I have a question

[shavo]

I have a question regarding my fuge. I am not sure if this is a bad idea so I thought I wuold post it hear to see if people have a problem with it. I wanted to buy some live brine shrimp and put them in my fuge. Is this a bad idea? I figured they might colonize maybe. is this even a good thing if they did.

thanks,
shavs

 

[Anonymous]

I don't see anything bad that can happen. However, I feel *pods and other crusties would be a better alternative.

 

[shavo]

I have what appears to be the equivilent of the population of New york city in there now just wanted to see what would happen if I introduced brine shrimp in there. if nothing bad can happen I will try it and see, maybe they will populate and I will always have a source of live brine

 

[dnorton1978]

When you say brine shrimp, do you mean Sea Monkeys???

 

[shavo]

Not sure, sea monkeys? those things when we were kids? I don't think i ever had them

 

[ChrisRD]

It won't work. A separate culture vessel would be the way to go. You also need a steady supply of phytoplankton.

AFAIK it wouldn't be possible for the shrimp to complete their life cycle in your fuge. When they hit their second stage of development (about 12 hours after hatching) they start feeding on phytoplankton. I don't see how it would be possible to maintain the necessary levels of phytoplankton in a normally functioning reef aquarium system to sustain them (although it's certainly possible in a separate culture tank).

 

[shavo]

IMF i have no idea what AFAIK means IMO/IME

 

[ChrisRD]

:lol:

AFAIK = as far as I know

 

[mr_X]

IMO/IME/ go to the LFS, and buy some LBS, and place in your FUGE ASAP, let them procreate in your LR, and LS, and they will grow PDQ.......OK?

 

[dnorton1978]

fo shizzle dizzle!!

 

[shavo]

WTF ??

 

[Anonymous]

It won't work. A separate culture vessel would be the way to go. You also need a steady supply of phytoplankton.

AFAIK it wouldn't be possible for the shrimp to complete their life cycle in your fuge. When they hit their second stage of development (about 12 hours after hatching) they start feeding on phytoplankton. I don't see how it would be possible to maintain the necessary levels of phytoplankton in a normally functioning reef aquarium system to sustain them (although it's certainly possible in a separate culture tank).

Like Chris said, it won't work to try and culture them in a main tank.