raising brine and tigger pods?

[Drake1]

i have ben refered to this forum about my question since fish breader have to raise brine and pods. I am raising tigger pods but i would like to also raise brine shrimp to feed my tang. i know that brine will eat pods but is this true if there both in a reef tank with 400 pounds of Live rock? can the brine find and eat the pods that fast? also can brine reproduce themselve in a reef tank?
thanks jeff

 

[ryano]

If you read the sticky on the top of the forum about cultures it should help you a bit.

As far as I know brine will not reproduce in a regular reef tank. I believe they need a low salinity to reproduce. You wouldnt want to do it anyways for a couple reasons. 1- you are defeating cultuing a good population of copepods if the brine are eating them and 2- brine shrimp will quickly make the water quality bad.

If you are interested in cultuing both you should set up small tanks and culture them in seperate tanks. Then you can add them to your tank when ready to feed the inhabitants.

Also if you are cultuing both of those you will most likely need to culture algae as well.

 

[Drake1]

i have read the sticky and i am doing everything you said, i have phyto cultures, and i am culturing pods and rots in seprate tanks but i was just curious as to cultruing brine, seperatly of course, if that would have a negitive impact on my reef. it would be nice to feed live brine to my little tang but unsure if brine have a negitive impact...well the one that get away from the tang anyways. thats why i was curious to see if they can reproduce so that way if they do have a negitive impact i can just stop adding them
jeff

 

[ryano]

live brine are fine to feed and will not have a negative effect on your reef as far as I know. Brine are most nutritious right after they hatch. You can raise them to adults and feed to your reef also but a lot of the nutritional value will be lost. You can gut pack them before feeding and that will help with the nutrition thats needed. I would only put the amount of brine your fish and coral will eat within a short period of time when you feed.

 

[Drake1]

i have a question about that, if i feed the brine phyto such as DT's do i still need to supplement the tangs diet with greens?

 

[ryano]

I am no tang expert, but from what I know the majority of a tangs diet is greens. You should never feed any fish, coral, invert just one type of food. Feeding it brine is ok but I would make this a small part of its diet.

 

[papagimp]

DT's contains chlorella, a type of phyto that is undigestable by brine. i would use Isocrysis if you can get it. Plus, I'd gut load with the phyto and some selcon or zoe or something other than just phyto. and don't feed em this stuff regularly, my brine culture just munches on the bacteria in the culture vessel. This is plenty to get em to adulthood, and then gut load prior to feeding to fish/corals.