by Jay Hemdal | Apr 27, 2014 | CORAL - Jay Hemdal, Marine
A Marine Fish Propagation System at the Toledo Zoo by Laurie Dixon, Toledo Zoo Aquarium lead keeper You’ve heard the saying, “It takes a village to raise a child.” Well, it can take thousands of copepods to raise one larval fish. Our curator of fishes, Jay Hemdal, and...
by CORAL Magazine | Mar 4, 2014 | Marine, News & Notes
Last summer, we shared the first exciting update on a Rising Tide Conservation breeding project focusing on the Milletseed or Lemon Butterflyfish, Chaetodon miliaris, from the team at University of Florida’s Tropical Aquaculture Lab. Now, approximately 7 months...
by Jay Hemdal | Aug 21, 2009 | CORAL - Jay Hemdal, Marine
I first raised clownfish when I worked for the Shedd Aquarium back around 1986. Myself and another aquarist worked on raising some skunk clownfish, but since we did not have rotifers, we used “algae squeezings” basically microbes that we isolated from algal mats...
by Matthew L. Wittenrich | Jun 11, 2008 | CORAL - Matthew L. Wittenrich, Marine
First in a Series on Zooplankton – by Matthew L. Wittenrich Copepods are small or microscopic crustaceans ubiquitous in nearly all aquatic environments. They teem, mostly unseen to the naked human eye, in all types of water — marine, fresh, brackish — and even...
