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09-14-2002, 08:30 PM
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culturing station
Anyone here raise there own rotifers? I am completing my cukturing station tommorow and will begin raising rotifers and phyto for my 120 sps reef. Personal experience appreciated/
MROK12
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09-15-2002, 09:50 AM
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Your cukturing station
cukturing hehe
The number one thing to remember is never ever ever cross contaminate. Its ok to drip some phyto into the rotifers but one drop of rotifers into the phyto culture would wipe out the phytos in no time flat! Some ppl culture their phyto in a stair-step fashion where the phyto is above the rotifers....some ppl totally seperate them from each other....some ppl have multiple cultures and refresh half of their cultures at one time that way by the time the next batch of rotis and phyto are ready to culture they can tell if the first set crashed....Also try to enrich your rotifers before you feed them to your tank....you can enrich with some dense phyto for about 10-15minutes....You want to get their guts full...some ppl even use zoe or selcon...this makes your rotis much more nutritional. |
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09-15-2002, 10:02 AM
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Always a wealth of knowledge rocky!!!! Thanks again. I am off to HD to procure the needed lumber
Mike
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09-15-2002, 03:08 PM
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Ok so I am done...Notjing fancy here but it will be functional!!!
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09-15-2002, 05:55 PM
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Lookin good!
Very functional!
Ok im gonna throw some more things that you dont really need but comes in handy....sorry I should have given you this information earlier. I know you are wanna measure you density cultures. For $7 you can buy a density stick Density Stick and of course you will need a rotifer seive which will take the rotifers out of your cultures....DONT just dump the water into the tank...its loaded with ammonia and waste! Rotifer Seive And lastly here is Roti Rich which is a Rotifer supplement to enrich your rotifers full of nutritional value Roti Rich Oh yeah if you want a killer book Plankton book Last edited by scubadude; 09-15-2002 at 06:02 PM. |
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09-15-2002, 09:55 PM
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Got the stick, got the roti rich.....Nedd the sleeve, got wilkinsons book on clownfish. I got the disk blooming right now and in the morning I am gonna split it between the first 2-2L bottles and start it up.
Thanks for all the help scuba Mike
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09-16-2002, 12:55 PM
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I have cultured rotifers and microalgae in the past. My setup was pretty similar to yours. Ditto on everything scubadude said. Be careful not to cross-contaminate. And here's another recommendation for the "Plankton Culture Manual." It's essential. Wilkerson's section on culture is pretty decent too.
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