I'm trying to culture copepods for seahorse fry, but it's very slow going. My culture has been up for about 4 weeks now, and there are many more copepods than I started with, but not nearly enough to feed a batch of hungry baby seahorses...I've been feeding them food pellets but am trying a "recipe" for green water in the hopes that that increases the population. I'm going to divide the culture I started into 3 or 4 smaller (hopefully soon to be larger!) cultures, in case one or more cultures crashes, I want to have a back-up. The copepods occur naturally in my main seahorse tank, so I harvested some from there, to start my culture.
I also decap and hatch brine, but it's not a very nutritious food, but it fills 'em up in a pinch.
I've got amphipods coming out my ears...I bought a culture of those, and I've got them going in several containers/tanks, including in my refugium, in a bucket, even in a basin outside (brrr it's been in the 40s at night here last few nights) but they are virtually indestructible.
I haven't tried rotifers, but I don't think I can sustain them....they are feral and reproduce usually too quickly to keep them fed, and then the cultues crash. However, if anybody reading this has rotifer cultures..and wants to share, I'll give it the old college try
Jenn
I also decap and hatch brine, but it's not a very nutritious food, but it fills 'em up in a pinch.
I've got amphipods coming out my ears...I bought a culture of those, and I've got them going in several containers/tanks, including in my refugium, in a bucket, even in a basin outside (brrr it's been in the 40s at night here last few nights) but they are virtually indestructible.
I haven't tried rotifers, but I don't think I can sustain them....they are feral and reproduce usually too quickly to keep them fed, and then the cultues crash. However, if anybody reading this has rotifer cultures..and wants to share, I'll give it the old college try
Jenn
