Adrian Taylor
I was born in May 1960 and grew up in Runcorn Cheshire, England, where I still live. My interest in all things fishy began like most as a young child, when my father won a goldfish on the coconut shy at the fairground, and it could be said that during my early years there was always a goldfish somewhere to be seen in my house. The primary school where I went had a tropical fish tank positioned just out side the headmaster’s office and I always could be found at playtime on rainy days looking into the tank and marvelling at the neon tetras, zebra danio’s & angel fish that were the norm for many enthusiasts during the 1960’s. Unfortunately for me; although I wasn’t what you would call a naughty child, I wasn’t the teacher’s pet either and even though I did ask to be part of the aquarium monitor brigade, I was never allowed to help with its maintenance, and it wasn’t until my sixteenth birthday that I was allowed a tropical aquarium and shortly after I joined a local fish society, and the rest they say is history. Since that time I have kept some type of aquaria, and have bred many genera & species of fish; and I am at present the Secretary of the Catfish Study Group.
Although I really do like Corydoradinae catfishes, I also have an interest in the small Asian Hillstream cats commonly referred to as Mothcats, along with some other species of Hillstream cats such as the Akysis, and the smaller Bagrids. The most aquaria I ever had at one time was 56, but a change in circumstances forced me to reduce this down, and now I have 32 aquaria, and have managed so far to spawn a total of 7 Aspidoras species, 18 Corydoras species and 3 Scleromystax species.
I was born in May 1960 and grew up in Runcorn Cheshire, England, where I still live. My interest in all things fishy began like most as a young child, when my father won a goldfish on the coconut shy at the fairground, and it could be said that during my early years there was always a goldfish somewhere to be seen in my house. The primary school where I went had a tropical fish tank positioned just out side the headmaster’s office and I always could be found at playtime on rainy days looking into the tank and marvelling at the neon tetras, zebra danio’s & angel fish that were the norm for many enthusiasts during the 1960’s. Unfortunately for me; although I wasn’t what you would call a naughty child, I wasn’t the teacher’s pet either and even though I did ask to be part of the aquarium monitor brigade, I was never allowed to help with its maintenance, and it wasn’t until my sixteenth birthday that I was allowed a tropical aquarium and shortly after I joined a local fish society, and the rest they say is history. Since that time I have kept some type of aquaria, and have bred many genera & species of fish; and I am at present the Secretary of the Catfish Study Group.
Although I really do like Corydoradinae catfishes, I also have an interest in the small Asian Hillstream cats commonly referred to as Mothcats, along with some other species of Hillstream cats such as the Akysis, and the smaller Bagrids. The most aquaria I ever had at one time was 56, but a change in circumstances forced me to reduce this down, and now I have 32 aquaria, and have managed so far to spawn a total of 7 Aspidoras species, 18 Corydoras species and 3 Scleromystax species.