What species of copepod are the flame angels being raised on?

[Greg Hiller]

The group in Hawaii that's raising the flames, and other pygme angels. Anyone know the species of copepods they are raising?

Anyone...Bueller...Bueller?

 

[FMarini]

..... there have been 3 groups in hawaii, all successful at raising these fish and all of them are keeping it a trade secret.
if you read martin moes (http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issues/july2003/breeder2.htm) and Doug robbins (http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issues/mar2002/mediareview.htm) commentarys about the breeding of these fish you'll see why
frank
PS Frank Beansch has let some info out
(Cultures of marine copepods, especially the paracalanid copepods that have been found useful in the rearing of Centropyge species are becoming available and techniques for more efficient rearing and enrichment of rotifers have been developed. Nematodes are also being studied as foods for early stage larvae)

 

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[Luis A M]

Frank Baensch published in FAMA the species he used.He even provided pictures of them.Wild plankton though.

 

[Greg Hiller]

I stopped receiving FAMA a while back because most of the articles were garbage. Can anyone with the article please post here the species name of the copepod?

 

[Luis A M]

Greg,
I needed some time to dive into my mess and find the mag...
The article was published in FAMA July 2003.Frank fed the larvae with plankton tows,he didnÃ"šÃ‚´t culture cops.However he found that the larvae fed primarily on the nauplii of two cop sp.:Clausocalanus sp.and the cyclopoid Oithona simplex.Pics of nauplii and adults were provided.

 

[trueblackpercula]

Thanks for the info.............