Feeding clown larvae

[billsreef]

SAreefer,

No worries

What Gresh said about the frozen rots is pretty much dead on, otherwise no one would bother culturing them.

 

[GreshamH]

It's me who might cross the line. You as a hobbyist can post links, etc, but me as a commercial vendor, I can not post links to my website, promote my products, etc, outside my given forum here on RC. It may seem odd to some, but the rational behind this is solid and I agree with it. It allows this sight to not be some super spam ground

The results that I have heard from people using RF as a first feed for clown fish aren't that great. Now that is not to say it's not a suitabel first feed for fish, just that thus far clowns haven't faired that well. There are some fish that do very well, but those are food fish, not MO fish

I'm sorry, but I can't help you on the feed timeline. I can email some people and see what they say though

 

[SAreefer]

Oh sorry my bad, i assumed these were living rotifers

 

[billsreef]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9418415#post9418415 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by GreshamH
Think you could petition for my to get my Sponsor logo?

Gresh,

Take a look under your name

 

[Twisted]

Hey Bill while your at it, give me one of those cool RC Staff logos! Okay, maybe not.

Thanks for the information from Billsreef and Gresham, and nice to hear you are on about the same page as me SAreefer. If I pick up on anything else, I will PM you with details when it comes to breeding these. These are going to be my starting fish, for what I hope to become a business shortly.

Going to start my phytoplankton cultures soon....anyone know how to do it with out the stink?

 

[GreshamH]

Our lab doesn't smell one bit where we grow all our starter cultures. If done right, it shouldn't smell much at all

 

[Twisted]

what about these things? worth the money? It seems to read that you can set two up in sequence and grow phyto in one and rotifiers in the second, feeding the rotifiers from the second, but then you are talking $300+ bucks to do so.
Would this give me a permenant source of rots and phyto, or will they die out over time?

 

[billsreef]

I think you forget the link or image of whatever your talking about

Culturing doesn't have to be hard or high tech. Biggest trick is paying attention to keeping things clean. Phyto is easily cultured in plastic soda bottles, rots in a 5 gallon tank.

 

[SAreefer]

billsreef, you are quite right the culturing, it does not sounds that hard to me and getting starting cultures here is pretty easy, it's just time wise and bloody murphy's law to get past. With my luck i would have the biggest rotifer culture in the country and the day i need it there will be a crach .... lol

time wise, i was just looking at the option of rather buying/importing live rotifers a few days before i need them. thought it would of made my life abit easier. I can see that cost is the biggest factor for this, but then again i'm not out to make money out of this. i will be doing it purely for the love of the hobby and obviously all the postive points wrt breeding cultured livestock.

gongrats on the new "job title" gresham