AquariumHobbyist Chat Week

Please join us on AquariumHobbyist.com for our fifth annual Chat Week
from December 7 to December 13. This year's guests include:
 
Julian Sprung
 
Julian Sprung is the author of "The Reef Aquarium Volumes 1 and 2,"
"Reef Notes Revisited and Revised," and numerous other books, as well
as a photographer, aquarium design consultant and lecturer on marine
aquariums, coral husbandry, and coral reef biology. Julian also is a
co-founder and the Vice President of Two Little Fishies, Inc., an
aquarium industry manufacturer and publisher. He writes the column
"Reef Notes" in Freshwater and Marine magazine, and has authored
numerous articles in other publications such as Seascope, Aquarium
Frontiers (which he co-founded with Daniel Ramirez and Terry Siegel),
Advanced Aquarist Online, Aquarium Fish Monthly, Marine Fish and Reef
USA, and Tropical Fish Hobbyist. Julian wrote and narrated the video
entitled "An Introduction to the Hobby of Reef Keeping," the first
product of his collaboration with Daniel Ramirez, which resulted in
the formation of Two Little Fishies, Inc.
 
Martin Moe
 
Martin Moe is the well-known author of books such as "The Marine
Aquarium Handbook," first published in 1982,
which was very influential in the development of the marine aquarium
hobby, "The Marine Aquarium Reference," and numerous other titles. He
has a masters degree in marine biology, and has worked as lifeguard, a
teacher, a fishery biologist, a marine fish breeder, and a writer. He
began breeding marine fish, pompano, in 1969 and then developed the
techniques for breeding clownfish in 1972. He started Aqualife
Research in 1973 with clownfish and goby culture and then moved the
company to the Florida Keys in 1975. There, the company continued to
breed clownfish and other species, but concentrated on developing a
method for breeding the large Atlantic angelfish, the French and the
gray. This effort was biologically but not economically successful.
The company moved to Walker's Cay in the Bahamas in the mid 1980s and
concentrated on commercial clownfish culture.
 
Kevin Kohen
 
Kevin Kohen of LiveAquaria.com has helped pioneer important research
studies in water chemistry management, filtration technologies, fish
diseases, and acclimation techniques to safeguard the health of a wide
range of aquatic species. He also was influential in the research and
development of specialized shipping techniques that are now used by
most distributors and exporters in the nation to ensure the health of
aquatic life during transit. As a hobbyist/enthusiast, Kevin has bred
and reared nearly 100 species of fresh and saltwater fish, and in 1981
was one of the earliest pioneers in maintaining live corals in
captivity.
 
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