Anyone looking for Rotifers?

[miracles38]

A friend has a culture going. If anyone needs some, we can bring them to the meeting tonight. LMK

 

[JahReefster]

To culture, or just to introduce into a refugium? If the latter, sure, who wouldn't want them?

 

[miracles38]

You can do whatever you like with them. Good for feeding LPS.

 

[xia]

Awesome! I'd like some. Do you happen to have the directions for culturing them? At WMC I spoke with reed mariculture, I think you just feed phyto, and harvest half everyday. I think you also use a bubbler and you don't need a light. Can't remember correctly though.

 

[JahReefster]

Cool. I'd love to have some, then.

 

[miracles38]

Okay, I'll bring some. Michael can answer any questions about how to culture them tonight. See you there!

Oh yeah, you should bring a little jar or something. I think we will only have one container.

 

[tfp]

hi kim,
don't know if you'll get this in time, but i'll try some too

tim

 

[Nu2SW]

Ill take a little bit if there is some....

 

[miracles38]

I'll bring as much as possible. Bring a container if you want some.

 

[JahReefster]

Looks like I won't be able to make the meeting after all. More for Tim and the boys, I guess. Thanks anyway.

 

[GreshamH]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7965817#post7965817 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by xia
Awesome! I'd like some. Do you happen to have the directions for culturing them? At WMC I spoke with reed mariculture, I think you just feed phyto, and harvest half everyday. I think you also use a bubbler and you don't need a light. Can't remember correctly though.

Thats a pretty simplifed version

We continually dose phytoplankton (Rotifer Diet HD), and chloramx. We have a flow thru system (new water introduced every second). We use 50ul screen to stop rotis from "flowing out" with the waste. We dose pure O2, plus use normal air for the bubbler. We harvest around 60% daily. We also clean out our rofiter floss daily. Oh, and not to mention, we take counts of eggs per adult, adults per ml, and ciliates (when present). We typically get 5K per ml, most people get 500 per ml.