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Rearing Green Chromis
With nearly a million specimens imported into the United States each year, the green chromis, Chromis viridis, may well be the most popular fish in the marine aquarium trade (Rhyne et al. 2012). It is...
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Highhats from Discovery Cove
2013 is turning out to be a productive year at the Tropical Aquaculture Laboratory. As the calender year turned, we welcomed our newest member to the marine ornamentals team, Jon-Michael Degidio....
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Highhats at 20 days
Just a quick photo update of the recently raised highhats from Discovery Cove. Here, the juveniles, now at 20 days old, are over an inch long and developing their characteristic juvenile streamers....
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Hello all! I would like to start my first blog post with a grand THANK YOU to the University of Florida Rising Tide team: Matt, Eric, Kevin and especially Judy St. Ledger for choosing me to join them...
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Rearing the Crested Oyster Goby
Mature pair of crested oyster gobies. Male above, female below The field of marine ornamental aquaculture is truly unique. Unlike food fish aquaculture or pearl farming where end consumers gain a...
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Live Feeds at the Tropical Aquaculture Lab: Colurella adriatica
Colurella adriatica isolated from Tampa Bay zooplankton; approximately 45 microns wide and 90 microns long. Photocredit: Eric J. Cassiano. We first spotted Colurella adriatica in one of our...
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Milletseed Butterflyfish update
Working with Milletseed Butterfly’s (Chaetodon miliaris) has presented some unique challenges. After experiencing some issues during shipping and quarantine, we made some changes, and have a batch of...
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Rising Tide Intern Jana Huebner
Hello!My name is Jana Huebner and I have had the pleasure to join the Tropical Aquaculture Laboratory as an intern for the summer. I am originally from the landlocked state of Missouri. I love the...
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Dr. Matthew L. Wittenrich is moving on from University of Florida
Dr. Matthew L. Wittenrich is moving on. After spending nearly 2 years with us at the Tropical Aquaculture Laboratory, Matt, his wife Sarah, and their two children are moving back to the East coast of...
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Rising Tide is moving forward
15 day post hatch Pacific blue tang larva, measuring 3.6mm in length. Photo courtesy of Matthew L. WittenrichPersonnel changes, although sometimes difficult, can also provide...
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Tagging Milletseed Butterflyfish Spawning Groups
Kevin Barden and Sam Groene tagging milletseed butterflyfishOur initial population of milletseed butterflyfish consisted of one male and multiple females (lucky guy). To remedy this gender ratio...
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Milletseed Butterflyfish Larvae
In our previous post we mentioned that we had grouped the Milletseed Butterflyfish into three separate populations to address gender ratio and the largest population had spawned very few non-viable...
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Yellow Tang Research at the Oceanic Institute – Making Exciting Progress
Larval development of yellow tangs from 15 to 50 days posthatch (dph). Photo credit: Dean Kline and David Hoy.Research on culturing yellow tangs began at the Oceanic Institute (OI) back...
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Introducing Emma Forbes: OI / HPU Grad Student Focused On Yellow Tangs
Hello everyone!!My name is Emma and I’m a graduate student at Hawai’i Pacific University (HPU) working toward my master’s in marine science. I’ve been one lucky girl these past few years! I graduated...
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Milletseed Butterflyfish Update: Good News / Bad News
Let’s get the bad news out of the way first. We lost our last remaining milletseed butterflyfish larvae at 44 dph (days post hatch). The good news is we’ve gained ample insight into the larval stages...
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Building a Rising Tide in Hawaii
Dr. Clyde Tamaru and Ms. Karen Brittain of the University of Hawaii are important partners in Rising Tide Conservation. Karen has been focusing on looking at all things related to broodstock...
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Yellow Tang… so close, yet so far… – Update from OI
Day 60 yellow tang larvae. Photo credit: Dean Kline.Since we last wrote at Day 50, we’ve observed a lot of interesting things with our yellow tang larvae. Probably the most important thing we observed...
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Brood Stock Management, Spawning and Egg Collection of the Purple Masked...
Female P. venusta (note the light precaudal band). Photo credit: Leighton Lum.Paracentropyge venusta were identified as a good candidate for captive breeding since they often do not adjust well to...
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Larval Rearing of the Purple Mask Angelfish
3 day old P. venusta larvae. Photo credit: Karen Brittian.Larval rearing trials began with the spawning of a Paracentropyge venusta pair in the summer of 2013. The first successful larval rearing...
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Milletseed Butterflyfish Larvae Update
Figure 1. A 35 day old milletseed butterflyfish larva with morepronounced dorsal spines. During this recent trial, larvae displayedgreater development in a shorter period of time.It’s been a while...
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