Zebrafish Services

ACS can maintain both adults (tanks with blue baffles) and larvae/juveniles (half-full tanks with yellow or green baffles) on a single system.
Zebrafish offer several benefits to researchers. External fertilization, small size, rapid development, high fecundity (100-200 viable embryos per female per week), and optical transparency of embryos are some of the many advantages that allow for high-throughput, non-invasive in vivo observation and imaging during studies.
Two levels of Zebrafish services can be provided:
Standard Husbandry:
- Daily health checks
- Feeding fish 2X daily
- Filter (carbon and mechanical) and rack maintenance
- Decapsulation of brine shrimp (weekly)
- Daily hatching of brine shrimp
- Preparation of powdered diets (through all stages of development)
- Water quality testing
- RO system maintenance
- Cleaning of room and tanks
Colony Management Service:
- Breeding and collecting embryos -includes culling unfertilized embryos
- Preparing and shipping clutch’s of embryos
- Line maintenance (similar to mouse breeding services)
- Euthanasia
- Quarantine of incoming lines
- Other services per request (fin clip, IVF, bleaching embryos, etc.)
For more information on use of the ACS Zebrafish Services, please contact:
Dr. Karl Andrutis at 352-273-9246, kandrutis@ufl.edu or Dr. Harvey Ramirez at 352-273-9243, hramir@ufl.edu