Hello fellow saltines,
I purchased a bottle of mixed rotifers/pods and live phyto (it's not reef nutrition because my last was out of stock of what I wanted). The mixture contained pods: tisbe biminiensis and rotifers: brachionus privatizing and brachionus rotundiformis. The bottle had live phyto in it to feed them so I couldn't see them. It just looked like green water. I added about 3/4 of the bottle over the course of the few days after lights out and with flow off. The remainder of the bottle I used in a bucket to hopefully culture. The problem is I don't see anything in the bucket after adding them. I guess it's possible all of them went into my tank and there was only green water left so my question is... should I be able to see these without a microscope?
Also how do folks add these to their tanks. Just stick a net or glass in the culture container to grab a bunch and add to the tank or do you strain them first (and what micron strainer)? Also, does anyone know what temp to culture these at? It just says room temp on the site where I bought these and I have also seen room temp elsewhere but room temp is different to different people. I keep my house between 70-75. I added a small 10w constant temp heater to the bucket (meant for 2-5g) but it is too much for the amount of water I'm keeping in the bucket (it pushed the temp to about 93. I'm using an aistone for aeration and feeding live phyto from the extra bottle I purchased.
I contacted the company with these questions but haven't heard back yet.
I purchased a bottle of mixed rotifers/pods and live phyto (it's not reef nutrition because my last was out of stock of what I wanted). The mixture contained pods: tisbe biminiensis and rotifers: brachionus privatizing and brachionus rotundiformis. The bottle had live phyto in it to feed them so I couldn't see them. It just looked like green water. I added about 3/4 of the bottle over the course of the few days after lights out and with flow off. The remainder of the bottle I used in a bucket to hopefully culture. The problem is I don't see anything in the bucket after adding them. I guess it's possible all of them went into my tank and there was only green water left so my question is... should I be able to see these without a microscope?
Also how do folks add these to their tanks. Just stick a net or glass in the culture container to grab a bunch and add to the tank or do you strain them first (and what micron strainer)? Also, does anyone know what temp to culture these at? It just says room temp on the site where I bought these and I have also seen room temp elsewhere but room temp is different to different people. I keep my house between 70-75. I added a small 10w constant temp heater to the bucket (meant for 2-5g) but it is too much for the amount of water I'm keeping in the bucket (it pushed the temp to about 93. I'm using an aistone for aeration and feeding live phyto from the extra bottle I purchased.
I contacted the company with these questions but haven't heard back yet.