Figure 1. 25 day post hatch Purple Masked Angelfish larva.Over the past year while working on our Rising Tide project, the larval rearing work has focused on the Purple Masked…
Samantha Groene in the Rising Tide booth at MACNA 2014.Hello Everyone! My name is Samantha Groene, and I am a biological technician at UF-TAL. I’ve been with the lab for almost…
Hello Everybody! My name is Joe Frith and I have been interning here at the Tropical Aquaculture Laboratory in Ruskin, FL for the past 2 months. I would first like…
We were excited to receive 20 mature golden trevally from SeaWorld Orlando nearly a year ago. We distributed 10 fish each into two large recirculating systems. We expected to have…
Golden Trevally grown at IRREC. Eggs were spawned from broodstock received from SeaWorld Orlando. The University of Florida’s Indian River Research and Education Center (IRREC) is the latest research facility to…
Aloha everyone!It’s been a while since my last post, but it’s been a busy few months. Though it's the kind of busy you don't realize until you sit down and catch…
Figure. 17 day post hatch Pacific blue tang larva. Credit: Kevin Barden.The newly revamped larval rearing room has been up and running since early May. In truth, there are still…
The new larval rearing room at TAL; showing the 120 Ltanks used to grow octopi in. We've also recently tested our fish species in them which we'll talk about next time. At the Tropical…
This post is in response to requests for more information about Colurella adriatica. As previously stated, we’ve examined salinity and found that although they tolerate a wide range, optimal performance is…