sentences:  Konings also was mentored by prominent fish explorer and exporter Stuart Grant early in his career, and when Konings married his wife Gertrud (nḗe Dudin), also a biologist, in 1996 in Malawi Grant and his wife Esther were best man and maid of honor.Konings moved to El Paso, Texas, in 1996, relocating Cichlid Press along with his family.In interviews he has described a love of the area's climate and landscape as the reason for the move.