rotifers???

[wisco-reef]

I found some live rotifers , not an easy or cheap task in madison WI , they are in a 6oz container that claims to have 5 million intact rotifer eggs. So now my question is how do I grow them?

 

[tufacody]

search the breeding forum. You will need green water (phyto) to feed the rotifers.

 

[wipe]

http://http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issues/sept2002/breeder.htm

 

[fishdweeb]

I just ordered a kit from florida farms. I hope to be breeding rotifers and creating greenwater for them to munch on....

 

[DeathWish302]

I found some live rotifers , not an easy or cheap task in madison WI , they are in a 6oz container that claims to have 5 million intact rotifer eggs. So now my question is how do I grow them?

If your breeding clowns, I would truly suggest Joyce Wilkerson's Clownfishes book. It take alot of the guess work out with tried and true methods for greenwater, rots & brine shrimp....

 

[JHemdal]

IMO, skip the "green water" and go with "brown water" - Isochrysis algae. It is a bit harder to culture, but rotifers fed it are much better nutritionally when then fed to larval clowns (which is what I assume you're looking to do).

Jay

 

[Rod Buehler]

if you want to make a 2 hr trip down 51/39, I could give you more live rotifers than youll need to start a culture(s), a bottle of rotifer food to last you a month or 3, and a crash course in culturing. I prefer to purchase phyto (rotifer diet) to feed the rotifers. I have plenty of phyto culturing experience (49% of DTs back in the day), but still choose to not culture my own.

I use Rotifer diet from Reef nutrition, and have raised lots of clowns with only that and some selco. A few thousand percs, a few hundred Ocellaris (they raise themselves), a couple of fire clowns, a few saddlebacks, a few Cinnamon/tomato, and a few negirpes (going through meta now).

 

[DeathWish302]

I know this is hijacking the thread....BUT,

...and a few negirpes (going through meta now).

Congrats on a successful clutch! Have they continually been spawning or are they a new addition?

wisco-reef - I would suggest the drive, as this could turn your survival rate from <5% to more than 15% if you have enough rotifers. Plus you could get a tour of Rod's place which is a bonus!

 

[Rod Buehler]

Ive had them awhile, but we have never been able to coordinate things very well with spawning times. Miissed hatch dates (they seem to go a little earlier than my others), forgetting to plug in heaters, not spawning on the tile, etc., etc.. Its always been something. This is the first real opportunity. Success rates are minimal with this hatch.

 

[affordableocean]

I used Joyce Wilkerson's book for culturing rotifers. I skipped the green water and just used DT's phyto. I got the best results in the summer. Just like Joyce says...I put a 5g bucket in the backyard with old tank water from a water change and inoculated it with live rotifers. The rotifers multiplied like crazy with no crashes. I didn't even pay any attention to the water parameters in the bucket and very little feeding. Works like a charm...it's all in the book.