Microfood culture: phytoplanktons, Rotifers, ciliates, Artemia, and copepods

[IrisundUdo]

Your PM Box is full :lol:

 

[GreshamH]

:worried: shoot, sorry try now

 

[Phyto]

killer thread!

 

[spawner]

You know of all the people in the world, Germans are by far the most advanced on harp copepod taxonomy. Figured you would have plenty of sources for them around.

 

[Drake1]

i was planning on culturing DT's and feeding it to my fuge/main tank. I am curious if this gives you algae blooms in the tank since that what it is. sorry if this is the wrong forum but this is the only real thread on cultures
thanks jeff

 

[aomont]

Is it possible to culture mysis successfully on dry food ? Is it cheaper or artemia nauplii is still the best way to go ?

Anderson.

 

[IslandCrow]

I don't think you can culture DT's. It's actually a blend of three different types of phyto (Nano, Iso and Tetra I believe). The way I understand it, people were doing just that, so they changed their formula to keep people from using theirs as a starter culture to make their own. That last may just be an urban legend, though.

 

[Luis A M]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9113911#post9113911 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by aomont
Is it possible to culture mysis successfully on dry food ? Is it cheaper or artemia nauplii is still the best way to go ?

Anderson.

I don´t think so,though I´ve never tried

 

[Travis L. Stevens]

No, it is multiple phytoplankton. One will outcompete the others until you have a single strain. Dt's contains Nannochloropsis oculata, Phaeodactylum tricornutum, and Chlorella. I have a fellow COMAS member that ended up with (most likely) the P. tricornutum

 

[Kmiec123]

He's askin' about mysis not Phytoplankton, where did the DT's come from? I myself never tried.

 

[Travis L. Stevens]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9125886#post9125886 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Kmiec123
He's askin' about mysis not Phytoplankton, where did the DT's come from? I myself never tried.

My reply was to this statement

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9120690#post9120690 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by IslandCrow
I don't think you can culture DT's. It's actually a blend of three different types of phyto (Nano, Iso and Tetra I believe). The way I understand it, people were doing just that, so they changed their formula to keep people from using theirs as a starter culture to make their own. That last may just be an urban legend, though.

Luis A M just snuck in a post before I got to post mine, or I would have quoted IslandCrow

 

[Kmiec123]

oooo' I c. ok

 

[aomont]

Thaks Luis,
Have read an article where it was tried but was unsuccessfull. But it´s not recent though...
Anderson.

 

[daddyyankee]

copepods ?

copepods ?

I'm still a newbie. I don't know if this was already answered, but how can you tell if you currently have copepods in a tank?

 

[Travis L. Stevens]

Re: copepods ?

Re: copepods ?

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9714920#post9714920 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by daddyyankee
I'm still a newbie. I don't know if this was already answered, but how can you tell if you currently have copepods in a tank?

You look for them at night with a red lense flashlight Most likely if you have live rock in your tank, then you have copepods.

 

[daddyyankee]

thanks

thanks

Sweet I will have to do that after work today. thanks again for the info.

 

[EllisColes]

so ive read and read and someone answer the simple question, whats the best easiest way to feed baby clowns?

 

[abgg118]

The best way to feed baby clowns is feeding them rotifers fed on micro algae (and possibly enriched with something like Roti-Rich).

And it's not that hard to keep rotifer and micro algae cultures going, actually. The hardest part is getting starter cultures.

 

[EllisColes]

ok that sums it up, thanks alot

 

[XMASTER]

Hi I have a Question I had my Spotted Cardinalfish spwan the other night I got a frw a the fry but don't know what to feed them. I had them in a 5 gal tank with air stone greenwater and Rotifers. That did not work they died after 3 days. Any ideas how to keep my next batch alive would help.

Thanks
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