what's up fish tank people fishtanktv.com dustinsfishtanks bringing
to you with more from the university of florida's aquaculture lab how's
everybody doing I hope you're doing well I'm having a riot showing you all some
of this while I was there I was just a kid in the candy store but actually
unpack it and delivered to you all feels freakin fantastic it's all right to take
these videos so if you're just now joining us last Sunday we showed you
part of one of my trip to the University of Florida's aquaculture lab and then on
Tuesday we showed you part two this is part three if we've got a part for
coming as well but for those of you just joining us please click the links around
here you're the top right if you're on mobile device or down in the description
box to see the two videos and ultimately the four videos we've done from this
location we first got to take a look at the captive-bred hippo tangs and if you
think about this it's pretty remarkable especially for such a sweet fish and the
fact that they won't need to be collected from the while this is being
done down in Florida folks how fantastic is that we also showed you what just
some of the PhD students have been working on with the University of
Florida aquaculture lab and in today's video we're gonna show you more from the
lab however before we get into this video I do want to take a quick step
back and tell you how this all came to be thanks to our friends at Siegrist
seekers farm was the company that worked with me to come down and do this it was
say any more at Siegrist who I literally had a five-second conversation with at
the aquatic experience of how I'd love to somehow get down there and see what
they all had going on so five years ago I went on expedition on the Rio Negro
with project Fiamma and I came back to the US wondering how the industry really
could support the fishery of the Rio Negro here now before I could even hatch
the Monday after the aquatic experience I was emailed by the always Pleasant
miss Shelby Bush the ambassador of Siegrist which I opened up a dialogue
for what our goals were for me to come down there we crafted a great plan for a
bunch of videos that aren't even ready for you all yet
Shelby and I spoke about how I was a history major and wanted to highlight
some of the history of the area folks I get to see some cool stuff but
you were going to crap your pants when you see the video I'm releasing from the
now-deceased mr. Albert Greenberg home he was the first person to bring in and
expand the Florida fish farming business back in the 1930s I went to his house I
saw his ponds it's amazing but more on that later
I also went out to eat with our friends at Siegrist one night only to come back
to a twenty box fish unboxing import from the Czech Republic this includes
some amazing of histo cichlids as well as some fish that I'm not ready to talk
about yet but we're totally amazing just breed and breed their own stuff and
probably got really refined technique as you can see here by this awesome
apistogramma I guess easy double how this look attack this is a pretty
ridiculous thing to just roll into I'm impressed
and you see us all the time I see your face smiling I got a full tour of the
Siegrist fish farm and I got to spend some fantastic time with the founder
mister Elwin Segrest himself talking about how he got started which is just a
truly special moment for me well what was one of you what was on your maybe
favorite times or like oh maybe maybe not even a favorite time but a moment
where you like you looked around and all of a sudden you're on you know five
acres it was there was there any kind of aha moments or favorite favorite times I
guess we'll need I've also got a fantastic finale for you all from the
University of Florida aquaculture lab this Sunday but today here is my man Roy
in part three of four talking about what he does at the University of Florida
aquaculture lab and joy
I love them I've never kept them I think I caught him you know I caught him in a
Amazon but I've never actually done staying away oh they're so sweet he's a
figure eight are these pure fresh I don't even know they're impressed now
with their racket okay some of those might be green spots and they look
really great on my buffers we have two green spots and be great
I'm here in Roy in the culture lab who I introduced yourself man I want to show
what's going on here say what's up sure hey um my name is Roy as you mentioned
I'm a professor and extension veterinarian here at the quiet on the
set anyway yeah a professor and extension veterinarian here at the
University of Florida's tropical aquaculture laboratory we are lab that
does a lot of work with the aquaculture industry with the fish farmers we work
with wholesalers and retailers we're trying to help out any specific problems
they have we may for example have a farm that's having some issues with fish that
are maybe dying in a small scale sometimes it's related to water quality
sometimes it's related to parasites sometimes it's bacterial but we really
try to help them figure out everything look at management get them back on the
right track and give them the the right recommendations so we deal with a lot of
different types of fish as well freshwater and marine so a little bit a
little bit of everything we really call you an Oscar there you go there's a coin
and Oscar exactly yeah we do a lot of outreach programs too so that's from one
of our outreach programs we help the producers to kind of get a better handle
on the insides and outsides of their fish so they know what they're dealing
with and also have a better idea some of the farms actually even do some of their
own parasite exams on their fishing on their facilities we kind of help train
them to do that and you know do everything we can't help them out you
made me seems to like this for a couple minutes what are we looking at here sure
so this is a this is a type of flat worm that this one off-screen guys can I got
yeah alright type of flat worm yeah it's a
type of flat worm um I believe this is a die Jeanine so it's a it's a flat worm
that has a kind of complicated life cycle but these can be found in fish a
lot of the common ones we see in the freshwater aquarium fish that we raised
in ponds have a bird snail fish life cycle meaning that they need to have the
bird and the snail right as part of the to complete the life cycle and I kind of
reproduce and make more of them and and then they kind of sit in the fish for a
while until they getting Viper and continue the life cycles so yeah
kind of kind of funky but pretty cool we deal with you know the so many different
species of fish again marine freshwater that we always are learning new things
and helping to kind of increase the knowledge base for the hobby and with
regard to diseases we also work with a lot of different people a lot of experts
around the country as well as definitely here at the University of Florida to try
to make you know our fish coming out of Florida as healthy as possible that's
awesome that's a great resource man how can people find out more about you and
how people find out more about your podcast sure the podcast oh are you
kidding me ya know when talking to my gets me on it's good actually if you if
you google my name Roy you know on Y ano and G and aquarium
mania the podcast will pop up but otherwise it's aquarium mania on that
life radio calm the University of Florida we've got a website for our lab
the tropical aquaculture laboratory so if you google UF tropical aquaculture
lab you'll find out more about the work we do here including the aquatic animal
health that my group does a lot of work in love hey thank you so much for having
me out man I've had a rise this shot with my iPhone because I ran out of
video her hand on a battery in room while other care of having so much fun
tank on everybody later
thanks for the tour man this is great Shelby you got the other camera