The fish in my life....

[Third Coast Tropical]

Okay....I was going through all my pictures and thought I would share some of the fish/people that have contributed to the madness that is Third Coast Tropical....Some of these are from my time at UTMSI-FAML and the fish/people I worked with there. The others are from my personal tanks, the past (Port Aransas) and the present (San Antonio). I have a lot so this will probably come in pieces.


Me and a very ripe female southern flounder. My MS thesis involved these fish and I have a soft spot for them.
http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/vv138/LTSmash_photos/P2200027.jpg?t=1258947473

My colleague (Barrett ~MAAST codename...redrum) holding a very nice common snook. On this day we were pulling out all of the snook in one of our brood systems and tubing them for gametes.
http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/vv138/LTSmash_photos/P9070025.jpg?t=1258947636

Female flounder injected with hormone implant.

http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/vv138/LTSmash_photos/hormoneinjectionLHRH75micrograms.jpg?t=1258947777

Some of the southern flounder juveniles that I raised and that were later released by TPWD near Rockport.
http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/vv138/LTSmash_photos/flounderapril27015.jpg?t=1258947882
More flounder juveniles.
http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/vv138/LTSmash_photos/July2008FlounderPoker084.jpg?t=1258947964
And again...southern flounder and my hand....
http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/vv138/LTSmash_photos/July2008FlounderPoker097.jpg?t=1258948028
Close-up of Tripletail
http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/vv138/LTSmash_photos/April142008027.jpg?t=1258948079

My nice pair of Tomatoes...in Port Aransas, happy with their anemone
http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/vv138/LTSmash_photos/IMG_6565.jpg?t=1258948201
Same tomatoes
http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/vv138/LTSmash_photos/IMG_6563.jpg?t=1258948382
My tomatoes ..present day, not as happy without their anemone, but still pretty dang cool
http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/vv138/LTSmash_photos/PB220347.jpg?t=1258948463

More to come

[JimD]

Thats completely awesome! Those little flounder are way cool! Good job... ! This pic is National Geographic worthy...
http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/vv138/LTSmash_photos/July2008FlounderPoker084.jpg?t=1258947964

[Third Coast Tropical]

Present day....my newest pair and part of the future.....Onyx perculas raised by me....this is my 1st and 3rd best of the babies....I have made another pair with the 2nd and 4th best out of the fish I reared....These fish are currently 8 months old...
http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/vv138/LTSmash_photos/PB220325.jpg?t=1258948844

Same fish
http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/vv138/LTSmash_photos/PB220340.jpg?t=1258948890
My favorite.....
http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/vv138/LTSmash_photos/PB220339.jpg?t=1258948934
The other pair of onyx percs (#2 and #4)
http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/vv138/LTSmash_photos/PB220312.jpg?t=1258949005

And again....
http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/vv138/LTSmash_photos/PB220311.jpg?t=1258949063

One third of my tank move from Port A to San Antonio...all i can say is this was crazy...and I have done it again now since being in SA....no fish lost....
http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/vv138/LTSmash_photos/P9280052.jpg?t=1258949107


Okay...Pics of the WSM's and the 2 pairs of GSM's later.....

[Rychek]

Those little Onyx look better all of the time. Looking forward to the rest of the pics.... :)

[Europhyllia]

Wow. The tiny baby flounders are awesome!

[txav8r]

Awesome pics Lindsay. I need to swing by your place some time and check out your tanks.

[Kristy]

Wow... what a venture! Huge respect to the photos of you moving your tanks...

We specifically waited until we bought and moved into this house to give our first try at salt-water tanks because we did not want to deal with moving an established reef tank. Of course, knowing what we know now... wish we'd started sooner. All that time wasted on fresh-water tanks! :)

[ErikH]

Thanks for sharing, very interesting work!

[Mr Cob]

Yep, Awesome! Thanks for sharing the pics. So cool.

Where did you pick the onyx clowns up from?

[Third Coast Tropical]

Where did you pick the onyx clowns up from?


