Rising Tide Blog – Page 6 – Rising Tide Conservation

Early Success with a Halichoeres Wrasse!

Post author:Rising Tide Conservation
Post published:February 15, 2015
Post category:Rising Tide Conservation

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

Post author:Rising Tide Conservation
Post published:January 19, 2015
Post category:Rising Tide Conservation

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

Post author:Rising Tide Conservation
Post published:November 17, 2014
Post category:Rising Tide Conservation

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

Post author:Rising Tide Conservation
Post published:October 6, 2014
Post category:Rising Tide Conservation

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

Post author:Rising Tide Conservation
Post published:September 9, 2014
Post category:Rising Tide Conservation

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

Post author:Rising Tide Conservation
Post published:August 20, 2014
Post category:Rising Tide Conservation

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

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

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…

Rising Tide expands in Florida

Post author:Rising Tide Conservation
Post published:July 22, 2014
Post category:Rising Tide Conservation

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…

Emma Forbes update: Understanding Bacteria at OI

Post author:Rising Tide Conservation
Post published:June 30, 2014
Post category:Rising Tide Conservation

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…

One small step….Pacific Blue tang update

Post author:Rising Tide Conservation
Post published:June 23, 2014
Post category:Rising Tide Conservation

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…