July 2008 Speaker: The Pacific Coast Cichlid Association is proud to announce Mr.
Bob Boone, from Hayward, California, as our speaker on July 12, 2008.

Mr. Bob Boone has been in the industry since about 1970 working part-time in a pet shop
in Colorado. He designed a tropical fish hatchery and converted a catfish farm using
geothermal water in 1979 and he also ran the facilities for one year.

In fact, Mr. Bob Boone started doing wholesale in 1980 and helped design and build
Colorado's first multi-tank recirculation systems in 1981. He moved out to the bay area in
1986 where he worked for a wholesaler for four years then he moved to Texas in 1990 and
worked for Fritz Industries for six years (four years as general manager of livestock operations
for six warehouses and two years in R&D mostly working with nitrifying bacteria).

In 1999, Mr. Robert Rodriguez and Mr. Bob Boone started Aquatic Specialties And Pets
(A.S.A.P) which is the biggest Northern California wholesaler of marine and freshwater fish.

In total, Mr. Bob Boone has designed the fish rooms for two stores, nine warehouses, and
the geothermal fish hatchery.

Please don't miss out one of our best this year programs and join us on July 12, 2008, at 4400
Stevens Creek Blvd, San Jose, CA 95129.