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…
Rearing of the Purple Masked Angelfish Using Only Cultured Food
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…
Rising Tide at MACNA 2014
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…
Rising Tide Intern Joe Frith
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…
The Golden Trevally
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…