Poma Labs is a brand new venture co-founded by two very influential persons in the aquarium world, Nuri Fisher of Piscine Energetics, and Dr. Matthew Wittenrich, a pioneer in breeding ornamental marine fish. As the name implies, for now Poma…
Grunt Breeding 101 – Courtesy of Rising Tide
“French Grunt (Haemulon flavolineatum) is well suited to commonplace aquaculture techniques. The larvae are large at first feeding and readily accept rotifers as an initial diet. Post metamorphosis growth is rapid with juveniles reaching 2 inches in just under 3…
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,…
Hobbyist documents first spawning of Black Margin Dottyback, Pseudochromis tapeinosoma
The hobbyist marine fish breeding world just took another step forward today. We may be well on our way towards adding another new species to our captive bred list – we have a report of what appears to be…
Some of the captive bred Koran angelfish may also include Annularis
We didn’t see this new development coming back in December, but leave it to Dr. Matthew L. Wittenrich to recently second guess the species identification on some of the juvenile captive-spawned angelfish they managed to rear in late 2011, as…
Captive bred Koran angelfish – another smashing success for Rising Tide
On the heals of a close call with breeding the Schooling Bannerfish, Heniochus diphueretes, the marine ornamental team at the University of Florida’s Tropical Aquaculture Lab doubled down and has just released photographs and video of what is probably the…
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…
Dr. Matthew L. Wittenrich successfully breeds the rare Lancer Dragonet
MACNA attendees always get something special they may get nowhere else. This time around, Dr. Matthew L. Wittenrich (Dr. Witt for short) developed one of the most modern and progressive-minded presentations I’ve seen, and he did it exclusively for MACNA…
MBI’s Marine Breeding Workshop, Year Two in Review
Last weekend in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, well over 50 marine fish and invertebrate breeders from the US and Canada came together for the 2nd Annual MBI Breeder’s Workshop. This one-day conference was held at the Cranbrook Institute of Science situated…
MACNA XXII – Matt Pedersen’s Story
I hope to see my fellow Reef Builders contributors jump in and share their take on MACNA 2010 in the coming days. Seeing the annual pilgrimage to the marine aquarium hobby’s nomadic mecca through multiple points of view may offer…
