Breeding the Orchid Dottyback

[liquid]

Does anyone own this book by Martin Moe? In one of the chapters Moe docuemnted a "recipe" he was using to feed his rotifers so he didn't have to culture phytoplankton. Would someone please forward me the recipe as my library cannot seem to locate a copy of it anywhere.

Shane

 

[jamesw]

I have a copy at home Shane. Drop me a line later on.

So...does this mean you're "expecting?"

Cheers
James

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[Anemone]

I'd be interested as well, as I continually have clutches of GSM eggs I might try to raise if I didn't have to do the whole phytoplankton-culturing thing

Kevin

 

[bgdiving]

I believe it was V8 juice that he said he used. He mentioned that 1 to 2 years ago at the MACNA conference. it worked to keep the rotifers going but I do NOT believe he had used V8 enriched rotifers to feed to fry but more as a method of keeping rotifers alive during an algae crash. I was going to try it but I think I drank the V8 juice I got to experment with.

 

[liquid]

Nope, not yet James. I just got that peppermint shrimp breeding book that was discussed on AA last week and the author mentioned that Moe had devised a home made concoction to keep his rotifers going w/o having to deal with growing phyto. I'm also interested in breeding clowns so having a recipe to feed rotifers w/o having to resort to culturing phyto would be a plus.

Thanks for looking this up for me!

Shane

 

[LeoR]

As far as I remember, Moe used "V8 juice".

LeoR

 

[jamesw]

Hi Shane,

One teaspoon nutritional yeast, couple drops selco and an ounce of V8 in one pint of water then sieved through 500 micron screen. Also added one tablet of B vitamin complex.

He added 75 mls to a 3 gal tray culture.

HTH
James