Transporting just hatched larvae?

[Kathy55g]

Has anyone had experience moving larvae in a bucket in a car? Do they do OK?

My pair have stopped spawning, and my LFS has a spawning pair that they have offered to let me raise the eggs. I can collect the larvae, but will they survive the trip home for 20 minutes in the car?

Thanks for any input.
Kathy

 

[SueQ]

Kathy-
I used to transport 12-24 hr post hatch red snapper larvae over 1 hour in a car w/out problems. We would bag them up, inject a little O2 and place the bag in a cooler.
HTH!
Suzi

 

[Fishboy42]

Kathy, I've transported larvae many times in just a salt bucket with lid. I strap the bucket in with the seatbelt to let them ride shotgun or just put them on the floorboard--or fill the trunk if there are many buckets. A few may die (that I usually attribute to the stress of being moved), but most suvive and seem to do fine. Mine are usually in buckets for an hour, so I'm sure yours would be ok--go for it!

Matt

 

[Luis A M]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8022739#post8022739 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by SueQ
Kathy-
I used to transport 12-24 hr post hatch red snapper larvae over 1 hour in a car w/out problems.
Suzi

Suzi you mean Lutjanus snappers?You started them with pod nauplii?:eek1:

 

[SueQ]

Luis-
Lutjanus campechanus and don't laugh too loud but we were trialing a naked ciliate as a first food instead of pods You guys get mad when you get ciliates contaminating your cultures. I got mad when I'd find pod nauplii and other unwanted ciliates in mine :lol:

 

[Luis A M]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8024309#post8024309 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by SueQ
Luis-
Lutjanus campechanus and don't laugh too loud but we were trialing a naked ciliate as a first food instead of pods You guys get mad when you get ciliates contaminating your cultures. I got mad when I'd find pod nauplii and other unwanted ciliates in mine :lol:

Naked ciliates?:smokin: meaning cilia-less ciliates or non ciliated ciliates?
Don´t you mean naked dinos like Gymnodinium?.
Keep us posted...
But what first food you were using before?

 

[SueQ]

Naked as in non-loricate; no shell. We were using Strombidinopsis sp. and strobolidium sp. which we found in a local bay. The lab we worked with on the project was using Gymnodinium, cop. nauplii as well as the naked ciliates we were culturing. They had little success, our trials were marginally successfull at best but another lab in the area reported good success using another species of cop nauplii. Many people have tried rots, artemia and cops and many have reported having ciliates in culture with them but not by their choice. So we hypothesized that maybe the ciliates had an impact on first feeding (which was the only stage we were looking at) since they were the ideal prey size and were soft bodied. Our biggest problem during out trials was the accumulation of nitrogenous wastes, sudden culture crashes and hurricanes.:mad2: I wish I had known about this place when I was doing my trials!!
It would have saved me a few concussions from beating my head against the wall!!:rollface: