Pat Kelly
CCA Member
September 14th 2pm - Mike Hellweg
Mike Hellweg
Mike has been breeding fish since he was 9 years old. Over the past 40 years he has specialized in miniature fishes, and has bred numerous oddballs including licorice and chocolate gouramis, almost half of the known wild Betta species, two species of Kuhli loaches, hillstream loaches, wasp catfish, bumblebee catfish, banjo catfish, seahorses, pipefish, miniature fishes from several fish families, and nearly 400 other species from 30 families of fish (only about 50 of which are cichlids!). He credits his success to using live plants in every tank and culturing and feeding an assortment of live foods daily for feeding his breeding stock and for growing the fry of these diverse oddball fish.
Mike has documented many of these spawning sucesses in more than 200 articles published in hobby magazines around the world, and has had two books on live foods published by TFH Publications.
Breeding Tips and Tricks
In this talk I discuss the challenges of spawning fish, sharing many of the tips and tricks that Ive learned over the past 40 years from my own experience and from other hobbyists who have gone before. I also cover a bit of the recent TFH Breeders Challenge, giving those who followed the contest in the pages of TFH a view from the inside of the contest.
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