Mike is a business investor (and owns a few here and there), beach bum (easy to do when you don't have an 8-5 and your front yard is a reef!), and aquarium hobbyist (as well as author and consultant).
Mike’s aquatic experience is two-fold. He has nearly twenty years of experience keeping a great deal of tropical marine fish and invertebrates, has worked in many areas of the aquatic industry from Los Angeles to Houston. After “too many” years in school and in labs studying or researching marine biology, ecology, and medicine, as well as time spent out of the country performing research in the Belize barrier reef.
Due to his formal education in Marine Biology and overall love for living things, Mike cares a great deal about the ecology of our oceans, and believes that well informed and caring aquarists can have a positive ecological impact, and provide incentive for conservation and responsible management of natural resources. Mike & employees take great care to conduct the business dealings of Captive Aquatics™ in an environmentally and ethically responsible manner.
Mike greatly enjoys helping people successfully care for captive aquatic animals in the long term, and has been actively sharing his aquarium knowledge with others for over a decade, and a marine aquarist since 1993. Although Mike primarily volunteers any information and expertise he can via WetWebMedia or his blog, his written works appear on several aquarium websites, virtually every aquarium magazine, and one book. Mike has also been interviewed by radio shows and newspapers regarding aquatic research, reef ecology, and ocean conservation topics. He advocates perspective, encouraging all to remember that our small hobby is just that: a hobby – but one from which we can all learn a great deal.
Mike is an avid rock climber, volunteer firefighter, and also has an interest, has worked, and is published in the field of medicine.
Mike [sporting the blue shades!] and others performing research in the Belize Barrier Reef
