rotifer floss

[shifty51008]

does anyone else use the rotifer floss in their rotifer cultures?
http://www.reedmariculture.com/product_instant_zooplankton.php#rotiferfloss

This is the 1st time I have tried to raise rotifers and I am following the directions on the reed website, I got the rotifers on friday temp acclimated them and placed them in my 5 gal bucket filled with 4 gal. of 1.017 sgadded the floss and a airpump. Today I am gonna split the culture into 2, just to be on the safe side for if 1 crashes.

Everything looks great, I can take an old empty brine shrimp vial and fill it up with rotifer water and I can see alot of rotifers in it swimming around. My question is this, I feed with RGcomplete till the water is a green tint and place the lid back on, after about 6 hours the water is almost clear so I add more RGcomplete however the rotifer floss is turning dark green, is the reason the rotifer food is being used up so fast because the rotifers are eating it or is it because the floss is just sucking it up?

TIA

 

[mwilliams62]

It might be are maybe you just have that many rits in there. Just not sure if I would feed again that soon. I don't use the floss. Maybe someone else on here has and has the answer to your question. I have three buckets going did have four but a lot was dieing before I could use them.

 

[mwilliams62]

Also I forgot to mention but you might want to bring the salinity up just a little "slowly" to about 1.020 or 1.022 depending on the salinity that the fry /broodstock water is at. So when you go to fedd them to the fry they won't die from shock. I try to keep mine at 1.020.

 

[shifty51008]

my DT is at 1.023 which is what the fry tank will also be at, I have heard as long as it is within .007 diffrence they should be fine. I will raise the sg of the rots up to around 1.019-1.020 just to be closer though.

 

[reefstew]

Why do you have a lid on the bucket? I keep mine on a shelf with a shower curtain covering the area for cross contamination but their is plenty of air around it.

 

[GreshamH]

Lids harm nothing and protect both contamination as well as helps reduce evap.