CoralKingdom
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I was hoping to not have to buy anything offline and i can already get the live rotifers local. I have only seen that rotifers eat the plankton, do they eat anything else that i could possibly get local?
What to feed rotifers?
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According to the "bible", Joyce Wilkerson says all you need is a little bit of green water and put it in your culture and leave the culture out in the sunlight and the it will be self sustained as the subnight and heat will help the phyto plankton grow and multiply. I haven't tried it yet. Still using my bottle of Rotifer Diet from Reed Mariculture.
D3monic_Urges
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roti-rich, nano paste and live nano are what I use. I dont do the outdoor culture because I live in a heavily populated subdivision and my back yard butts up to a corn field. I am worried about pesticides or other contaminates getting into the culture and possibly poisoning my fry.
CoralKingdom
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Would you possibly know how to keep them going? Is it just sunlight or do they need a special food also?
landlord
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I do not do it personally since I've really got my hands full with other fish chores, argh. Plainly you simply grow it out in 2 liter pop bottles, feed them something akin to Miracle Grow plant food, set them near a light source (sun, flourescents, etc)...wait a day or so, and split them.
Many of the threads within the last year or so back in this forum alone have documentation on growing phyto.
For me it's just as easy to spend the 50 or so bucks on a bottle of Rotifer Diet. The savings in time alone is worth it to me.
Kurt
Many of the threads within the last year or so back in this forum alone have documentation on growing phyto.
For me it's just as easy to spend the 50 or so bucks on a bottle of Rotifer Diet. The savings in time alone is worth it to me.
KurtIsernhagen
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Where do you get Rotifier diet?
I'm attaching a link from the top sticky thread on culturing microfoods.
It has a great article on rotifers, and how to and what to feed them, including using nonliving food items.
Its worth a read.
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=135137
It has a great article on rotifers, and how to and what to feed them, including using nonliving food items.
Its worth a read.
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=135137
CoralKingdom
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Thankyou FMarini for the link. I totaly forgot to check the stickied threads. lol. I am trying to culture the rotifers without having to buy anything offline. You said you could culture the rotifers with bread yeast. What is your success rate using the bread yeast?
"Umm fish?"
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If you haven't tried it yet, Reed's is just coming out with a new rotifer diet, something like "RotiGrow Plus." I've been using it for the past few weeks. It rocks! I think Gresham says that it's a mix of 5 different algae with tons of HUFA supplementations. It's growing tons of rots for me and I tend to have trouble with my rot cultures. I do use it in conjunction with an ammonia remover. Good stuff.
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I'm looking for some rotifers and I need them real bad
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D-Nak
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Apparently, they used to have local pick-up. However, you can now save a little money and ask them to ship FedEx Ground, and you'll still get it the next day.
