live food for tank

[saltank]

Anyone cultivate and feed live food to your reef tank, other than brine shrimp? Such as plankton, pods, etc

If not doing it does anyone know where there is information on the matter? I just think that the animals in our tanks would benefit so much more from live food than frozen???

And it might be a really neat project to have my children involved with....

 

[mr_X]

http://fmel.ifas.ufl.edu/culture.htm

http://www.reed-mariculture.com/copepod/care.asp

http://www.seahorse.org/library/articles/phyto.shtml

that should keep you and the kids busy for a while :wink:

 

[ChrisRD]

Our online mag (Advanced Aquarist) has a bunch of articles...
Growing Phytoplankton
Culturing Rotifers
Home Ciliate Culture
Brine Shrimp Home Culture
Copepod Home Culture
HTH

 

[SnowManSnow]

does anyone here actually DO THIS?>??

 

[Anonymous]

I do. I grow tiny copepods, brine shrimp to adulthood and unicellular algae. it is really easy once it is set up and I rarely do anything but harvest. But, it is space consuming. I have a room behind my tanks.

 

[Anonymous]

www.marinebreeder.org
www.projectdibs.com

Both sites have major info on what you seek and members to answer just about any level of question.

SnowManSnow, I do as well at home and at work