adding Live rotifers

[TucanSam007]

Should I dump them in my fuge, main tank, or a little bit of both. I get these from the lfs I work at so I add them twice a week or is one bag full enough to start a population going. Will they get skimmed out eventually? any info form you guys that feed live rotifers let me know if you have seen any improvements in your sps thanks!

 

[hvacman250]

Rotifers are a good coral food, but as a one time feeding only. They will not reproduce in your closed system. They need more phyto to survive and breed than your tank could withstand.

Keep bringing them home or culture them yourself in a bucket.

 

[takayan]

hvacman250,
Did you have some improvement after you started adding live roti?

 

[TucanSam007]

Thanks for the info hvacman! Looks like I'll have to bring some home occasionally. I was under the wrong impression thinking that they would reproduce in my system. The buckets i get them from has a yellowish tint (probably all the phyto they are feeding on). Any improvements after you started feeding live roti? I heard they are great for newly hatched clowns im really hoping my pair breed soon, still have some more reading to do on that though!

 

[hvacman250]

Thanks for the info hvacman! Looks like I'll have to bring some home occasionally. I was under the wrong impression thinking that they would reproduce in my system. The buckets i get them from has a yellowish tint (probably all the phyto they are feeding on). Any improvements after you started feeding live roti? I heard they are great for newly hatched clowns im really hoping my pair breed soon, still have some more reading to do on that though!

Thats the only reason I feed my reef rots; because I culture them for newly hatched clowns and I have them leftover. They are very simple to culture. I use 5 gallon buckets with an airline (no airstone) and filter floss. Add Rotifer Diet by Reed Mariculture (phyto) every day to tint the water green. I harvest every other day. If I have fry, they get the rots; if I don't, the reef gets them.

As for an improvement, who knows?? My reef is about to hit a year old, so most of the corals are very young. I am 100% SPS. Well, not 100%, but other than a candy cane that I have yet to find a buyer for and a rogue mushroom and some rogue zoas, Im all SPS. Corals are growing good, but I cannot say its because of the rots. I also feed Oyster Feed from Reef Nutrition very couple days.

 

[Mantis]

I've been doing the same as I have been raising Australian Black and White clownfish. If I don't have any fry that need rots, I feed them to my reef.

 

[allsps40]

Pods and mysis will reproduce in the aquarium regularly and are a good food source for corals and fish alike.

 

[90reefernyc]

Question:
Do you just take a scoop out of the rotifer tank and put it straight into the reef system or do you do something else to them first?
Is the water from the rotifer culture good too put into a sps tank?