WAKO is a group of aquarium hobbyists dedicated to the breeding, maintenance and distribution of killifish. We are an affiliate club of the AKA American Killifish Association Our meetings are free and open to the public. We invite you to join us in preserving the over 700 species of this beautiful group of freshwater fish known as Killifish.



Greetings from us at WAKO

ANNOUNCEMENT: If you haven’t already heard, our club, Wisconsin Area Killifish Org., voted to hold another great Show and Auction this year. This is our 44th annual Egg-Laying Toothcarp Jamboree!  The event will be held the weekend of Nov. 1-2, 2025. We signed our contract with the same outstanding hotel: Comfort Suites Milwaukee-Airport located at 6362 S. 13 St., Oak Creek, WI. There is a discount rate for our event.

Our featured speaker, Nikita Totsky, will give her presentation on Saturday afternoon. We plan to have our same line up as in the past with pre-registration on-line, Mail-ins and Proxies, Showroom set-up on Fri., Saturday features our Sales table, raffle, registration both pick-up and new, display, speaker, box sales, judging and hospitality. Breakdown is Saturday at 9pm. Sunday pick-up bidding paddles, Awards Presentation, deadline to register final Auction items is 10AM and the Auction starts promptly at 11AM. So, mark your calendars for a fun event that happens to include the best Killifish breeders in the country and is free and open to the public! We will be starting to update our Annual Show button in March so stay tuned for more details and we hope you can participate! Free and open to the public.


Our Next Meeting :

Sun. Apr. 13 Higley


Hi All, our Sunday April 13, 2025, WAKO meeting will be at the home of member Doug Higley in Hartford, WI. Attendees welcomed after 2pm with the business meeting starting at 4pm followed by the club auction. Please RSVP so Doug knows how to plan food and refreshments. Also, if you have a folding chair, bring it along. The May meeting will be May 18th in Green Bay, WI hosted at Advanced Aquarium Systems host/owners Ava and Dave Felty. Please note the new locations of our upcoming meetings.

If you are not a member please fill out a WAKO Contact form and one of our members will contact you soon with necessary details for you to attend our next meeting....   If you are a WAKO member please login to our user/member area for contact information of our next meeting host...

We hope to see you there!


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