an update.
so i'm using the kiz method. i've put the rv aside, left half full...i've got about a dozen or so goby larvae separated in two 6" wide candy containers with about one litre of dv water in it. no filtration, no air.
i'm going to rely on water from the dv. daily water changes. i'm have to pass the water through the 56 sieve before adding it. bloody hydroids. i've already sucked out one that made it in from the harvest. they're a pain, but i'm living with them.
my euplotes culture is dense and i've summarized that there's about 200 per mil. after 'washing' it. i've added about 4 mils of them to each container. there's lots of young copepods and i've kept the rotifer population down. although i've seen the larvae lunge at the rotis, i don't think they're eating them. i've added tetraselmis and duna. about 10 mils of mature culture of each. my nanno is recovering.
here's euplotes and a copepod nauplii.
here's a sub adult copepod. it's not hard to see that these copepods are probably out of reach of the goby larvae. the copepod is almost as large as the larvae.
this is a larvae at 24 hph. it's easy to see that eupotes is about the only candidate that i can offer right now. as far as size is concerned.
you can see the devoloping pectorals.
the tail fin also grew fast.
i think this method might be better, and after this many tries, i'm game for anything.
there's a local fw river nearby, and i'm thinking of seeing if i can find anything interesting in the waters edge. anything new that might be of value here.
so wish me luck, and thanks to kiz.