The Aquarist

Don Norton, also known as Red, grew up in Munroe Falls, Ohio where he first fell in love with tropical fish.
Learning to fish alongside his father and brothers, he was fascinated with the aquatic life of all fish, and it was not long before he set up his first aquarium.
Pet shops were not as popular in the 1960’s as they are today, but he saved his money and bought a small 10-gal-lon aquarium and a couple of angelfish. From that day forward, he was hooked.
Not always able to purchase tropical fish, he would catch small fish in the local river and attempt to raise them in aquariums.
Today, he has between thirty and forty aquariums, ranging in size from twenty-gallon tanks to a couple of large 125-gallon aquariums. Although he prefers to raise larger fish, typically cichlids, he has raised and bred hundreds of different species over the years.