cultures

[angels mcgee]

could these be used in the larval rearing of pygmy angelfishes?

http://www.marinebreeder.org/phpbb/ads_item.php?id=52

http://www.marinebreeder.org/phpbb/ads_item.php?id=38

http://www.marinebreeder.org/phpbb/ads_item.php?id=55

In case anyone is wondering I won't be trying this myself any time soon.

 

[Luis A M]

It has not been done yet,but nauplii of A.tonsa could possibly work.

 

[angels mcgee]

do you know of any other online vendors that sell Acartia Tonsa?

 

[Luis A M]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10098231#post10098231 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by angels mcgee
do you know of any other online vendors that sell Acartia Tonsa?

Other?Isn´t that enough?Why,you plan to shop around?
That´s what it is,two(or perhaps one).

 

[billsreef]

If your near a beach, you can collecting some wild copepods. Odds are good you'll even come up with the ubiquitous Acartia tonsa. Right now in the northeast I'm seeing some good blooms of pods and other zooplankton.

 

[moumda]

I might be wrong but don't angel larva need plankton to survive? The pods would be too big in the fishes planktonic state.

 

[billsreef]

Mid water swimming pods are plankton Though it's usually not the adults we want for newly hatched larval shrimp, but the nauplii which are smaller than brine shrimp nauplii and generally more nutritious than rots and with a swimming behaviour that is better at eliciting a feeding response than rots.

 

[moumda]

My bad. I though most copepod larva are fairly large from birth, 1/3 the size of bbs. Of course there are lots of varities...