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How to Train Your Dragonet (And Other Finicky Eaters) THIRD QUARTER 2017 I VOLUME 11 How to Train Your Dragonet (and other finicky eaters) Featured Tanks: SCHNITZELREEF and REEFSPOT Reef Hobbyist Magazine 1 THIRD QUARTER 2017 | Volume 11 FEATURES Copyright © 2017 Reef Hobbyist Magazine. All rights reserved. FOLLOWING THE DREAM: ANNOUNCEMENTS MY RISING TIDE • Care to share your reefing, fragging, breeding, or husbandry success with 6 INTERNSHIP the world? Email us your article ideas through the "Contact Us" tab on our Following his dream, Zachary Mueller was granted an website. internship with Rising Tide Conservation, one of the leading projects in captive marine fish breeding. Join RHM-SPONSORED EVENTS him as he shares his successes and failures in the Our latest issues are available at sponsored events. Contact us through our rigorous world of real science. website to have your event sponsored. 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Contact us on our website! DIGITAL & HARD COPY SUBSCRIPTIONS Reef Hobbyist Magazine 5 FOLLOWING THE DREAM: MY RISING TIDE INTERNSHIP Blue Tang broodstock | Image by Roy Yanong ZACHARY MUELLER y name is Zach Mueller, and I'm currently a their work. I immediately wanted to know more about Rising Tide sophomore at the University of West Florida, and began following its blog. After some time, I worked up the majoring in marine science and minoring in courage to submit a question I had been wondering about: How environmental science. I want to tell you about do I get my anthias to spawn? Not expecting a response, I was a very exciting opportunity I had a few years ecstatic when an email from Judy St. Leger appeared in my inbox ago in hopes of encouraging you to follow your a week later. And even more than that, she had sent my email off dreams, wherever they may lead. to Matt Wittenrich and Eric Cassiano. I was excited to be having M conversations with these experts in the captive breeding of marine As long as I can remember, I have been drawn to marine aquariums. This was due to my initial passion for marine biology. I loved the idea of working to save coral reefs, and I was captivated by the thought of owning a little reef in my home. I started out in the hobby when I was a freshman in high school, and my first tank was 55 gallons. I knew that balancing my high school life and caring for this reef would be a challenge. But somehow, I managed this balancing act, and from there the addiction progressed into a few more tanks and eventually evolved to a small breeding setup. In 2012, I attended my first Marine Breeding Initiative workshop, and not much later, I started experimenting with various species of zooplankton and phytoplankton. I focused on making sure I was able to culture these species correctly and sustain them for long periods of time in case any of my fish decided to breed. At one of the MBI workshops, I discovered the Rising Tide Conservation project when Eric Cassiano gave a presentation on 6 www.reefhobbyistmagazine.com Yellow Tang broodstock | Image by author fish, scientists I truly admired and had seen giving presentations at a conference. My world changed that day. Time went by and I continued to work hard at developing my competency in breeding and raising marine fish, with admittedly mixed success. About a year later, during my sophomore year in high school, I sent an email to Judy about the possibility of touring RT's Tropical Aquaculture Laboratory (TAL), as I would be in Florida for winter break. I was told that it wasn't possible since no one would be in the lab except a couple of people caring for the fish. Although I was disappointed, Judy asked if I had plans for the summer, as I could possibly work in the lab. I spent a few days scrambling to get a resume together and sent it off. Unfortunately, I was only a sophomore at the time, and she recommended I wait a year. So I went back to my little breeding setup and the work of another year of high school. But now, I had the hope of joining the real Eric Cassiano's copepod system | Image by author Reef Hobbyist Magazine 7 Eric Cassiano and Kevin Barden's pelagic Eric Cassiano's algae room | Image by Roy Yanong egg collection system | Image by Roy Yanong scientists soon. I read scientific papers during school lunch breaks pelagicus, Parvocalanus crassirostris, and Oithona sp. The and in my free time with the goal of expanding my knowledge and experiment was to see how much ammonia the nauplii could preparing myself for what lay ahead. The months passed, and the withstand in 24-, 48-, and 72-hour periods. Throughout the next year, I asked if I could intern the summer before senior year experiment, I ran into numerous pitfalls and had very few successes. started. To my amazement, I was accepted and allowed to join the After conducting this experiment for 2 weeks, we took the different Tropical Aquaculture Laboratory under the tutelage of Dr. Matthew stock solutions to the mass spectrometer to check the various DiMaggio and Eric Cassiano. Finally, in the summer of 2015, I found ammonia levels in each container. All of them were low—very low. myself at the Tropical Aquaculture Lab in Ruskin, Florida. They were so low that we remixed the solutions six times, first with just me remaking them, then with Dr. DiMaggio watching over me, At the beginning of my internship, Dr. DiMaggio directed me and finally, Dr. DiMaggio making the solutions himself. Despite this, to shadow Eric Cassiano throughout his part of the lab, which we could not get the levels we wanted. We even tried ordering new consisted of all the "bugs." This was my favorite part of the facility. ingredients for making the solution, but to no avail. We eventually The first room was the copepod cultivation room.
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