is it possible to culture copepods or artemia with dry goods?

[dedragon]

Wondering if i can feed both of them using yeast, chlorella, and sprirulina mixtures for two seperate cultures, 1 copepods, one artemia. Probably tigriopus, apocyclops or tisbe being used, maybe a mix to see which survives the culture best.

 

[fryman]

Sure although I don't know if the blend proposed is properly balanced. Could be good, I just don't know. You can do a search to see if others have tried like so; https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2090989614000174

You can buy food specifically designed for copepods and it's not very expensive. SA podnip copepod food is a dry one I've tried.

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

i have used spirulina (in powder form) in the past for my copepods, it works.

 

[sixty_reefer]

You can grow high numbers of pods by just feeding algae wafers

 

[Jay'sReefBugs]

Can you yes . But the yields and nutritional profile of the copepods won't be great compared to a fresh proper diet