上周末在密歇根州的布卢姆菲尔德山（Bloomfield Hills），来自美国和加拿大的50多个海洋鱼类和无脊椎动物育种者聚集在一起参加第二届年度MBI饲养员的研讨会。这次为期一天的会议在美丽的克兰布鲁克校园的克兰布鲁克科学学院举行。
This workshop is perhaps the only hobbyist-facing marine ornamental breeding event in the country, or maybe even the entire hemisphere. The MBI Workshop grew this year from a small 2 speaker event, to a full day with 5 speakers and lunch included. Informal ad-hoc gatherings both the evening before, and the day following, extended this one day event into a full-blown weekend for many attendees.
几家公司与MBI会议的捐款和财政支持融合在一起，包括Masna Speaks计划，Reef Nutrition，Rod's Food，Reef Hosbyist杂志，Piscine Energetics，DRS。Foster＆Smith，《 Coral Magazine》的最后一刻贡献，毫无疑问，其他人也是如此。个人贡献对这一事件的成功也至关重要。要全面披露，我应该再次重申，我确实坐在MBI委员会上，MBI委员会是一群志愿者，他们有助于构建该计划并处理日常运营。
For those who didn’t make the 2011 MBI Breeder’s Workshop, here’s a rundown on what you missed.
Todd Gardner, of Atlantis Marine World, kicked off the talks with insights into how you tackle the unknown. His talk rounded things off with a recap of the 46 day success with Liopropoma basslets.
I gave a special MBI edition of my marine fishrooms talk. Other than a few tweaks and revisions, I’ll be giving this talk one more time at this year’s MACNA.
托莱多动物园的杰伊·赫姆达尔（Jay Hemdal）谈到了他们在繁殖温带物种，即猪鱼方面的工作。有趣的是，杰伊（Jay）将这种物种与阿尔坦蒂斯海洋世界（Altantis Marine World）饲养的协作方法最终结束了该物种的周期。也许最有趣的见解来自以下事实：除了温度差异之外，尝试的技术与我们在热带海洋中使用的技术非常相似。
After lunch, Randy Reed got us back into the action with an in-depth Rotifer talk.
兰迪（Randy）还为我们的幼体和幼体饲料新育种饲养者的饲料试验结果提供了一个偷偷摸摸的高峰。
马修·维滕里希（Matthew L. Wittenrich）博士最后结束了。当然，没有某种技术困难，任何会议都不会完成。
But, after a good laugh, Matt dug into a great history of where marine fish breeding has been, and where it needs to go. He closed with updates from his new role at the Rising Tide project (which we reported on just last week).
维滕里希（Wittenrich）提供了一些有关幼虫喂养的替代方法，对中cosm方法进行了磨练，不仅在幼虫鱼中备有幼虫鱼，而且有无数的食物选择使幼虫可以从自助餐中选择性地喂食。尽管这种方法可能在几年前可能不可行，但随着市售新的CopePod品种的出现，这种shot弹枪的方法可能会帮助更多的育种者解决以前困难或未经成功的物种。
当然，我不应该忘记MBI真正的全部意义。MBI以通用格式是海洋育种者奖计划（BAP），任何海洋水族馆或组织都可以参加。对于那些熟悉淡水水族馆俱乐部巡回赛的人，毫无疑问，您已经熟悉了BAP的概念是大多数俱乐部一直在运行数十年。但是，海洋繁殖仍然只是作为业余爱好者的活动，这为从传统巴斯的陷阱中学习提供了绝佳的机会，以便为基本概念创造一种现代的普遍方法。
So, for those who attended the MBI, MASNA sponsored this year’s Breeder’s Awards, recognizing participant’s achievements as they progress through the ranks of the MBI. Yes, even I was a little bit excited to have moved forward this year and to be recognized with the MBI’s first “Species First” award for my work with the Harlequin Filefish. To paraphrase Chad Penney (Co founder of the MBI for MASM), he had never seen such big smiles as people came up to accept their awards. While I can’t speak for all of us, I believe that outside of monetary gain, this recognition for achievement is one of the strongest motivating factors the hobby and industry can offer to encourage hobbyists to pursue the breeding of marine fish and invertebrates.
While a date for the 3rd annual Marine Breeder’s Workshop has yet to be set, I wait with eager anticipation. I already know that the crew behind the MBI Workshop is learning and listening to attendees with the express goal of making 2012 that much more of a success.
