Todd Gardner: Small actions / simple tools make a big difference in marine fish culture | MACNA 2017

In any lecture or article on marine fish culture, small details are often omitted, not necessarily for the purpose of keeping secrets, but probably more often because of the simple constraints of time, attention spans, and maximum word counts. The resulting presentation includes important bullet points like broodstock diet, first food, transition foods, time to settlement, filtration, water parameters, etc. Essentially, it answers the big questions on everybody’s minds. Yet aquarists following even a detailed recipe for success will frequently experience vastly different outcomes. Some will attribute this to their level of experience, or just “having the right touch” (or not). Very often that “right touch” comes with experience and amounts to an accumulation of seemingly insignificant factors, any one of which might have little bearing on the outcome of your efforts, but in combination, can make all the difference. In this presentation, I will cover as many of these little details as time will allow, at all stages of production, from phytoplankton culture, to grow-out and broodstock management.
Todd Gardner is a professor of marine biology at Suffolk County Community College in Riverhead, NY. His life and his career have both been shaped by his passion for marine life and he has written numerous scientific and popular articles about his research and experiences collecting, keeping, and culturing marine organisms.
Todd’s professional background includes work on a National Geographic documentary, commercial aquaculture at C-quest Hatchery in Puerto Rico, and an 11-year term at the Long Island Aquarium where he spent much of his time developing techniques for rearing marine fish larvae. To date he has raised more than 50 species.
In 2013 Todd received the prestigious Aquarist of the Year Award from the Marine Aquarium Society of North America (MASNA). In his spare time, Todd dives, photographs marine life, runs marathons, and plays in a blues band.
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1st of all thanks to BRS for getting us this speech so can see and hear it. 2nd of all for me it was so educational and wonderful information that I truly learned a lot from. as I am wishing to breed fish one day. 3rd keep it coming guys there is a whole new world in fish keeping universe that gonna change the way we look at fish keeping and breeding and help our environment.

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I left MACNA 2017 thinking I missed all the great speakers while i was walking the showroom, and here on BRS TV I can really pay attention and get the info. Thanks so much BRS TEAM. GREAT WORK!!!!!

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Thanks for keep record and upload MACNA!

[@PlanktonMarin]

Lots of good info. Thank you!

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