Recent content by ToddGardner

My pair seems to be doing well. My question was actually about breeding.

I do not have a pistol shrimp, but they appear to be co-habitating in a burrow. Have you raised the larvae? How do they compare with other gobies as far as size and first food?

Has anyone here ever raised the Dracula goby? Someone just gave me a pair and I'd appreciate any info.

After raising a small batch of royal grammas about 20 years ago I decided they weren't worth the trouble. The high price of the Cuban basslet provided some good incentive to revisit the idea though. The larvae aren't terribly difficult to raise, but some of their spawning habits make them a bit...

I'm hoping, with such a mild winter, that things will get off to an early start.

Yes. At Oak Beach in Babylon.

I hit Oak Beach yesterday (June 18) with Noel Heinsohn and although there was a terrible amount of wispy brown algae that made it almost impossible to pull the seine net, we managed to find the first tropical of the year, including this planehead filefish.

Fish Frenzy is the new Reefs.com forum for discussing anything fish related. Feel free to post photos, questions, interesting links, or anything else that you feel might be appropriate. I will post updates from my lab, my aquaculture efforts, and my fish collecting activities. As far as...

Welcome to the Fish Frenzy Forum. I thought I would kick things off with a photo of my new office mate: Antennarius maculatus, just in from Consistent Sea, courtesy of Jared Goldenberg. Drop by my office in the Shinnecock science building of Suffolk County Community College any time to check him...

I realize this post is years late, but just for the record, anemones, like all cnidarians, are capable of sexual AND asexual reproduction. So they can and do produce eggs and sperm. It's generally less successful in aquaria as their gametes and larvae tend to get filtered out before settlement.

The Gardner family will be there.