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| How to get and maintain a pure rotifer culture; Is it possible? | |
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| Topic Started: Aug 27 2008, 12:32:26 PM (300 Views) | |
| Post #11 Aug 30 2008, 06:51:00 AM | Suzy |
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Ok, I will try them again. When I have to! Right now, the fry I have (and the fry I hope to have soon) can eat bbs at birth. As far as my research goes, enriched bbs is as good at delivering phyto (the actual nutrition! I love phyto!) as rots, plus I can grow the BBS bigger. But, I do hope to get a few more species of fry that will need rots. But, I know how important it is to get cultures in different hobbyists hands. We've all had issues that have caused a culture to crash. So, I do not want to be a chump and not do my part! But, until I get more room in my fish room (I am going to start my new bathroom soon), it makes it a bit problematic. So, if we know Amie will be able to keep them, and Larry too, would I be too sissy to not have them for a few months? I swear, I will do my part to have strong cultures of every thing we can think of to grow in our state soon! |
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| Post #12 Aug 30 2008, 12:39:18 PM | Amie |
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Suzy, you are definitely doing more than your part and you don't have to grow rotifers if you don't want to. Besides, I have enough for everyone. It's amazing that just a month ago I couldn't find any rotifers in any of my containers. Now I have so many that it's rediculous. But, 2 of my clowns are breeding, so it's a good thing. I would love to get away from rotifers if there was a good substitute. If I can get a tank setup before putting clown larvae in, and get copepods reproducing on the glass, that seems to help out a lot in their growth. (As Crystal reconfirmed.) I'm getting new babies on Monday, I think I'll set up a tank today and see if I can get some babies in there by Monday. I'd love to try raising them completely on pods and never feed them rotifers or brine shrimp, but I don't have the nerve to do that yet. |
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| Post #13 Aug 30 2008, 02:59:31 PM | Suzy |
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I think they would be incredibly strong fish if they do eat pods from day 1. But, I might need rots one day, so don't let them go. (How selfish is that? I just asked you to do the work for me!) Really, if you one day decide you don't need them, let me know and I will take over rotifer duty. I know we will need them to do gobies, dragonettes and the like.and baby angelfish and butterflies and lionfish...... |
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| Post #14 Sep 1 2008, 09:30:18 AM | Crystal |
| I would love to not have to hatch BBS. Just an extra thing to do. All of the clowns got through meta before I ever had any BBS hatched. LUCKY! I tried the cyclopeze as amie suggested. They seemed interested, but it still seemed to large for their little mouths. They would try to eat it and spit it back out a few times before finally getting some. I'm going to keep them on BBS for the next few days and try cyclopeze again. My last batch i raised never did cyclopeeze they went straight to pulverized flake. Which was nice, but I feed prime reef so the water turned pink quickly! |
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| Post #15 Sep 2 2008, 12:48:53 PM | Amie |
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Suzy, here's a good post for you to read about the value of raising rotifers and pods together.
:D Crystal, you still ought to feed the cyclop-eeze to them as soon as they can eat it. Or even try to crush it up a little for them. It has astaxanthene in it, which is very important for their growth and color. |
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| Post #16 Sep 2 2008, 02:40:38 PM | Crystal |
| hahaha i'm a blonde. I never thought of crushing it up more! |
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| Post #17 Sep 2 2008, 02:41:23 PM | Crystal |
| oh i forot to ask. do you use the freeze dried stuff? i only have frozen? |
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| Post #18 Sep 2 2008, 03:07:02 PM | Amie |
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I only have frozen too. Never tried the freeze-dried. Oh...that reminds me. I can get cyclop-eeze for a really good price if I buy it in bulk. It ends up coming to about $30 for 2 pounds - whichs lasts a long time. But I have to find 8 people willing to buy 2 pounds of it. Anyone interested? I did it once before and now it's hard to go back to buying those small cubes for 8 bucks. |
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| Post #19 Sep 3 2008, 05:44:15 AM | Suzy |
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Me, Me , Me! How much is two lbs? How much space will it take in the freezer? |
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| Post #20 Sep 3 2008, 10:08:19 AM | Larry H |
I agree. When you are ready to buy let me know. I still have about a half of pound left. I bought some a while back and it cost me a lot more than that for about a pound. |
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