MIKE HELLWEG

Mike has been successfully breeding and trading fish with local shops since he was 9 years old.  Over the past 50 years he has had successful spawns from nearly 500 species representing 37 families of fish.  He was recently named a Fellow of the Missouri Aquarium Society in recognition to his decades of service to the Society and to the Hobby.  He currently owns a small fish hatchery and maintains about 3000 gallons divided into 100 tanks.  He is the top ranked breeder of all time in the Missouri Aquarium Society (MASI) BAP and he is an ALA Century Breeder, with nearly 150 species of Livebearers spawned.  He credits all of these successes to large regular water changes, keeping live plants in every tank and culturing and feeding an assortment of live foods daily for both his breeding stock and for growing the fry of these diverse fish.​

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Mike's talk is titled, Live Foods for Aquarium Fish. It will cover culturing several easy live foods for all types of aquarium fishes