AAAA Oct Meeting w/ Michael Echt & Bowl Show

Our speaker will be Michael Echt. He will be sharing his experiences from his collecting trip to Cameroon, Africa! A tale of fish, friends, sleep deprivation, COVID, bribery, discovery, loss and goats. Plus a whole bunch of photos! Overview of the 2022 West African Cichlid expedition to southern Cameroon along the border of the Congo.

Michael is A lifelong aquatics enthusiast for over 30 years. He sent me this short bio on his fish hobby : My first memories of fish were of my siblings' livebearer tank, snorkeling in the Caribbean and joining the American Killifish Association at the age of 12. For the last 10 years I have maintained a fish room of approximately 40 tanks focused half on killifish and half on the breeding of random species that catch my eye. My focus shifted in 2016 to include collecting ornamental fish. I travel to Florida yearly and always dedicate at…