Update:
Bad news.
I cannot get my rotifer cultures to work.
I have tried 65 degrees, 70 degrees, 75 degrees and even 80 degrees.
I have added cloramX, new rotifer diet food, sieved opposite days, etc.
I just cannot find the medium.
The new hatch is 3 days, and I lost 90% of them last night.
THey starved dead.
Luckily out of the 10-20 survivors, they are eating bbs.
Last batch were eating bbs at 2 days, and here we are at 3 days and they are doing good.
I cannot afford to use a new batch of rots for each hatch, so I am going to
experiment with other food sources such as fry diets and such.
I understand that it will be fouling the water drastically, but that may be fine
for the larvae and it would only be 2-3 days of it until they can eat bbs.
I will try to combat that by water changes daily for those 3 days.
I have noticed in this batch and last batch, that once they take the bbs,
they grow like weeds and almost double in size every few days.
The first batch and second batch are still doing great together.
THey currently feed on oto A and oto B1 about 3-5 times a day.
And bbs once a day with the extras eaten over the rest of the day.
I will see if the elders will take some oto B2 perhaps today.
The parents have not laid another nest yet. It has been 3 days since the hatch and
last gap was two days, so we will see if they go today.
I have moved the tile more deep into their cave, but they are still cleaning the rock.
I am almost fed up with the hatch night and catching.
I get about half each time, but there is always the other have that stay on the bottom.
I end up siphoning them out, and I am sure most of those are the ones that dont do so well.
Bad news.
I cannot get my rotifer cultures to work.
I have tried 65 degrees, 70 degrees, 75 degrees and even 80 degrees.
I have added cloramX, new rotifer diet food, sieved opposite days, etc.
I just cannot find the medium.
The new hatch is 3 days, and I lost 90% of them last night.
THey starved dead.
Luckily out of the 10-20 survivors, they are eating bbs.
Last batch were eating bbs at 2 days, and here we are at 3 days and they are doing good.
I cannot afford to use a new batch of rots for each hatch, so I am going to
experiment with other food sources such as fry diets and such.
I understand that it will be fouling the water drastically, but that may be fine
for the larvae and it would only be 2-3 days of it until they can eat bbs.
I will try to combat that by water changes daily for those 3 days.
I have noticed in this batch and last batch, that once they take the bbs,
they grow like weeds and almost double in size every few days.
The first batch and second batch are still doing great together.
THey currently feed on oto A and oto B1 about 3-5 times a day.
And bbs once a day with the extras eaten over the rest of the day.
I will see if the elders will take some oto B2 perhaps today.
The parents have not laid another nest yet. It has been 3 days since the hatch and
last gap was two days, so we will see if they go today.
I have moved the tile more deep into their cave, but they are still cleaning the rock.
I am almost fed up with the hatch night and catching.
I get about half each time, but there is always the other have that stay on the bottom.
I end up siphoning them out, and I am sure most of those are the ones that dont do so well.
