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Milletseed Butterflyfish Larvae Update

Post author:Rising Tide Conservation
Post published:May 15, 2014
Post category:Rising Tide Conservation

A 35 day old milletseed butterflyfish larva with more pronounced dorsal spines. During this recent trial, larvae displayed greater development in a shorter period of time.It’s been a while since…

Larval Rearing of the Purple Mask Angelfish

Post author:Rising Tide Conservation
Post published:April 14, 2014
Post category:Rising Tide Conservation

115 day old P. venusta juvenile. Photo credit: Leighton Lum. Larval rearing trials began with the spawning of a Paracentropyge venusta pair in the summer of 2013. The first successful larval…

Management, Spawning and Egg Collection of the Masked Angelfish

Post author:Rising Tide Conservation
Post published:March 26, 2014
Post category:Rising Tide Conservation

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…

Yellow Tang… so close, yet so far… – Update from OI

Post author:Rising Tide Conservation
Post published:March 25, 2014
Post category:Rising Tide Conservation

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…

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Building a Rising Tide in Hawaii

Post author:Rising Tide Conservation
Post published:March 10, 2014
Post category:Rising Tide Conservation

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…

Milletseed Butterflyfish Update: Good News / Bad News

Post author:Rising Tide Conservation
Post published:March 3, 2014
Post category:Rising Tide Conservation

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…

Introducing Emma Forbes: Grad Student Focused On Yellow Tangs

Post author:Rising Tide Conservation
Post published:February 28, 2014
Post category:Rising Tide Conservation

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…

Yellow Tang Research at the OI – Making Exciting Progress

Post author:Rising Tide Conservation
Post published:February 24, 2014
Post category:Rising Tide Conservation

Research on culturing yellow tangs began at the Oceanic Institute (OI) back in 2001 around the same time as initial, exciting breakthroughs were achieved with dwarf angelfish (by OI and…

Milletseed Butterflyfish Larvae

Post author:Rising Tide Conservation
Post published:January 24, 2014
Post category:Rising Tide Conservation

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…

Tagging Milletseed Butterflyfish Spawning Groups

Post author:Rising Tide Conservation
Post published:December 18, 2013
Post category:Rising Tide Conservation

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 conundrum, the staff…