Copepods or brine shrimp?

[RedipsNam]

Can I culture brine shrimp? (I have a online store who sells brine shrimp in a 591 bottle) Can someone tell me how? And can they eat phytoplankton for food? If no do you think copepods is healthier and make my clownfish make fat and help them to spawn?

 

[Timfish]

Brine shrimp are easy to hatch and there's lots of stuff online and various "hatchers" available to for that purpose. Raising them is a lot of work though and the adults will not have the same nutrition profile as newly hatched one. Raising copepods is also labor intensive but if your goal is to raise the clownfish fry it will be good experence for raising rotifers. FWIW I have clowns that ve been laying eggs every 3-4 weeks for years being fed just NL Spectrum pellets in autofeeders.

 

[Pkunk35]

Not sure about the spawning question,
But I wanted to let you know that this is the easiest way to culture baby brine imo:

Wait 2 days and you have hundreds daily for days. Be careful with over feeding your tank with them tho. Yes you can gut load brine but the babies have a nutritious yolk sac so dont need enrichment

 

[RedipsNam]

Brine shrimp are easy to hatch and there's lots of stuff online and various "hatchers" available to for that purpose. Raising them is a lot of work though and the adults will not have the same nutrition profile as newly hatched one. Raising copepods is also labor intensive but if your goal is to raise the clownfish fry it will be good experence for raising rotifers. FWIW I have clowns that ve been laying eggs every 3-4 weeks for years being fed just NL Spectrum pellets in autofeeders.

I already have phyto and rotifers I just don’t know how to make my pairs to be pregnant, I have them 6 months already and still waiting, everything I’m doing is okay, water, salinity, feeding them 5x a day, I don’t have skimmer for now but my water is stable I have tdo and they like mysis shrimp so much, and beef’s heart too, what else to make them lay breed?

 

[Jay'sReefBugs]

I already have phyto and rotifers I just don’t know how to make my pairs to be pregnant, I have them 6 months already and still waiting, everything I’m doing is okay, water, salinity, feeding them 5x a day, I don’t have skimmer for now but my water is stable I have tdo and they like mysis shrimp so much, and beef’s heart too, what else to make them lay breed?

Took mine a little over 2 years to start laying eggs almost weekly.

 

[RedipsNam]

Took mine a little over 2 years to start laying eggs almost weekly.

I talked to some he said even after 2 weeks buying a pair they can lay as soon as possible he taught me something I can make for a food but still no result haha

 

[SlugSnorter]

Can I culture brine shrimp? (I have a online store who sells brine shrimp in a 591 bottle) Can someone tell me how? And can they eat phytoplankton for food? If no do you think copepods is healthier and make my clownfish make fat and help them to spawn?

baby brine are also good for baby clowns. If you are currently using pellets id recommend switching to a good frozen food (I like lrs' stuff, but there are many good brands). Chances of spawning will be improved in tanks with good params and a secure space for the clown to lay eggs, having a nem that clowns naturally host may help, although its not needed by any means.

Heres a guide to culturing brine shrimp. As for pods, they should grow in population within your tank over time, feeding phytoplankton may help.

 

[RIC13]

It sounds like your goal is to get your clown fish to spawn. My clownfish have spawned. When this occurred, I was feeding them a mixture of flake, pellet, and whole cooked
shrimp I purchased from the grocery store and puréed. I also have a very healthy copepod population in my tank. I would strongly disagree with anyone who says keeping a copepod culture is difficult. I keep a copepod culture in a 2 L bottle with phytoplankton and an air line. Occasionally, I pour some out into the display and top off the phytoplankton. Honestly I could stop doing this because I have so many copepods in my display tank—they are everywhere.

 

[RedipsNam]

It sounds like your goal is to get your clown fish to spawn. My clownfish have spawned. When this occurred, I was feeding them a mixture of flake, pellet, and whole cooked
shrimp I purchased from the grocery store and puréed. I also have a very healthy copepod population in my tank. I would strongly disagree with anyone who says keeping a copepod culture is difficult. I keep a copepod culture in a 2 L bottle with phytoplankton and an air line. Occasionally, I pour some out into the display and top off the phytoplankton. Honestly I could stop doing this because I have so many copepods in my display tank—they are everywhere.

So you just feed your clowns a shrimp and pellets? For how long did you wait? For copepods I’m about to culture them soon waiting for someone to sell me

 

[riptorzz]

I have no experience breeding clown fish although I believe they will be fine with frozen food. I do have experience with both baby brine, adult brine, and copepods. For the baby brine, you want to buy baby brine eggs and throw them in a container such as a 2 liter with a bubbler and a light, you can put them in the morning before and feed them the next morning. Adult brine gets a little more complicated I started with adult brine. I put them in a tank with a sponge filter and fed them spirulina powder but you should be able to feed phytoplankton. For the copepods I think this wouldn't be a great option but, if you want to culture them put some pods from online such as Tigger pods. I also added an airstone to these, you feed them phydo so that in 24 hours the water turns back to clear its usually about the amount to make the water light green.

 

[RIC13]

So you just feed your clowns a shrimp and pellets? For how long did you wait? For copepods I’m about to culture them soon waiting for someone to sell me

Yes, re: the clowns. I’ve had them for 5 years since they were juveniles. They just spawned a couple months ago. I think this was the first time.

If you’re looking to start a copepod culture, then this is how I did it. I took two 2 L pop bottles, washed them out, and then I started a phytoplankton culture in each bottle. To start the phytoplankton culture, I bought some F2 fertilizer and 32 oz of live phytoplankton from a seller on R2R. I poured 16 oz of phytoplankton in each 2 L bottle, added 1/2 ml of F2 fertilizer to each, added 16 oz of saltwater (sg=1.020) to each, ran a dedicated airline in each and set them both under a cheap LED aquarium light. Now, with two phyto cultures going, select one of them to dedicate to copepods. I bought a bottle of copepods from a seller on R2R and dumped the contents into the 2L bottle I dedicated to their culture. These cultures have been going on for over 14 mos without issue. I’ve made gallons of phyto and scores of copepods with barely any effort.

 

[RIC13]

Since my last post, I have successfully raised brine shrimp in an effortless way. I took 1 gallon of my phyto culture; added it to a 5 gallon tank; poured another gallon of saltwater into it; added a light source, air stone, brine shrimp eggs (you can get loads of them in a small vial), and they hatched!! Within 2 wks, they’ve grown surprisingly large and are thriving with minimal intervention (adding top of water; no food) bc I am raising them in a phyto culture.

 

[jackiemon]

Since my last post, I have successfully raised brine shrimp in an effortless way. I took 1 gallon of my phyto culture; added it to a 5 gallon tank; poured another gallon of saltwater into it; added a light source, air stone, brine shrimp eggs (you can get loads of them in a small vial), and they hatched!! Within 2 wks, they’ve grown surprisingly large and are thriving with minimal intervention (adding top of water; no food) bc I am raising them in a phyto culture.

Would the brine shrimp reproduce if you keep feeding phyto ? (Similar to copepods)