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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3722119, member: 19463&quot;]In the early 1960&#039;s I worked in our family aquarium store.&nbsp;&nbsp; In the early 1970&#039;s I took many fish photos and was designated the &#039;Official Photographer&#039; of the American Cichlid Association where I met a Florida fish farmer who occasionally sent me then new and different fish he wanted photographed.&nbsp; At the time he was working on setting up Tilapia ponds in underdeveloped parts of the world to feed hungry people.&nbsp; Americans did not eat Tilapia then.&nbsp; I got to keep the fish. </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;In 1974, my daughter was born and we converted the fish room to a nursery so had to cut down to just one tank.&nbsp; The thrill went away.&nbsp; That was the same time I sold off my coins thinking we needed to eat.&nbsp; </p><p><a href="https://www.aquainfo.org/article/caquetaia-spectabilis/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.aquainfo.org/article/caquetaia-spectabilis/" rel="nofollow">Caquetaia spectabilis</a> (then called Cichlasoma spectabile)</p><p><img src="https://a4.pbase.com/v3/88/582688/1/49706580.0smspectabile3918.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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