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 Matt Pedersen | Oct 14, 2013 | CORAL - Matt Pedersen, Marine
By Matt Pedersen & Coral Staff While spawning reports for various members of the iconic reef fish subfamily Anthiinae have been recorded in marine aquariums over the years, to date these beautiful shoaling species have resisted being raised successfully in...
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 | Oct 16, 2008 | CORAL - Matthew L. Wittenrich, Freshwater, Marine
My recent blog entry on the microscopic gourami raised a curious question: what is the difference between larvae and fry? This is a good question and helps illustrates some of the confusion that terminology creates within such a broad field. Is a Blue Tang always...
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...
