it's CHADDDDD,
You are the greatest. Thank you. I am set up in your system as a breeder. I've been doing this too long. I did things for a while on my own. Then I stepped it up with the seahorses and got setup as a teacher cause my class was doing seahorses then moved to breeder.
You guys are where I get all my parvo's from. I love the RG complete especially for intense rotifer culture. I just refreshed it when I ordered the parvo's. I am planning on using it with the angel larva/rotifer experiment.
Hey, I didn't seem to get any Colurella adriatica you warned me about (that I really wanted). I used a 25 micron strainer. Are they smaller than that?
Also my Apocyclops seems to be diminishing. Do you think I need a heater. I just culture about 73 degrees. I know not optimal but room temp. I'm using live phyto and an airline. I was going to try to set up your 60 L set up but in a 5 gallon. I've strained out some nauplli to start maturation but didn't get near as many as I thought.
inlet 90 micron outlet 25 micron. only 4400 but more concerning I decided to strain the whole container to check things and not many adults or greater than 90. I put 100,00 nauplli in the bucket. which is about 5 per ml.
DOH!!! I didn't realize who this was. LOL Thanks for filling me in.
I'm pretty sure the Colurella are in there. You may not see them because they are at such a low density. They will not go through a 25 micron screen.
It's likely that the Apocyclops culture is diminishing due to the live algae. If the algae isn't very dense and you don't add it throughout the day, the nauplii will starve. What kind of live algae are you using? I recommend using some of the RGcomplete to get them some more food. They don't care if the algae is alive or not, which is why I really like them! You can add a few mls of it to your 5 gallon bucket.
Hope this helps!