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I just started my rotifer culture yesterday and I've been feeding dead fridge chlorella concentrate and spirulina powder so far.
I read everywhere that live phytos are the best when it comes to culturing rotifers. They are nutritionally better, grow faster and it doesn't pollute the water as fast.
So I've been looking for some phyto, Nannochloropsis in particular, since I hear they are the easiest to culture and are quite versatile. I thought I could also use it to feed my pods. They are not easy to find here since reefing is not as popular as in some of the other countries but I managed to find an aquaculture company selling them and the fertilizer. I've talked to them over the phone and they've told me it would be very difficult if not impossible to sustain a live rotifer culture at home with just the live phyto cultured at home unless I get a massive phyto culture going.
Is this true? I got the impression that many hobbyists were culturing them both around the world but I guess I couldn've been wrong all along. I plan on culturing about 2~3 plastic bottles of rotifers. I will be using the rotifers to feed the shrimp larvae but it won't be the only thing I will be feeding them and the idea is to diversify the feed.
The aquaculture guys also told me that the risk of the phyto culture crashing would be too high for home culture and it wouldn't be worth it (plus they were very expensive, over a hundred USD each for the phyto and f/2 fertilizer so I won't be buying from them either way).
I could still buy them from elsewhere but would I be better off just sticking to the algae paste?
I read everywhere that live phytos are the best when it comes to culturing rotifers. They are nutritionally better, grow faster and it doesn't pollute the water as fast.
So I've been looking for some phyto, Nannochloropsis in particular, since I hear they are the easiest to culture and are quite versatile. I thought I could also use it to feed my pods. They are not easy to find here since reefing is not as popular as in some of the other countries but I managed to find an aquaculture company selling them and the fertilizer. I've talked to them over the phone and they've told me it would be very difficult if not impossible to sustain a live rotifer culture at home with just the live phyto cultured at home unless I get a massive phyto culture going.
Is this true? I got the impression that many hobbyists were culturing them both around the world but I guess I couldn've been wrong all along. I plan on culturing about 2~3 plastic bottles of rotifers. I will be using the rotifers to feed the shrimp larvae but it won't be the only thing I will be feeding them and the idea is to diversify the feed.
The aquaculture guys also told me that the risk of the phyto culture crashing would be too high for home culture and it wouldn't be worth it (plus they were very expensive, over a hundred USD each for the phyto and f/2 fertilizer so I won't be buying from them either way).
I could still buy them from elsewhere but would I be better off just sticking to the algae paste?