PAKA

(Pittsburgh Area Killifish Association)

PAKA picnic, 2011

The Annual PAKA "BYOS" (Bring Your Own Steak) Picnic will be held at Shene's place on Sunday, August 26th. If you need directions, contact Shene. As usual I will make some potato salad and all are welcome to bring a dish of their choice to add to the feast. The pool is open so hopefully it will be as nice a day for uor picnic as it was last year.

At our meeting this July, Roberto brought fish he got in from an order with Gary Greenwood. We decided to order bags but not BS eggs at this time. Scott and Tom are to contact some "local" new AKA members and Tom will check with NOKA members to see if there is any interest in PAKA since NOKA seems inactive since Jim and Liz dropped killies. Food was great as usual. Joe Doyle even brought me a birthday cake as it was my birthday. Even Guman showed up!

The PAKA library book list is available at

PAKA library

PAKA Friends Some photos of visitors

Active Members

Eric Bodrock       coryjeb@verizon.net 

Don Tuttle     djtuttlefish@comcast.net

Scott Graner           sgraner@attbi.com

Bill Shenefelt          shene@sheneskillies.com

Jim Steigerwalt      jimstg@zbzoom.net

Don Guman      rdguman@verizon.net

Tom DiCola           mruaru2@aol.com

Larry Ayers........    ayersld@hotmail.com

Regina Spotti.......   gpesci13@yahoo.com

Gerry Lofstead ...LBigcory1@aol.com

Roberto Prati ==italian1026@yahoo.com

As a reminder, Scott is the current librarian and has some killi literature that belongs to the club and is available for loan to PAKA members between meetings. Members "sign out" these volumes and are responsible for their safe keeping until return at the next meeting.

Killi-Data Catalogue by Jean Huber (In 4 volumes Note only one volume may be borrowed at a time.) All killifish species (Irrespective of Genera)are listed in alphabetical order

A short guide to the world of Killifish by Todor Metchkov
In 6 languages

The Killifish Master Index 4th Edition by Ken Lazara

I have scanned a listing that Jim Robinson gave me of annual killifish incubation times. It is primarily of SAS killies but does have a few Nothos. See: Jim Robinsons Incubation times

This site is intended to provide our members with information on meetings, and club news including club member fish and egg listings.  we need to do a major update on species within the club Lets Discuss at the Picnic.

April 2005 PAKA fishlist This is a very old list and is much smaller currently. At least it will give some idea as to the experience within PAKA

Bill Shenefelt-webmaster http://sheneskillies.com