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		Francisco Borrero, Jack Taylor and Tyler Sena
		John Erdman	January 2002
		Thanks for your patience this month, I (JE) hope the results will be worth the wait. We have a great group of hobbyists as the target of this spotlight, Francisco Borrero, Jack Taylor and Tyler Sena. All three bring different perspectives, interests and valuable knowledge to the table. I have had the good fortune to meet Francisco and Tyler face to face, and it would be an honor to meet Jack in due time. Hopefully you will all enjoy reading this spotlight as much as I enjoyed preparing it! JE: Please tell us all a little about yourself. Single, married, attached? What do you do for a living? Other hobbies? Any significant non-discus achievements you want to brag about? Francisco: I am 44 years old, married to Melinda for 11 years, and have a beautiful daughter Maya, 4 1/2 years old. I recently reinvented myself as a teacher of Spanish and various Biology topics. I used to be a university professor engaged in research/academics in the fields of marine sciences, mollusk aquaculture and physiological ecology. After that I became a consultant/entrepreneur in aquaculture, and then changed. Hobbies include traveling, bicycling long distances (street bike), sometimes triathlons, and hiking. I also collect stamps (animals and flowers). Jack: My name is Jack Taylor from Kansas City. I have a wonderful wife (Debra) and two children Matthew (7) & Courtney (6). I work for Grainger Industrial Supply as a third shift Receiving Manager. The kids have never seen me work days. And they may never !!!!!!!! I love to hunt and fish, neither of which I do much of since I have fish !!!!!!!! We are trying to change that this year!!! I also am a member of the USAF Reserves (19 years +) I work on the A-10 Thunderbolt as a sturctural repair technician. Tyler: Well, as most of you know I am 13 years old. I'm pretty sure that makes me Simply's youngest member, and thats an honor in itself! I'm currently in the 8th grade, and trying to get done all I can in school to get into honors courses next year. This coupled with a discus addiction is not always an easy task! I also enjoy sports, mostly Basketball and Football.....go Jets!!! I've also recently become a moderator over at Discus As A Hobby, and that place coupled with Simply seems to have a wealth of discus knowledge I haven't found anywhere else. JE: How did you get into discus? Where was the first discus you saw? How long had you been into fish first? I am a newbie with discus but not with fish. I have been keeping discus for 3 years now, and only 2 years with any degree of success. Francisco: My mother used to be an avid fishkeeper/breeder in Colombia, and I started helping her from very early. I had my first 2 tanks at age 7 (20 and 45gal) and kept small community fish (guppies, tetras, gouramis, acaras, angels, etc.). I bred livebearers, gouramis, danios, and acaras then. Never had discus. The first discus I saw were wild, probably blue or brown, at one of my moms fish business partners place in Cali. This must have been in the late 60s. They were expensive, rare, and considered extremely demanding. I had tanks all the way thru my bachelors, and left Colombia for graduate studies in the US in 1982. Had fish on and off thru 1992 when returned to Colombia for a few years. Came back in 1997 and began again with fish the next year. Jack: I have had fish on and off for over 15 years. It was just a few tanks running up until a few years ago. I had seen discus in the past but they were always so faded and dark at the LFS. I didn't want anything like that!! I went to the ACA show in Chicago (I was an African cichlid nut) and seen some really beautiful cichlids. But what really caught my eye was the discus that were in the tanks. It was at that time I met Julia Mann (Blue Moon Discus). Time went by and I was sent on Reserve duty to Barksdale AFB. I remembered I had a business card from Julia and contacted her once I got to Louisiana. I visited and fell in love with her fish. I slowly started collecting fish everytime I had duty. Tyler: He probably doesn't even remember this, but Dave Clubine got me into discus. I met him over on The Freshwater Forum, and was in awe at the pictures he would post. I then began talking about how I wanted discus (and looking back, I notice how little about them I actually knew) and he gave me the link to this site. From that point on, I was hooked! Before seeing discus, I was into other tropical fish for a couple years. I was never serious about it though, just had a couple kribs and loaches. Discus really jumpstarted the hobby for me though, and I havent looked back. more...

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