12:30 pm Set-up
1:00 pm Socializing
1:15 pm Announcements
1:45 pm Presentation: Kevin Wilson, “Chesapeake Bay Oyster Reef Biotope Aquarium–Dream Tank Realized.”
2:45 pm Mini-auction
4:00 pm Take-down
Speaker Bio:
Kevin began fishkeeping at the age of 13. After Graduating High School, he worked his first job at the Barrier Reef Aquarium in Rockville, where he was introduced to the saltwater side of the hobby. It was then after purchasing his first blenny that he fell in love with the blennies, a genus of coastal fishes with interesting behaviors. While in college, he caught his first local blenny and became fascinated with a grad student’s experiment on striped blennies. This fascination led to his current dream, to keep local blennies in a setting close to their natural environment and resulted in his efforts to build a simulated oyster reef in a home aquarium. He’s also kept local native freshwater fish species in home aquariums for 43 years and is a member of the North American Native Fishes Association (NANFA).
Starting 2024 with a bang! Really excited for this presentation.