Bio: Mike Hellweg
Mike has been fascinated by fishes all his life, and has had various fishes as pets since he could barely reach the top of the goldfish bowl. He has been successfully breeding and trading fish with local shops since he was nine years old. Over the past four decades plus he has specialized mainly in miniature fishes, and has had successful spawns from various miniature fishes totaling over 400 species from 32 families of fish. He is the top ranked breeder of all time in the Missouri Aquarium Society, Inc. (MASI) Breeder's Award Program (BAP), and the top ranked aquatic horticulturist of all time in MASI’s Horticultural Award Program (HAP) with over 300 submissions from 50 families-- including more than a dozen by seed. He credits his success to large regular water changes, keeping 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 fish.
Mike has given nearly 300 talks to classes, clubs, groups and conventions all over the USA and Canada. He has documented many keeping and spawning successes in more than 250 articles published in hobby publications around the world, and has had two books published on live foods by TFH Publications.
Mike Hellweg has fish for sale!
Our speaker has fish for sale that he can bring to the meeting. This is mostly stuff that you won't find in stores. Check out the list here:
https://nwaas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=3804
