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Matt Pedersen |
Matt Pedersen has been an avid aquarist for decades. He has spent time working in just about every level of the aquarium industry, managing retail shops, running maintenance businesses, as well as running a wholesale and hatchery operation. Matt's professional life for the last decade has been as an Interactive Software Developer (pays the bills). Matt is also a part-time fly fishing guide, guiding both the inland trout streams of Iowa and the Lake Michigan tributaries of southeast Wisconsin for Salmon & Steelhead. Matt also happens to be a certified professional fly rod builder. Matt is currently a "full-time hobbyist", focusing on marine reef keeping and fish breeding. After realizing a need for a more cohesive and supportive community, Matt Pedersen co-founded MOFIB (Marine Ornamental Fish & Invert Breeders), an online community, resource and marketplace dedicated to the advancement of captive marine fish and invertebrate breeding. He has personally spawned at least 10 species, with 3 successfully raised, and at least 3 more "almost" completed successfully, all with a total working volume of less than 100 gallons, not to mention several other species "in progress", whether simply working on establishing broodstock or waiting for first spawns
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ABSTRACT
MOFIB's Marine Fish Breeding for the Hobbyist
Marine Fish Breeding is certainly the "final frontier" in the saltwater aquarium hobby - it's the next challenge for those of you who've grown tired with fragging coral! With the current state of the world's oceans, we find ourselves playing catchup if we are to preserve the "swimming" components of our aquariums for future generations. To quote Joe Lichtenbert, "the time is now".
Every hobbyist can play a role, and Matt will show how most any hobbyist, by making a few small changes and minimal additions of equipment, may be able to start pursuing the activity of breeding. Over half the presentation will briefly examine no less than 20 species/groups of marine fish that offer opportunities for the home-based hobbyist breeder, everything from the surpsingly easy-to-rear to those groups that are popular aquarium fish yet little if anything is known about their captive reproductive capabilties, all in the hopes that something may spark your curiousity. We will cover a wide range of additional resources for additional information and support, and finish with a recap and time for Q&A.
