Freshwater Chlorella for rotifers?

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I'm culturing rotifers and I've run out of refrigerated rotifer food (given to me when I got the rotifers) so I'm feeding spirullina powder at the moment.
The rotifers aren't dead yet but I get slimy clumps in the culture water easily and I read the powder aren't so great as rotifer food so I'm looking for an alternative.
I've looked pretty hard but the live phyto, f/2 fertilizer and the phyto concentrates are super expensive (over USD100 each) only sold by the aquaculture suppliers or just not available here. Getting it shipped from overseas was also quite expensive (about USD 75~100 just for shipping). What I did find though was a cheap frozen freshwater chlorella concentrate. Do you think this could work?
I also read you can use the baker's yeast to culture the rotifers but the nutritional value would suck there won't be a point in using them as a live feed. Is this true?
 

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Maybe this will have some info

 
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Maybe this will have some info

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