Greater Cincinnati
Killifish Association Home Page

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  This is the Home Page of the Greater Cincinnati Killifish Association (GCKA). We are an affiliate member of The American Killifish Association (AKA) . We are also members of The International Killifish Association. The AKA Homepage contains links to the pages of American killifish clubs; check for a club in your area. For more information on aquarist's organizations, check out the listings in FishLinkCentral.

Purpose and Coverage, Meetings

   This affiliated Killifish Club is organized to aid members in learning about killifish, their management, maintenance and breeding. The club draws its members from Ohio as far north as the Dayton and Columbus areas, from the Metropolitan Cincinnati area, and from as far south as central Kentucky.  

Meetings are held (approximately) quarterly and, when possible, alternate between the Cincinnati and Dayton areas. Visitors are always welcome. For further information on the club, and regarding the dates and locations of upcoming meetings, please contact Tom Payne.

Officer Elections: at the December 19, 2010 meeting, members present elected the following slate of officers. 
        President: Leonard Helton  
        Secretary: Tom Payne
        Treasurer: Tom Isgro
        Webmaster: Donna Recktenwalt

The next regularly scheduled meeting of G.C.K.A. will be at 1:00 p.m., Saturday, September 11, 2011, at Fritz and  MaryJo Bazeley's cabin, 5132 Lawrenceburg Road, Harrison, OH 45030. Please bring a dish to share; club provides balance of food. If you wish to collect, bring appropriate equipment AND YOUR CURRENT OHIO FISHING LICENSE.

For an Adobe map, please contact Tom Payne

Recent Newsletters

Files are in Microsoft Word or Adobe formats.

September 2011
May 2011

Useful Links

Many of our members maintain a variety of fish in addition to killifish, and have interests that encompass other areas of the hobby. This is a list of sites that have proven to contain information or graphics of interest to aquatic hobbyists in general. The list tends to change without notice, just as do the contents of the world wide web.

The Fishroom Library

A collection of articles, tips, and information about tropical fishkeeping in general, and killi-keeping in particular, from the pages of the G.C.K.A. Newsletter and other sources.

The Fishroom Library** contains articles from the G.C.K.A. Newsletter for the year 2006.

The Fishroom Library Archives contain articles from previous years' newsletters (1996-2005). They are broken down by subject and may (or may not) be grouped by years (1996-2000, 2001-2005). Note that those pages with a double asterisk (**) are currently under construction, and that all articles may not be currently available.

        Breeding Killifish (1996-2000)
        Breeding Killifish (2001-2005)
                   - articles about breeding fish, incubating and hatching eggs, and raising fry.
        Conservation and Species Maintenance  (1996-2005)  
                   -subjects of concern as the earth becomes more densely populated..
         Fishes (1996-2005)  
                   - profiles of various species, with information on identification and maintenance.
        Foods and Feeding (1996-2000)  
        Foods and Feeding (2001-2005)  
                   - what to feed your fish. Live foods, dry foods, paste foods.
        General (1996-2000) 
        General (2001-2005)  
                    - articles that cover a wide range, and don't fit into any other category.
        Plants (1996-2005) - the botanic side of aquatics.

All material is copyright © G.C.K.A. or to the individual author,  unless otherwise noted. Reproduction is permitted for non-commercial purposes only (i.e., club bulletins). We do request that you provide source credit, and send us a copy of the publication in which the article appears. Please forward author copies to G.C.K.A., c/o Recktenwalt, 4337 Ridgepath Drive, Dayton, OH 45424.

Additional suggestions and information for these page(s) are always welcome. 
© Page copyright G.C.K.A.and Donna M. Recktenwalt 1996-2011.
 Page last updated 09/13/2011