Well,....it's a long story, but these are fish I personally raised from Minh's brood. I transported the eggs from his office to my place, hatched and raised them from there. They are the same line as GCReef's fish, just older. I have a thread in the propagation forum documenting most of their early lives.

[Mr Cob]

Very cool. Don't ever part with them. I parted with my Rod's reef onyx breeding pair and I REGRET IT!!!!!

[Third Coast Tropical]

Okay....All of my Maroons are not cooperating with me for pictures...so, I have pulled up some more pictures from the past until I can get them to cooperate

My abstract snook picture....taken down it's back......love this photo....
http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/vv138/LTSmash_photos/snook11-30-2007004.jpg?t=1259035533

Cobia broodstock...not very happy that I am in the tank with them....If you know anything about UTMSI-FAML, I am sure you have heard of these fish.....
http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/vv138/LTSmash_photos/Cobia23broodstockmay2008011.jpg?t=1259035677

UT colleagues Jeff Kaiser and Barrett Fines tubing cobia for gamete production
http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/vv138/LTSmash_photos/cindyandjrweddinghurricaneike050.jpg?t=1259036008

Close-up of tubing process
http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/vv138/LTSmash_photos/cindyandjrweddinghurricaneike051.jpg?t=1259036107

1000's of cobia juveniles (less than a month old) in rearing system. A lot of research on these fish has been and still is going on at UTMSI-FAML
http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/vv138/LTSmash_photos/rw3cobia9-14-06001.jpg?t=1259036164

Cobia juveniles
http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/vv138/LTSmash_photos/rw4count11-8-06004.jpg?t=1259036297

Okay....posting this, but still more to come.....

[Third Coast Tropical]

More flounder pics....


Southern flounder feeding at surface. Some of the broodstock.
http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/vv138/LTSmash_photos/flouderpics016.jpg?t=1259036467

Myself, Dr. Harry Daniels from NC State (one of the US's flounder gurus), and J. Kaiser using a light table to see if this female flounder was able to be implanted with hormones that help with egg production
http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/vv138/LTSmash_photos/hair005.jpg?t=1259036535

Ruben Chavez of TPWD-FB and myself harvesting flounder from one of my grow-out tanks to be transported and released in one of our local bays by TPWD.
http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/vv138/LTSmash_photos/Christmas2008inJan060.jpg?t=1259036692


A closer look into my homemade (FAMLized) harvestor.
http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/vv138/LTSmash_photos/Christmas2008inJan061.jpg?t=1259037483

One of my favorite pics of flounder juveniles. I like the rogue guy up on the wall and all the other's eyes peering at you.
http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/vv138/LTSmash_photos/July2008FlounderPoker088.jpg?t=1259037602

More flounder juveniles...
http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/vv138/LTSmash_photos/July2008FlounderPoker071.jpg?t=1259037695

Flounder juveniles in TPWD's live hauler, awaiting release into bay
http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/vv138/LTSmash_photos/July2008FlounderPoker127.jpg?t=1259037756

And the release....TPWD-FB Rodney Gamez and Ruben Chavez....
http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/vv138/LTSmash_photos/July2008FlounderPoker128.jpg?t=1259037832


Okay....think thats about it on the past UT pictures.....crossing fingers maroons will cooperate soon....

[Roo&Lis]

That's really cool man!

[Mr Cob]

Thanks for documenting. This is the kind of stuff this club needs to see more of.

You should consider submitting an article to the Newsletter committee about this conservation of wildlife effort.

[corruption]

+1 -- a chronicling of where the state of educational mariculture, even if just a high-level overview, would be terribly fascinating... I'd hang on the every word. :)

-Corruption

[Third Coast Tropical]

perhaps, eventually....but not now....my photo journals and captions will have to suffice for the time being


Anyone that is interested for can always arrange for a tour of the hatchery.....

[Third Coast Tropical]

Anyone guess what this is?....I know....
http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/vv138/LTSmash_photos/Fish/JessicaRabbitzoomApril1509.jpg?t=1262668369