Rappin' With ReefBum

Rappin' With ReefBum is a LIVE talk show with host Keith Berkelhamer and guests from the reef keeping community. In this episode I chat with Ty Ta, a.k.a. Farmer Ty from farmertyfrags.com.

Rappin' With ReefBum is a LIVE talk show with host Keith Berkelhamer and guests from the reef keeping community. In this episode I chat with Matthew Zahler from My First Fish Tank and Bulk Reef Supply. Matthew focuses on the beginner's aspect of the reefkeeping hobby with his website, myfirstfishtank.com, and the YouTube videos he creates for the My First Fish Tank and Bulk Reef Supply channels.

Rappin' With ReefBum is a LIVE talk show with host Keith Berkelhamer and guests from the reef keeping community. In this episode I hand over the hosting duties to my friend Dr. Rob Williams, who will interview me :)

Rob is involved with a number of "projects". He is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Peak Flow and is an adjunct professor at several colleges in Vermont. Rob is also the co-proprietor of the Vermont Yak Company and is the editor/publisher of The Vermont Independent. PLUS, he is the band leader of The Phineas Gage Project!

Rappin' With ReefBum is a LIVE talk show with host Keith Berkelhamer and guests from the reef keeping community. In this episode I chat with hobbyist Joe Muscat (a.k.a. TUSI). Joe’s tank was the Reef2Reef tank of the month in July 2021. This is actually the 2nd time his tank was featured on Reef2Reef. The first time was back in 2015. This was the first time in the history of the forum that any tank was featured twice for the ‘tank of the month’ spotlight.

Rappin' With ReefBum is a LIVE talk show with host Keith Berkelhamer and guests from the reef keeping community. In this episode I chat with Dr. Ben Titus. Ben is an evolutionary biologist interested in understanding how biodiversity evolves in tropical marine mutualisms. He combines extensive field research with systematics and genomic approaches to understand symbiosis at all levels of biological organization.

His work spans from broad order-level phylogenetics to phylogeography, species delimitation, population genetics, full genome sequencing, and behavioral ecology. Ben is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Science at University of Alabama. He received the MASNA graduate student fellowship award at MACNA 2017 and was a speaker at the 2019 MACNA.

Rappin' With ReefBum is a LIVE talk show with host Keith Berkelhamer and guests from the reef keeping community. In this episode I chat with Kevin Burda, who is one of the owners of Top Shelf Aquatics. Kevin also runs the TSA coral farm.

Rappin' With ReefBum is a LIVE talk show with host Keith Berkelhamer and guests from the reef keeping community. In this episode I chat with Jack Kent, who is the CEO of Brightwell Aquatics. Jack is an industry veteran who founded Kent Marine in 1989, which was one of the most recognized and trusted brands in the aquarium trade. Brightwell was started in 2006.

For those of you who are not familiar with Brightwell, the company has a complete line of salt, additives, chemicals, vitamins, nutritional supplements and filtration media for saltwater and freshwater aquariums. Jack also owns Continuum Aquatics.

Rappin' With ReefBum is a LIVE talk show with host Keith Berkelhamer and guests from the reef keeping community. In this episode I chat with John Coppolino, A.K.A. Copps. John keeps about 2500 gallons of saltwater aquariums, most being reefs. In addition to publishing articles and speaking at conferences, including three past MACNAs, John has spoken to reef clubs in over twenty states. His systems have been featured in publications in Asia, Europe, and the United States. These include the book “The Coral Reef Aquarium” by Tony Vargas.

John is also one of just two people to have received the prestigious Reef Central Tank of the Month for two different systems (September ’04 and January ’11). In the summer of 2013 John started building his largest system yet, a 1300 gallon SPS display, a 240 gallon anemone display and two six foot frag tanks that are installed in the “forever home” he and his wife built. John also has had a number of SPS corals named after him.

Rappin' With ReefBum is a LIVE talk show with host Keith Berkelhamer and guests from the reef keeping community. In this episode I chat with Ben Johnson from Captive Aquatic Ecosystems. Ben is a an aquarium maintenance guru who has many types of clients, including both high-end and low-end clients. His company is based in Houston, Texas.

Ben has spoken at MACNA and he has strong opinions about how things should be done with a reef tank. So we will talk about tank maintenance and husbandry, which are vitally important for having success in this hobby. Ben is also co-host of Reef Beef, a popular reef tank podcast.

Rappin' With ReefBum is a LIVE talk show with host Keith Berkelhamer and guests from the reef keeping community. In this episode I chat with Jason Mack, who is the admin for Mack's Reef, a Dinoflagellates support group on Facebook.