amphipod?

[CLINTOS]

would phyto be all it need's to survive?

what eat's amphipod's?

 

[billsreef]

Depending on species, most amphipods eat bits of detritus and macro algaes. Most do not filter feed, and those that do feed on zooplankton.

 

[CLINTOS]

Would a high quality dry fish food high in protein do

would cheato do for the macro?

or just a food mix of 50/50,spurlina,protein be fine too?

was going to set up 2- H.O.B aqua clear filter's with sponge on intake's

20G rubbermaid bin

approx 2 plus pound's of fluval biomax cylinder shape media with the hole in the middle would you think this will be fine as surface area?

was also going to buy a screen filter cup and maybe design a rack where all at once I can lift it while some fall through and scoop the amphipod's from the bottom

lighting I was reading something in the first sticky post on this section saying that pod's that are not feeding in the water stream don't require much light

how much light would you suggest at minimum to please micro algae just enough to grow while culturing amphipod's and keeping them happy?

does lighting effect growth of the pod's?

 

[billsreef]

Pretty much any of those dry foods will work. I don't find they really eat chaeto, but the chaeto does make a wonderful substrate for them to hang out in. They will live fine in those biomax cylinders, I also find simple large size crushed coral works excellent as an amphipod substrate. Light wise, enough to keep algae growing, doesn't have to be super bright. The lighting only effects growth in terms of growing algae on the surfaces that they might graze on

 

[CLINTOS]

would you suggest glass instead and maybe feeding just enough phyto to grow algae on the side's some time's occasionally scraping with a razor the glass once a week one side alternating to feed them?

would some extra nori help too?

I'll use a 20G with 2-normal output plant light's 65 00K
will this do?

I'll keep some macro

thinking of a high protein dry flake food instead if I can get by with the nori and glass scraping to fill in for the algae portion of it's diet

Thank's

 

[billsreef]

Not sure what your referring too with the glass? The phyto won't grow algae on the sides, thought the addition of any excess nutrients with it will contribute to growing algae on substrates. Certainly scraping algae from the sides of the tank will contribute to the amphipod feeding, so will nori. The 2 lights will work for your proposed set up.

 

[CLINTOS]

thank's