As the principal director of Reef Ranch Publishing Ltd and author of The Complete Reef Aquarist – A Conservation Manual, Chris has over 55 years of experience keeping aquatic animals with 47 of them nurturing marine species. His innate passion for system dynamics drove him from the laboratory to university where he gained a greater appreciation of biochemistry, biotechnology, epidemiology, genetics, histology, inorganic and organic chemistry, mariculture, molecular and microbiology, saltwater zoology, and the diagnosis and treatment of aquatic diseases. His dedicated marine livestock supplier, The Reef Ranch™, demanded he devise, streamline, and establish protocols for combined acclimation and prophylactic pest/parasite clearance, and innovate system design, optimisation, maintenance, and husbandry in the face of incessant influxes of hundreds of delicate marine animals. With exceptional, uncompromising, and likely the UK’s most disease-free reef and fish-only facilities, losses were less than one resident every six months. 20 years hence, he has refined his expertise for digesting, authoring, editing, and publishing reef conservation-driven scientific literature, to an end of diminishing the impact the tropical marine ornamental industry exerts in the wild.