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Does anyone know if the benthic copepods would prey on the newly hatched brine shrimps?
I've been attempting to raise sexy shrimp larvae in a pseudo kreisel tank for a while.
Some benthic copepods got introduced into the kreisel tank (somehow) and I thought they might work as potential live food for the shrimp larvae or if not, at least work as clean up crew. After a while, their population have exploded (so I highly doubt they were being eaten) and I started to notice the baby brine shrimps, that I feed to the shrimp larvae, started to disappear at much much faster rate (when compared to when there weren't thousands of pods).
Not too long after, my shrimp larvae batch died out. The batch may have died out for a different reason but do you think the copepods might've been eating the baby brine shrimps?
I didn't think it possible at first since the copepods were only a little bigger than the BBS but now I'm not so sure.
I don't know the exact kind of the copepods they are but they are benthic and there seem to be at least 2 different kinds.
I've been attempting to raise sexy shrimp larvae in a pseudo kreisel tank for a while.
Some benthic copepods got introduced into the kreisel tank (somehow) and I thought they might work as potential live food for the shrimp larvae or if not, at least work as clean up crew. After a while, their population have exploded (so I highly doubt they were being eaten) and I started to notice the baby brine shrimps, that I feed to the shrimp larvae, started to disappear at much much faster rate (when compared to when there weren't thousands of pods).
Not too long after, my shrimp larvae batch died out. The batch may have died out for a different reason but do you think the copepods might've been eating the baby brine shrimps?
I didn't think it possible at first since the copepods were only a little bigger than the BBS but now I'm not so sure.
I don't know the exact kind of the copepods they are but they are benthic and there seem to be at least 2 different kinds.