Reidi Nursery
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reefer3ctj
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interesting
SaylorsReef
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Awesome! Congrats!
Heterodonut
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Good work! Care to give a little detail? Are those one gallon glass jars? What are the trash cans for? What did you use as first food, copepods, rotifers, bbs?
The jars are 4 litre. I use rotifers to start, then rotifers and BBS after 3 weeks, BBS only after 4 weeks.
I've been trying to ween them onto frozen cyclopeeze but so far not good.
The garbage containers shown there are for raising artemia.
I have more that I use for growing nannochloropsis along with 14 I.O pails also used for nanno.
This is nanno also.
I've been trying to ween them onto frozen cyclopeeze but so far not good.
The garbage containers shown there are for raising artemia.
I have more that I use for growing nannochloropsis along with 14 I.O pails also used for nanno.
This is nanno also.
Heterodonut
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Thanks for the additional info. I'd have to say you are doing an excellent job. Glad you stuck with it. Imagine where reefkeeping, and breeding marines would be if people gave up everything after 8 attempts?
SaylorsReef
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Wow! Thats a lot of nanno!
SaylorsReef
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Ray, can you give us some details on how you do your nanno cultures? I'm wanting to start this so that I can grow out brine. Where did you get your starter culture, do you sterilize the water, do you add anything to the water besides the algae, etc. Thanks!
Heterodonut
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Fantastic Rayjay!!! Can you share what you feed them and when (at what age), I am most interested in what would be the best way to get them from live enriched artemia to a non living food i.e. shaved mysis, arctipods, etc.
Sorry for the delay in replying as I've been away for a while.
The nannochloropsis was originally started from a culture from Florida Aqua Farms. I have since restarted with a concentrate from ReefCrew.
I use FAF's F/2 fertilizer and found more success with fewer crashes than when I used Miracle grow.
While I sterilize the containers between batches using bleach.
I don't sterilize the water.
The water is made up of sodium chloride water softener salt, the purified by evaporation kind as it's the cleanest. I use about 10 parts sodium chloride to one part of Epsom salts by weight. It probably works close enough to go by volume.
Specific gravity I chose to use is 1.017, same as my brine shrimp.
As for feeding the fry, I've not had any luck switching them over to frozen foods..
I started at 4 weeks of age using cyclopeeze and shaved mysis, but now, at 4 1/2 and 5 1/2 months of age, there are very few eating any commercial food that is frozen. The few that do, eat very little of it.
I started freezing my live brine and they eat that, and now that I'm back, I hope to get back to the attempt to get them on commercial frozen.
In my visits to the "org", I haven't found anyone else that has this problem of switching them over so I don't know why I can't succeed.
The nannochloropsis was originally started from a culture from Florida Aqua Farms. I have since restarted with a concentrate from ReefCrew.
I use FAF's F/2 fertilizer and found more success with fewer crashes than when I used Miracle grow.
While I sterilize the containers between batches using bleach.
I don't sterilize the water.
The water is made up of sodium chloride water softener salt, the purified by evaporation kind as it's the cleanest. I use about 10 parts sodium chloride to one part of Epsom salts by weight. It probably works close enough to go by volume.
Specific gravity I chose to use is 1.017, same as my brine shrimp.
As for feeding the fry, I've not had any luck switching them over to frozen foods..
I started at 4 weeks of age using cyclopeeze and shaved mysis, but now, at 4 1/2 and 5 1/2 months of age, there are very few eating any commercial food that is frozen. The few that do, eat very little of it.
I started freezing my live brine and they eat that, and now that I'm back, I hope to get back to the attempt to get them on commercial frozen.
In my visits to the "org", I haven't found anyone else that has this problem of switching them over so I don't know why I can't succeed.
SaylorsReef
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Thanks for the info rayjay!
Heterodonut
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Rayjay, any updates? Any luck getting them to eat frozen?
Most are eating Sally's frozen brine shrimp now.(other than 5 to 10 of the "runts of the litters" who are still under an inch in size)
They will not eat Hikari frozen brine or mysis, and they won't eat any other brand of mysis.
I'll keep on with them until they do eat the mysis.
The larger ones have 3 showing to be definite males, but I can't as of yet assume ones that don't show the pouch to be female as I've heard that some are late developers.
As for numbers, I'm down to 53 now.
The oldest are now 7 1/2 months and the youngest are at 6 months.
They will not eat Hikari frozen brine or mysis, and they won't eat any other brand of mysis.
I'll keep on with them until they do eat the mysis.
The larger ones have 3 showing to be definite males, but I can't as of yet assume ones that don't show the pouch to be female as I've heard that some are late developers.
As for numbers, I'm down to 53 now.
The oldest are now 7 1/2 months and the youngest are at 6 months.
Be happy to post updates when someone reminds me as I have a memory problem and don't remember what posts I have going.
Pics depend on when i have access to a camera. In any case, I'm getting ready to go on holidays so it won't be for a few weeks. If you remind me Oct 7 when I get back, I should have the camera for the holidays and will come home with it.
Heterodonut
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Great Rayjay, Have a good Holiday! Hey, can somebody remind me to remind Rayjay for updates?
