanchax method I use

Breeding Diapteron What little I have learned

Species breeding information-general parameters that have worked for me by species

Culture of White Worms Short article on easy culture and of white worms

Water Treatment Information on Reverse Osmosis

I am continuing to update the PAKA page to include Autobiographies and fishroom photos of members.

Killies I keep I primarily raise Aphyosemion and Epiplatys. Also a few Fundulopanchax and S. A. annuals. I usually have around 70 to 80 varieties of killies at any given time, but only a dozen or so available. I do not have the tank space to raise all at the same time even if I could. I alternate what I raise to try maintain all my species. Most of my breeder males are pictured on this website in photo links. All of the photos are of my fish and were taken by me.  I will be adding photos as I have time to take more. Fishrooms These are photos of my 3 fishrooms.     The main room, containing about 80 tanks, is a 13'X12' corner of the basement where my furnace is located. The room has most of my breeding tanks, fry tanks and RO water supply. Initially I had to add an air conditioner to cool the room for some of the cold water fish like striatum and ogoense to get any eggs at all, but now with the new cold room, the australe can take their sweaters off and start laying again. The second room (Laundry Room) has one long wall of 20 gal tanks for raising fry and keeping larger killifish . The third room, formerly a garage filled with junk (could not fit a car anyway), is air conditioned in the summer for cold water species and contains 50 tanks.  It is plumbed with RO, but I am using a container for interim storage to let the water cool off. At last I have an array of tanks with a face on view and at viewing height! My Background I have been in fishkeeping on and off for over 50 years and my primary love has always been killies. Got my first ones (E.dageti, Rivulus cylindraceus and A.australe) around 1954 when I was 11.  Before that my dad got me a 5 gal tank in which I had the typical live bearers and some white cloud mountainfish. Also got a 15 gal which I had a pair of Egyptian Mouthbreeders and had housed several species over a few year period before finding australe and falling in love with killies. I am currently a member of the AKA and CKA. Email me with any questions you have about keeping killies (please check my aritcles at the left first to get some background and possibly the answers instantly) , or for information on fish I currently have available for sale. I'm certainly no expert but I can at least tell you what I have experienced. For photographs, I use a Nikon D100 with two different lenses. One is a 60 mm Micro-nikor and the other a 105 mm Micro-nikor. I use on camera flash. Most photos are "in tank" as I prefer to shoot that way. Some of the older photos on the site were taken with a Nikon Coolbpix. As you might note many are blurred. If you want good photos, the best way to go is with a single lens reflex and macro lens. Hand focus, not autofocus. With autofocus, sometimes by the time the camera settles down due to glass reflection of the autofocus, the fish may have died of old age. A digital is great as it saves enough money in wasted film to cover the cost of a good digital camera and lens.    If you want to ask questions about anything please read my beginners guide for many answers. If you don't find a good answer there, just email me at... shene@sheneskillies.com and I will try to help. This is not an email link due to such overwhelming spam email so you wil have to type it in your email program. Bill Shenefelt Other Links: PAKA Pittsburgh Area Killifish Association Home Page IKA -International Killifish Association (good information and great photos) CKA -link to Canadian Killifish Association AKA -link to American Killifish Association Killie Nutz!-link to a great information page AOA-All Oddball Aquatics-Several varieties of fish including some really rare corydoras, killies and apistos. Very reliable fish source Curt's Killies Curt was a great South American Annual breeder in eastern Ohio. He is missed in the hobby by his many friends Location/Species Code Information-Tim Addis (BKA) site with great info on codes and locations of African species GPASI- Greater Pittsburgh Aquarium Society Incorporated-General freshwater aquarium club in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. New Austrian Site South African Killifish Society