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| Topic Started: Aug 1 2008, 08:44:51 AM (432 Views) | |
| Post #31 Sep 23 2008, 06:13:16 PM | Shane |
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i took out all but a few of my adults i have around 3 gallons of lake water sitting in an empty tank on my front porch and the algea is growing superbly, with no air pump. but anyway i was looking in there today and i saw a bunch of bbs cruising around. they must have been cysts that where in the water. anywho i think i am going to keep this water going and watch them grow the adults that i have arent doing as well. so opinins on that. 2nd question, the algea that i harvested from the gsl along with the bs, can i grow this to feed rotifers, and other live foods or is it not good? |
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| Post #32 Sep 23 2008, 11:39:31 PM | Amie |
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Suzy's going to have to answer the algae question. The brine shrimp hatchery that I use doesn't use aeration, heat or light. You just put in salt water and add the cysts and put the lid on. In 12 hours, there are live bs swimming around. So obviously, the same thing happened in your tank. They just need the right conditions to hatch. You will want to watch the water level and top it off once in a while. It may evaporate more outside. I think that's awesome though, it might be easier to raise them outside in the summer than inside. Maybe I should throw some saltwater in our whiskey barrel with some cysts. Our goldfish may not like it though. :D |
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| Post #33 Sep 24 2008, 06:26:47 AM | Suzy |
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I am not sure there could have been viable cysts in there if you collected in the end of summer. The cysts from last year would have hatched in spring if they were in water, and I am not sure they would have survived to hatch now if they had been out in the hot sun. I think your water had tiny live babies in it hiding in the green water! It will still be a while before the adults start producing cysts. It hasn't been cold enough steadily yet. Soon, though, dang it! The algae is great in my opinion for raising any live food. It will absorb the waste products produced by the culture and filter the water. IME, the hardest part of growing live food is finding a way to neutralize the waste products. But, it is probably not that nutritious for the things that will be consuming your live culture. I would use one of the pastes to enrich with before I fed it to fry or corals. Remember, rotifers, ghost shrimp, brine shrimp are only as nutritious as their last meal. Really, the cultures are just a grocery sack delivering the food inside! |
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"i was informed of some dolphin related testing going on up there" Too Funny! | |
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| Post #34 Sep 28 2008, 04:11:29 PM | Shane |
| ok new question, i have hundreds of thousands of bbs in this tank with about 5 gal of water, i want to get them out of there and place them into a new tank with the filtered tank water, since there are a bunch of brine fly worms crawling around the bottom, now how do i weed out thousands of pinhead size brine out of 5 gal of water without catching all the other stuff as well? |
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| Post #35 Sep 29 2008, 06:15:14 AM | Suzy |
| Try this: put the bucket in a dark place, or do this when the sun goes down. Take a clamp and hook a flashlight to shine in to one spot in the bucket. Or if your light is strong enough, just let the light go through the bucket, near the top. The shrimp will go to the light after a few minutes. Then you can siphon them out with a piece of tubing or a turkey baster. Let us know if it works? |
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| Post #36 Oct 4 2008, 01:12:40 AM | Amie |
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If the other stuff that you don't want are different sizes than the bbs, you can use sieves. If you place a larger sieve first (like 200 microns), then the bbs sieve (125 microns), the 200 micron mesh will catch anything that is larger than 200 microns before passing to the next sieve. If it's smaller than 125 microns, it will pass through the sieve and into the bucket you are syphoning to. I use this method alot to seperate my bbs from rotifers or tiggerpods. |
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| Post #37 Oct 4 2008, 07:16:33 AM | Suzy |
| I think you are going to a lot of trouble for these guys! I think you should start a new culture of them, in clean water. Add some newly hatched bbs, feed them for 2 weeks, and you will have a clean reproducing culture that you can harvest tons from! |
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| Post #38 Oct 4 2008, 10:07:53 AM | Shane |
| well they crashed, i dont know what happened, i started with like 100 then more came so i was up to 1000's and then overnight i went back to like 12. |
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