Rotifers under microscope question

[tonym10]

I am raising a rotifer culture for my clown fish eggs. When I take a drop of the water and put it on a slide under microscope I see about 3 large rotifers per drop. But I see alot of small much smaller fast swimming guys, they have green in them, I guess from eating phyto, but they swim fast so I have hard time seeing what they are. Are they small or baby rotifers, or are they something else?

 

[LotR Clown]

I hear male rotifers are small and fast. I'm not exactly sure, since I don't really know whether they look the same or not. I do see smaller rotifers than the females with egg sacs in my culture. Don't know if what you are seeing is that or ciliates.

 

[oama]

Most likely, they are ciliates. What are you feeding your rots?

 

[tonym10]

Feding them roti rich, and fresh bottles of cultured phyto.

 

[mako56]

Nice avatar. I have the same thing I talked with one of the Florida guys that sell this stuff and he says they are some kind of plankton not male rots. He said they don't hurt anything and mine have been in there over a month now and I just have rots coming out my ears.:lol:

 

[firewire]

how do you put avaters

 

[oama]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6819907#post6819907 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by firewire
how do you put avaters

You need to have something like 100 posts b4 you can use your own Avatar