Sea protists

[nvijtiuk]

Hi all,

Does anybody have an information of sea protists in the bottle availability?

Mesocosm, I guess you should know the logic behind it.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

[welcome]

Do you have any link to it?

I couldn't find any such product for aquaria. Lots of bacterial products, but they do not impress me with their utility.

 

[nvijtiuk]

Thanks.

Well, I just thought about how protists could be usefull in completing the food web in our artificial systems and found this article:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/r033x15k34870120/

 

[billsreef]

Rotifer's are the only protist I know of that are commercially available. They are a primary first food for many species of marine fish larva. Some reef keepers also culture them as food for filter feeding species.

 

[nvijtiuk]

Yes, they are available, but unfortunately they do not represent Protists, they are multicellular animals.

 

[billsreef]

I really shouldn't post before that second cup of coffee :lol:

 

[HighlandReefer]

If you could find a way to breed these protists in your tank, you would not need many, since they are grape sized.

Finding Giant Deep Sea Protists

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQslM6ZAdnU

Thanks for the article.

 

[nvijtiuk]

Fantastic, waiting for confirmation of unicellularity.

Thanks for the slides.

 

[HighlandReefer]

Any additional information you find, I would be interested in hearing about.

 

[xian]

I frequently have my marine biology students look at tank water in search of specific protists. I have found forams, diatoms, and cilliates.

I've never seen them for sale and microbiology is not my specialty.

Do you have any resources for ID? If I could ID a species and its primary food I may be able to culture some. Much the way we used to culture paramecium in hay.

 

[nvijtiuk]

Thats exactly what I mean. Here you go:
http://www.marinespecies.eu/index.php?groep=Ciliates&selectie=23&hoofdgroepen_pad=,3,23

 

[xian]

WOW! That's an awesome site. Thanks.

Let me see what I can do. My primary concern is that I have little ability to separate individuals with the equipment I have.

I will also check with my biological supply companies. If I can get a culture I'll check back with you.

 

[nvijtiuk]

I will play here (the same problem-biologist with project on different subject but hobby-level reefer).