Fisheye Aquaculture Releases first captive-bred French Grunts
Late last year we shared with you “Grunt Breeding 101“, Rising Tide’s compendium of breeding the various Haemulon species. In an excellent example of putting Rising Tide’s R&D to practical use, Fisheye Aquaculture announced today what is believed to be the first commercially available captive-bred French Grunts, H. flavolineatum. From their release: The French Grunts Read More
Crested Oyster Gobies – 3 years to Commercially Captive-Bred
Image: Crested Oyster Goby – Cryptocentroides gobiodes – quite a looker! (image courtesy Matthew L. Wittenrich) – Male Above, Female Below In a classic example of hobby & scientific collaboration, word broke today that the Crested Oyster Goby, Cryptocentroides gobiodes, should be added to our collective list of captive-bred marine fish. While the news was Read More
Rising Tide announces success with captive-bred Green Chromis
Green Chromis as a species complex (Chromis viridis, C. caerulea, and C. atripectoralis) represent the NUMBER ONE species collected for the marine aquarium hobby*, yet unlike another popular bread & better species (such as the Ocellaris Clownfish, Amphiprion ocellaris), the Green Chromis evaded any captive breeding success for years. Only in very resent times was experimental rearing of Read More
Rising Tide at it again – captive bred orbic batfish, Platax orbicularis
The Rising Tide model of experimental breeding continues to prove its value, as the team at University of Florida’s Tropical Aquaculture Lab are taking down captive-bred species firsts like it’s going out of style. Images released yesterday depict post metamorphosis Orbicular Batfish that should now start growing very tall, very quickly Read More
Rising Tide – Ternate Damselfish lastest addition to “been there, done that” breeding list!
The team at the University of Florida Tropical Aquaculture Lab continue to hit home runs, breaking new ground on every frontier. Their latest success, rearing Ternate Damselfish (Amblyglyphidodon ternatensis) hatched from eggs shipped from the Steinhart Aquarium in San Fancisco, further hit home that collaborative breeding in the form of egg shipments is in fact Read More
The race to hurdle the larval hump of Heniochus butterflyfish
Dr. Matthew L. Wittenrich and I were emailing last week, pre-Thanksgiving, when he dropped a “Booyah” on me. The rest of the day, he had me cursing him in the way only friends can do. Once again, I say “I’m going to breed Butterflyfish”, spend over a year building up broodstock, patiently conditioning them. Then Read More