feeding clowns

[reefpatrol3]

OK, so after a year my clowns are laying eggs regularly. When I first got them i had phto and rots going, but since they never laid eggs I stopped with the culters. Is there anything easier now besides the phyto for the rots ?
thanks

 

[GreshamH]

Rotifers are easy to culture and can be cultured on numerous items. Now the nutrition of the item you are using is crucial though, so if you use something like yeast or the Martin Moe V8 method, enriching will be critical. IMO the best way to avoid that is to use a quality phyto, either one you culture or one of the numerous ones on the market.

Unfortunately the UA here stops me from talking about the products we produced for rotifers

 

[Zooid]

I think the best stuff to use for growing rotifers is RotiGrow Plus from Reed Mariculture. It's expensive but it lasts a long time and has an excellent nutritional profile. After starting to use that stuff I was getting >95% of my larvae past metamorphosis.

There ya go Gresham LOL...

 

[landlord]

Even on the less expensive end RotiferDiet does the trick for me. I get about 80-85% past meta, which for a basement breeder like me is perfect. I typically only have one or two larval tanks going at a time and the 16oz bottle last me about 4 months.

Also available from Reed's

Kurt

 

[clowns101]

Even on the less expensive end RotiferDiet does the trick for me. I get about 80-85% past meta, which for a basement breeder like me is perfect. I typically only have one or two larval tanks going at a time and the 16oz bottle last me about 4 months.

Also available from Reed's

Kurt

Thats what I used!

 

[GreshamH]

Thanks guys :lol:

 

[reefstew]

Rotifers are easy to culture and can be cultured on numerous items. Now the nutrition of the item you are using is crucial though, so if you use something like yeast or the Martin Moe V8 method, enriching will be critical. IMO the best way to avoid that is to use a quality phyto, either one you culture or one of the numerous ones on the market.

Unfortunately the UA here stops me from talking about the products we produced for rotifers

Use the Reed products & you will get the results you need. After crashing a number of live algea cultures life is so much easyer just buying the food. My clown fish batches are in the 200+ count after metamorphis.

 

[reefpatrol3]

thanks a lot everyone.

 

[NirvanaFan]

Maybe it's just me, but I don't see the problem with culturing phyto (specifically nannochloropsis). I've had my culture (seven 2 liter bottles) going for almost 2 years with no problems.

 

[GreshamH]

While nanno is great for feeding rots, it makes for a poor fatty acid profile and thus needing an enrichment treatment prior to being fed to larvae. Nanno isn't hard to culture at all, but ones with a better nutritional profile are.

We've worked it out to be about $.13 an hour if you were going to culture the amount in our products yourself.