Hi Eric. I've got my nannochloropsis and BS nauplii cultures running pretty smoothly and am now ready to start culturing an additional food.
I just finished reading "The Food of Reefs, Part 4: Zooplankton" for about the fourth time and it dawned on me that rotifers are not mentioned. Rotifers seem to be the popular next step after nanno and nauplii and yet your article clearly shows that copepods are also a great choice.
Which would you recommend, rotifers or copepods? (And don't say both!
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P.S.
My beloved corals are mostly what came in on the aquacultured rock from the gulf. (http://www.gulf-view.com/deco_a.html). There are also a number of large clams and other bivalves and I added a rock with generic "yellow polyps" which eat like pigs on the nauplii and frozen adult BS. I would eventually like to add some sponges and gorgonions from the caribbean.
I just finished reading "The Food of Reefs, Part 4: Zooplankton" for about the fourth time and it dawned on me that rotifers are not mentioned. Rotifers seem to be the popular next step after nanno and nauplii and yet your article clearly shows that copepods are also a great choice.
Which would you recommend, rotifers or copepods? (And don't say both!

P.S.
My beloved corals are mostly what came in on the aquacultured rock from the gulf. (http://www.gulf-view.com/deco_a.html). There are also a number of large clams and other bivalves and I added a rock with generic "yellow polyps" which eat like pigs on the nauplii and frozen adult BS. I would eventually like to add some sponges and gorgonions from the caribbean.