I've been culturing copepods the past couple months, apocyclops, tisbe and tig pods. I'm using tetraselmis phytoplankton (live) as feed.
Supposedly tig pods are the least productive of these three species, but my tig pod cultures are by far the most productive. I thought at first it was just because they are the largest and thus easiest to see. Tisbe clears the water really fast sometimes and seems to be doing ok but in the sieve it sure looks like there's a LOT more mass of tig pods than tisbe. I mean I get crazy tig pods. Apocyclops is barely maintaining and tisbe is just ok by comparison to tig.
Anyone done any testing on what's better feed for diff species of copepod cultures? I have some different phyto started now, but tetraselmis is my go to.
Supposedly tig pods are the least productive of these three species, but my tig pod cultures are by far the most productive. I thought at first it was just because they are the largest and thus easiest to see. Tisbe clears the water really fast sometimes and seems to be doing ok but in the sieve it sure looks like there's a LOT more mass of tig pods than tisbe. I mean I get crazy tig pods. Apocyclops is barely maintaining and tisbe is just ok by comparison to tig.
Anyone done any testing on what's better feed for diff species of copepod cultures? I have some different phyto started now, but tetraselmis is my go to.