Marine Habitat – Discover & Master Saltwater Fishkeeping. A marine fish keeping and conservation magazine. ‘The contributors’ page provides some background on the expert writers onboard.
Marine Habitat has a fantastic and very experienced team of contributors, aimed at providing you with most useful, accurate and trusted information. This section introduces each of the Marine Habitat writers and provides a biography of each.
The current Marine Habitat magazine contributing team is as follows:
Please click on their photo to read the full biographies.
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SCOTT MICHAEL
Age: 49.
Hometown: Lincoln, Nebraska USA.
Full-time Occupation: Photojournalist. Also involved in consulting for an aquarium maintenance business (Reef Tectonics).
Marine Experience: 38yrs.
Aquarium Size: 58 US gallon aquarium at home. Also involved in maintaining over 100 marine and freshwater aquaria.
Favourite
Fish: Wobbegongs, Epaulette Sharks, frogfishes (aka anglerfishes), shrimp gobbies.
Coral: Euphyllia, Goniopora and Alvepora spp.
Other: Reef lobsters and decapod shrimps.
Specialist Areas: Behaviour ecology of Elasmobranches (sharks and rays) and reef fishes. |
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TRISTAN LOUGHER
Age: 39
Hometown: Northwich, UK.
Full-time Occupation: Zoologist.
Marine Experience: 15yrs.
Aquarium Size: None at home; I’m as responsible for many aquaria at Cheshire Waterlife.
Favourite
Fish: Yellow Eye Tang (Ctenochaetus strigosus).
Coral: African Blue Coral (Cespitularia).
Other: Anything but sea urchins.
Specialist Areas: Species knowledge. |
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MATT PEDERSEN
Age: In my 30’s
Hometown: Chicago, IL, USA
Full Time Occupation: Interactive Software Developer
Marine Experience: 23 Yrs
Aquarium Size: Multiple aquaria totalling 300 US gallons
Favourite
Fish: Too many to mention
Coral: Hot Pink Birdsnest (Seriatopora hystrix)
Other: Nudibranch (Elysia diomedia)
Specialist Areas: Marine Fish Breeding |
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BOB GOEMANS
Age: 75.
Hometown: Tucson, Arizona (USA), and Bahia de Kino (Mexico).
Full-time Occupation: Marine Aquarium Consultant, public speaker, and writer/author.
Marine Experience: 40 – overall hobby 65.
Aquarium Size: None at homes due to travelling requirements. Yet consult and help maintain many client systems.
Favourite
Fish: Enchelycore pardalis (Dragon moray).
Coral: Acropora youngei (Bali Green Stony Coral).
Other: Basically all inverts.
Specialist Areas: Providing an educational marine aquarium website at www.saltcorner.com. |
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IGGY TAVARES
Age: 62.
Hometown: London.
Full-time Occupation: Scientist.
Marine Experience: 7yrs.
Aquarium Size: None at the moment.
Favourite
Fish: Powder blue tang (Acanthurus leucosternon)
Coral: Elegance Coral (Catalaphyllia jardenei)
Other: Blood Red Fire Shrimp (Lysmata debelius)
Specialist Areas: Photography
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DR NICK BRYAN
Age: 27.
Hometown: Liverpool, UK.
Full-time Occupation: Research, my primary interest is prediction of the immune response to implantable devices.
Marine Experience: 12yrs.
Aquarium Size: Sumped 3x2x18 (Approx 300L).
Favourite
Fish: Addis Butterfly, Crosshatch Trigger, Yellow Tang, Ventralis Anthias, Epaulette Shark.
Coral: Acanthophyllia, Trachyphyllia.
Other: Harlequin Shrimp.
Specialist Areas: Aquatic Chemistry & Molecular Biology. |
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JOHN CLIPPERTON
Age: 36.
Hometown: Chester, UK.
Full-time Occupation: Office Worker, Photographer
Marine Experience: 10yrs.
Aquarium Size: 45 UK Gallons
Favourite
Fish: Clipperton Angelfish
Coral: Can’t choose one… sorry!
Other: Peacock Mantis Shrimp
Specialist Areas: Aquarium photography, species identification, also run: www.digital-reefs.com |
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JOHN DAWES
Age: 66.
Hometown: Gibraltar (now living in Spain)
Full-time Occupation: International consultant, author, editor
Marine Experience: Over 25 yrs.
Aquarium Size: Have had numerous aquaria, but owing to my travelling schedule, I now have a number of ponds
Favourite
Fish: Leafy seadragon (Phycodorus eques)
Coral: Too many to choose.
Other: All forms of shore life.
Specialist Areas: Marine life in Nature, ecology, evolution, fish behaviour, conservation, the ornamental aquatic industry. |
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If you have experience in marine fishkeeping and would like to contribute content (either written work or images), then please contact us to discuss it further.
