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Found another product from the same seller would this be better for my aquarium? It is only 14 dollars AUD and the other was 12.5 so no real difference in price. (this is just the one time kit, have decided to go with culturing phytoplankton and Tigger copepods)

- 250 ml Phytoplankton
- 250 ml Copepods
- 250 ml Rotifera
- 250 ml Tigriopus
- 250 ml Amphipods
I kind of like the idea of Amphipods and I really don't need the 500ml of rotifer. Does anyone culture/breed amphipods with tips?
Hey do you mind sharing the sellers info?
 
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Hey do you mind sharing the sellers info?

If you are looking for USA-based seller, then here is a suggestion I've occasionally used (amphipods they are working out shipping problems):

And this is my phyto guy @Eldredge is awesome - I order weekly or every 2 weeks or so from below:
 

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Still wondering what to do with the extra 500ml of rotifers, can i try to culture them and keep them alive by feeding phyto?
Yup, you'll just find they consume a lot of phyto and can crash easily if not fed enough.

Similar to copepods you'll just need to keep phyto in with them and harvest a good scoop or two each day to keep the population down, I think they reproduce every 12hrs or so. So they eat a lot!
 
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Let’s get this going, the container on the right is phytoplankton and the left is copepods (couldn’t get my hands on tigriopus just normal copepods). The salinity for phytoplankton is 1.015 and copepods is 1.025 and I plan on dosing 2ml of T2 everyday for 2L, is this correct? The actual copepods and the phytoplankton arrive tomorrow so I want everything to be perfect. The phyto has very high aeration and the copepods only about 2.5 bubbles per second.
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rotifers have nothing to do with it, rotifers are used to feed newborn fish.

All pods are small, no larger than 100 microns. Tiggers are the largest and reproduce the fastest, tisbe and apocyclops are other good choices, smaller, and reproduce slower. Don't judge by the size, size doesn't matter in this case.

You can turn off your machines if you want when you add the copepods, to give them a chance to hide before being eaten. I don't turn things off anymore, I just add them.

You need a type of grow light for phyto (a pure white light won't work), even a cheap $20 plant grow light will work. If you don't have one, you can put your culture in the window in direct sun path, that works too.

I just add a little phyto every few days to my tank. There are no rules in this hobby, don't worry about exact timelines and exact percentages, you can't overdose pods or phyto. Some people never add pods or phyto, some add it often,some add it infrequently, you will find a way that works for your tank.

There are lots of videos on youtube for culturing both phyto and pods, check out a few of them to get different idea's from different people, there's always more than one way.
Lots of the videos show white lights?
 
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