So, you wanna grow rotifers?
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Topic: So, you wanna grow rotifers?
Posted By: Suzy
Subject: So, you wanna grow rotifers?
Date Posted: February 03 2004 at 2:56pm
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Rotifers are so easy to grow, but I'm not sure if you would want to. I was told by a previous president that rotifers are "like a sack" for carrying the green. So, if you add green, do you need rotifers? I do, just because I think of them like the protein part of my tanks dinner. Corals cannot live on green alone....Just a guess on my part, but I think our corals need different foods and different sizes of foods, so these are different! If you've previously read the phytoplanton thread, you've seen the link to a rotifer growing set-up. I have nothing to add to his ideas, except: Mess with the green first. Somehow, rotifers can splash/hop/jump? into your green and eat it all! It's usually OK, just another bottle to add to the reef! If you decide to grow rotifers, you need a 53 micron filter to strain them. I also strain them into a algae sponge scrubber thing from the LFS to get out the rotifer poop! I learned that from Cindy Jones. Thanks, Cindy! You can get fertilizer, the filter from Florida Aqua Farms. And , I can start your culture! |
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Posted By: Suzy
Date Posted: February 03 2004 at 3:13pm
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And, lets talk baby brine shrimp while we're on the protein subject!
These guys are so easy to hatch! They are a different size, different protein source and very nutritious, so I've read. But, they are only nutritious for a short time, Just a few hours after they hatch, they are basically worthless! So, you gotta feed 'em! And, you've already got the green! BBS eat one celled algae like crazy! And, that makes 'em way nutritious! I hatch our BBS in green, 'cause I figure they all hatch at different times and sometimes I forget about them for days...There is also a fatty-acid (that's the stuff cell membrane are made of, in mammals anyway) product, called Zoecon (Kent) or Selcon (by somebody else). I stick a drop of Zoecon in the BBS, 'cause they eat it, too! You can also grow the BBS to adult in about 12 days! Live food for a picky eater OR sea-monkeys! So, it turns out that the hatched egg shells float to the top, and the unhatched eggs sink to the bottom. It's easy to stick a rigid plastic tube to middle and suck 'em out and then it's loaded to target feed your reef. Jake told me that unhatched eggs can cause intestinal troubles in our fish. There is a way to de-capsulate them. It's in put book "Clownfishes" by Joyce Wilkerson. Anybody have that book checked out? I think it would be easy to make a hatcher out of an upside down Pepsi bottle. I bought ours from FAFUSA, but I never use spout at the bottom.... Any ideas I forgot? Am I sorta on track? |
Posted By: ssilcox
Date Posted: February 06 2004 at 12:52pm
| Hey Suzy - where do you get the BBS eggs? |
Posted By: DutchDude
Date Posted: February 06 2004 at 1:19pm
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Hey Shane - the absolute best place - in my opinion - is BrineShrimpDirect http://www.brineshrimpdirect.com/brine-shrimp-direct-hatching-brineshrimp.html - http://www.brineshrimpdirect.com/brine-shrimp-direct-hatchin g-brineshrimp.html Hopefully we can get them to come to our next meeting. |
Posted By: Suzy
Date Posted: February 06 2004 at 4:08pm
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That's where I got ours from! You get like a lifetime supply, for like
$10! |
Posted By: ssilcox
Date Posted: February 06 2004 at 4:13pm
Sweet - thanks! I think I am going to try this live food thing... 
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Posted By: Mark Peterson
Date Posted: February 08 2004 at 10:27pm
Though I'm a previous president, I assume that it was Tim Weidauer and/or Joe Jones that explained this to Suzy, since, besides being previous presidents, they were also the previous owners of Mountain Corals/Velvet Green Phytoplankton and Rotifers. My understanding of the reasoning behind their explanation is that the many organisms that don't capture and eat the single-cell algae directly, do eat the rotifer that hopefully has a gut full of algae. As Suzy suggested, in this way the meat eating coral consumes and digests the salad that came wrapped in meat. 
IMO, it's very important for us to learn what each coral, invert and fish eats before we acquire it!  Anyone have a good recipe for veggies wrapped with meat?------------- Reefkeeping Tips, & quick, easy setup tricks: www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9244 Pay it forward - become a paid WMAS member 
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Suzy wrote:Posted By: jfinch
Date Posted: February 08 2004 at 10:42pm
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Anyone have a good recipe for veggies wrapped with meat? Lettice wraps at P.F. Changs??? ------------- Jon https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6y_EzjI_ljbIwf2n5uNzTw" rel="nofollow - What I've been doing... |
Posted By: Mark Peterson
Date Posted: February 08 2004 at 11:27pm
I knew Jon couldn't pass on that enticement! Actually what I was looking for is the opposite, bologna wrapped around lettuce!?!  Somehow that doesn't sound very good.  ------------- Reefkeeping Tips, & quick, easy setup tricks: www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9244 Pay it forward - become a paid WMAS member
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Posted By: Suzy
Date Posted: February 09 2004 at 6:28am
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Carls Jr has a new low-carb burger. It's a hamburger patty wrapped
in lettuce! It was Tim that told me that. Where is he? I think the rotifers add a touch of omega 3 fatty acids...What cells use for their membrane, right? |
Posted By: jfinch
Date Posted: February 09 2004 at 6:52am
 I'm always hungry. ------------- Jon https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6y_EzjI_ljbIwf2n5uNzTw" rel="nofollow - What I've been doing... |
Posted By: Mark Peterson
Date Posted: February 09 2004 at 8:03am
That's making me hungry too. 
Last year, Tim and Tina were transferred to Portland by their employer, Johnson Controls. Here are some pics of their new home. 
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Posted By: Suzy
Date Posted: February 09 2004 at 9:25am
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What a gorgeous place to live! I am jealous! I'm going out to shovel
the *@#@* driveway again! |
Posted By: quixmartin
Date Posted: February 09 2004 at 2:18pm
| I used to live in Portland, and you're right, it's a georgeous place to live. The only problem that I had with that area is just what you see in the pictures, It's always overcast in the winter! I had to wait months just to see the sun! |
Posted By: Chem Guy
Date Posted: February 10 2004 at 2:52pm
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As a former resident of Oregon, I miss the spring for the explosion of color. I also miss the long growing season for my garden. Remember, it only rains once a year in Western Oregon-September through April!
As a SCUBA diver, I also miss my BIG aquarium called the Oregon Coast. Oh, well...... ------------- Jim LaMunyon Richmond, Utah |
Posted By: Suzy
Date Posted: October 02 2004 at 9:46am
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BUMP! I've got starts of rots if anybody needs 'em!!
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Posted By: lex0219
Date Posted: November 01 2004 at 5:36pm
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i do!!! ------------- "I will search until i find my happily ever after"-renee tanks 10 gal dwarf 30 gal fw 10 gal nano reef 12 gal nano cub The Air Force is where it is! |
Posted By: Weimers
Date Posted: November 01 2004 at 6:01pm
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Are rots the reason you're looking for a tank for a while? Or are you raising little 'uns?
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Posted By: Suzy
Date Posted: November 30 2004 at 8:18pm
| This thread needs a bump, too! |