MELANURUS WRASSE | Halichoeres melanurus
Photo by Matt Wittenrich Breaking The Internet: Check Out Our Wrasses! (Safe For Work)As mentioned in our previous post, six adult melanurus wrasses (3 male, 3 female) were moved to…
JACKKNIFE FISH | Equetus lanceolatus
JACKKNIFE FISH WHY YOU NEED THEM!On June 16, 2015, Proaquatix officially released the news that they’ve successfully spawned and reared the Jackknife Fish, Equetus lanceolatus (see the press release and additional images at…
YELLOW TANG | Zebrasoma flavescens
YELLOW TANG | Zebrasoma flavescens Oceanic Institute Achieves Breakthroughs In Culture Technology For Yellow TangThe culture of yellow tang represents a considerable economic opportunity and critical conservation strategy in coral reef ecosystem…
Rising Tide Conservation is on Facebook
Rising Tide has caught up to the times and, thanks to Huntley, finally has a facebook page. We're only a week old so there's not a lot on there, but…
Breaking The Internet: Check Out Our Wrasses! (safe for work)
As mentioned in our previous post, six adult melanurus wrasses (3 male, 3 female) were moved to the Tropical Aquaculture Lab back in February. After settling into their new environment…
Huntley Penniman Joins Rising Tide
A student at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, I’m currently working through a Masters program in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation. I graduated from Boston College in 2008 with a Bachelor of…
Pomacanthus Angelfish Update
Figure 1. Angelfish (2-3 years old) on display at Columbus Zoo and Aquarium. Photo credit: Ramon Villaverde.One of our first Rising Tide successes was harvesting eggs from Columbus Zoo and…
Early Success with a Halichoeres Wrasse!
Figure 1. Halichoeres melanurus egg on a 1 mm Sedgewick Rafter cell. Here at the Tropical Aquaculture Lab we’re very fortunate to have the opportunity to work in a field…
Commercially Available Porkfish
Figure 1. Captive bred Porkfish juvenile available from FishEye Aquaculture.Three years ago we posted a blog stating the commercial production potential of Porkfish,Anisotremis virginicus (Porkfish Protocol – Rising Tide’s First Commercial…
UF / IRREC’s New Graduate Students
Graduate Student Carter Cyr.I would like to introduce my two new M.S. students who will be working with Rising Tide. The first is Isaac Lee who started his first semester…