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After becoming one of the lucky few, in
November of 1967, to be born a Texan, I spent the first ten
years of my life in Germany, Vietnam and Thailand as a military
brat. Upon returning to the United States, my family settled
in, of all places, central Arkansas where I have lived for
the past twenty-five years. Having graduated from the University
of Arkansas with a degree in nursing, I will do so again in
the fall of 2003 with a Bachelor of Science in biology and
minor in chemistry, also from the U of A. For the past fifteen
years my spare time away from reef keeping is spent working
for an air medical program at Baptist Health Medical Center
in Little Rock, where I met my wife Roxanne.
While Arkansas is not exactly a hot bed
of marine enthusiasm, my isolation has driven me to travel
and learn far more than I thought I ever would about this
hobby. My treks have taken me to workshops and conventions
in Athens, Baltimore, Dallas and Chicago in effort to hone
my husbandry skills for marine animals. I practice my craft
on a 120 gallon plenum system that consists of primarily large
polyp stony corals and soft corals. My success in the hobby
is not without the help of my two sons and every family member
that has undergone my crash course in marine tank emergency
preparedness.
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