Culturing Tigriopus californicus (tigerpod)?

[CLINTOS]

So far I decided on culturing these guy's

was wondering If anyone has info about using a
pond and how to create the right environment
for flow,high quality feeding,substrate,
harvesting,top water qualty without
a skimmer?

any info on what coral might eat this zooplankton?

Any chance I can keep top water quality along
with adding coral to the culture over time

this will be their new home for now

ignore the pump's and skimmer

 

[Myrddraal]

That's a massive grow tank! I grow mine in a little rubbermaid three-tier paper shelf. I feed DTs & flake, no water movement at all.

 

["Umm fish?"]

I use 5 gal. buckets. I fill them full of bioballs because the cops seem to like lots of surface area. I don't tend to move the water either. Once your culture really gets moving, plan on lots of water changes. Good luck! You could probably supply your whole province with that culture.

 

[CLINTOS]

LoL @ $30 for 2000 to 5000 seriously thinking about it unfortunately not enough of a market/interest yet

I should go smaller first with multiple culture's to get a hang for it
currently in the planning phase for the culture vessel

I like the 5G water jug station concept seriously thinking
of this?

What I realy want is 2-mandarin,2-pipefish,2-seahorse over time

will also culture Nitokra lacustris

and Iso/nano phyto plankton's

planning a 225G system hoping to put in 4 cup's of each pyto
a day to maintain zooplankton and natural filter

 

[CLINTOS]

was thinking of hooking up a iso and nano phytoplankton bubbling drip dose?

If I can just get away with the phyto's and fishfood would be great?

 

["Umm fish?"]

I hardly even use phyto any longer. Mine seem to be doing fine on the frozen mush that I feed the fish.

 

[CLINTOS]

I bought this fish melody I think it called

it has scallop,shrimp,squid etc would this do?

 

["Umm fish?"]

I don't know. Give it a try.

 

[hollback]

I would suggest multiple smaller culture tanks rather than one large. This will give you added security of continuing the culture. If one of your multiple cultures crashes no big deal, if your one large culture tank crashes you're starting over.

 

[CLINTOS]

Was thinking that too I will build a rack for multiple 10G's
mainly for that reason over crashing,stacking,compact etc I won't have much to feed for a while

will start another type of pod later could come in handy

 

[CLINTOS]

maybe ceramic biomax fluval cylinder shaped thing's for surface area I have these laying around will they do?

how deep of the rubble 3" do?