rotifer and phyto set up!
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_shorty_
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Im brand new to all this, so Can someone explain in detail how the floss is used? I'm struggling with this concept...
I'm guessing 'the crud' falls down into and gets trapped in the floss ( which is basically a tight mesh cloth) ? How do you remove it without taking the whole culture with it?
Anyone have pics of it installed?
d0ughb0y
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you don't need the floss. what is more essential is a sieve. I just use a metal coffee filter. You can do a double sieve by using a brine shrimp net to filter out larger particles first. When you do your water change, you can pour all the contents out and pass it through the brine shrimp net then into the coffee filter. Then just release the rotifers captured in the coffee filter in a new container with clean water (its up to you if you want to reuse 50 or 60% of the old water or just do 100%. I find the only way to completely get rid of ammonia is to do 100% water change.
Dapg8gt
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Can you post the link, or PM me the link, so I can get that corrected. We haven't offered will call in many years, that must have fallen through the cracks
Ill look again to see if I can find it.. I just saw it researching all the different foods and cruising all the different names it's sold under on the main page..
shifty51008
12-5 Chiefs record
i really can't take pics of mine as the green water blocks it but all I do is set it on the bottom of my 5 gal. bucket. every morning I use it to wipe off the bottom and sides of the bucket and pull it out, hang it over the bucket for about a min to drain off and go rinse it off under the sink. you would think it would trap the rotifers but I have not noticed any diffrence in my rotifer population with or without it, but using it makes a big diffrence in how clean the buckets stay.
Ron Popeil
Love them clownfish.
im finally having success with my rotifers. i believe the starting culture i received initially wasnt doing very well to begin with.
i currently am running two 5 gallon buckets. i have a single rigid airline tube extending to the bottom and have the bubbles creating a soft rolling boil. one bucket is heated to 80 degrees. the other is closer to 75 degrees. both have a salinity of 1.020. i have ammonia alerts in each bucket.
i am feeding RGcomplete twice a day, approximately 1 mL per bucket.
every three days i am putting in my sieve and draining approximately 1/3 to 1/2 of the water out. i have decided to not scrape the sides and the bottom as it just fouls the water and annoys me. i squirt a few drops of seachem prime into the buckets to assist with the ammonia detoxicant already present in RGcomplete.
there is a single 24w fluorescent lamp that stretches across both buckets.
so far this has worked very well for me. i am seeing very rich rotifer production as well as copepods that are also present in the buckets.
i currently am running two 5 gallon buckets. i have a single rigid airline tube extending to the bottom and have the bubbles creating a soft rolling boil. one bucket is heated to 80 degrees. the other is closer to 75 degrees. both have a salinity of 1.020. i have ammonia alerts in each bucket.
i am feeding RGcomplete twice a day, approximately 1 mL per bucket.
every three days i am putting in my sieve and draining approximately 1/3 to 1/2 of the water out. i have decided to not scrape the sides and the bottom as it just fouls the water and annoys me. i squirt a few drops of seachem prime into the buckets to assist with the ammonia detoxicant already present in RGcomplete.
there is a single 24w fluorescent lamp that stretches across both buckets.
so far this has worked very well for me. i am seeing very rich rotifer production as well as copepods that are also present in the buckets.
shifty51008
12-5 Chiefs record
Thats great news, it can get fusterating when you seem to be doing everything right with no luck. I have just learned you have to do things your own way.
The Rotifer Floss is a passive filter that collects rotifer poop and algae flock. Its hung vertically in the water column. Just look at how the CCS is set-up to see what I am speaking of:
http://apbreed.com/product_compact_culture_system.php
We employee a standpipe that the floss is wrapped around in that system. In other systems we sanwhich it between gutter guard mesh and hang that in the culture. We use stainless steel bolts zip-tied to the mesh to weigh on side down.
