The Breeder's Registry

Capnella remains a great choice for home aquarium reproduction.

Thanks to Tennessee Aquarium for the excellent Aquarium at Home overview of the operation of their Secret Reef larval lab:

Congratulations to the husbandry team at Birch Aquarium at Scripps for their first-ever successful egg transfer, fertilization, and in-house hatching of the Weedy Seadragon!

Congrats to the team at Horniman Museum and Gardens on a successful first run of Striped Shrimpfish (Aeoliscus strigatus)! Hopefully aquacultured shrimpfish will become available in the future and will fare better in aquariums than wild-caught do.

Sixty Melanurus wrasses settling out in this cohort! Congrats to the team at UF/IFAS!!

It’s good to see such progress in sexual reproduction of corals in aquariums. The knowledge gained is so important to the conservation and successful restoration of coral reefs throughout the world.

Congratulations to Keri O’Neil and everyone involved in the first-ever Aquarium spawning of these endangered Caribbean corals!

A huge wave of thanks for the generous support from Two Little Fishies, who are helping us to develop and promote marine ornamental fish aquaculture research!

Great work by Grace Sowaske at US/IFAS TAL on identifying the best algae (Tisochrysis lutea) to add to culture tanks so larval tangs and wrasses are better able to capture prey.

Just fantastic! Congratulations to Sustainable Aquatics.

How time flies! The very first Rising Tide Conservation aquarium-bred Pacific Blue Tangs (Paracanthurus hepatus) are now old enough to be spawning themselves!

This was a few months ago, but aquarists are still talking about the success of using indoles to induce polyp strobilation in aquarium jellies: http://www.deepseanews.com//new-research-reveals-how-to-e/

Here’s a great opportunity: Joint Internship in Aquaculture Mystic Aquarium has partnered with the Marine Science Magnet High School of Southeastern Connecticut to offer a Joint Internship in Aquaculture for the Fall 2018 Semester. The Joint Intern will be based at the Marine Science Magnet High School, where he/she will conduct:... Aquaculture Operations: Phytoplankton culture; zooplankton culture; broodstock fish management, conditioning, and spawning; egg incubation; larval fish rearing; growout; system maintenance; and water quality monitoring Aquaculture Research: Literature review; experimental design, data collection & analysis Aquaculture Education: Presentations for students of the Marine Science Magnet High School, as well as Mystic Aquarium staff and volunteers; and design and implementation of laboratory activities for students of the Marine Science Magnet High School The Joint Intern will participate in Mystic Aquarium’s: Intern Education Program: Orientation, weekly career development seminars, at least one intern social, and semester-end project presentation and evaluation Research Department: Journal Club, Ridgway Research Seminar Series Eligibility: The candidate must hold a Bachelor of Science (BS) or Bachelor of Arts (BA) in a related field (e.g., Aquaculture, Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Studies, Marine Science, Zoology, etc.). The candidate may be either a recent college graduate, having received his or her BS or BA within the previous two years, or the candidate may be a current graduate student, actively enrolled in an academic program in a related field leading to a Master of Science, Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy, or Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree. Application Deadline: May 31, 2018 For More Info and To Apply: http://www.mysticaquarium.org/careers/internships/

Do you like sea anemones? If so, I would love to hear from you. My name is Nicola Fraser, I’m a PhD student at Southern Cross University in Australia, and I’m really keen to learn about sea anemones in the marine aquarium trade. As part of my project, I’m interested in which sea anemones you keep or sell, or would like to keep or sell. This important information will help us understand the marine aquarium trade as it relates to sea anemones because it will tell us which speci...es are the most popular, and why. There is a short introductory video below. If you would like to be involved, please click a link below. The survey will take 10 - 20 minutes. Invitation video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZer-is4FmU Aquarist survey link: https://survey.sogosurvey.com/r/iyO3Xi Business survey link: https://survey.sogosurvey.com/r/hKjYHS

Great news from Rising Tide Conservation as the team in Florida raise yet another popular aquarium species!

People always ask what kind of article are we looking for the online Journal of MaquaCulture? Here's a perfect example written by Martin Moe way back in 1966: