General Meeting: August 10, 20024
This meeting will feature Dr. Jan Nolta. In her talk for the PCCA she will discuss the hacks she has developed for raising and feeding live food, and breeding apistogramma, kribensis, pea puffers, wild bettafish, livebearers, medaka, rainbow shiners, plecos & catfish, different strains of killifish, Gilbert’s Pygmy Sunfish, and more!
About Dr. Jan: Jan started breeding fish at five years old, with mosquito fish rescued from the northern California rice fields as the puddles were drying up. As a kid she dreamed of having a “real” aquarium set up and she now has multi-tank syndrome with over 37 planted freshwater tanks around her home and office, including a 300 gallon aquarium with @Olliethepufferfish, a 14 inch freshwater Fahaka puffer. She has kept and bred different fish and aquatic creatures throughout her life and uses natural planted tank systems and many different live foods in her breeding projects.
In college she bred betta fish, developing a pure green strain, and those were sold to Capital Aquarium, which used to be the largest aquatic store in Sacramento. At one point there were over 200 containers of betta fish in her condo! More recently she is fascinated by guppy tail & color pattern genetics. With her love of genetics developed during a lifetime of fish breeding, Jan went into the field of human gene therapy and is now a Professor at the University of California Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, developing and delivering cell and gene therapies to human patients.
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