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    Help with baby fish please

    Whatever I'm using for fry food at the time, rotifers to begin with and later bbs. I do it to lessen the chance of introducing bacteria to the nursery containers from the rearing containers of rotifers or brine shrimp. Rearing and hatching containers of live foods are excellent breeding grounds...
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    Help with baby fish please

    Well, for rotifer culture I think most people use live nanno to feed them with, and some use cryopaste. I have used both, but now, I just use the spirulina powder. I have three 5g water bottles (old ones without handles) and fiberglassed the necks to hold water and cut the bottoms of the bottles...
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    Help with baby fish please

    No, I grow the rotifers on spirulina, and then take out what I need and gut load them in a separate container with in my case either Algamac 3050 (powdered equivalent of selco) or Algamac Protein Plus, or Dan Underwoods blended mix, depending on how old the fry are. After placing the gut loaded...
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    Help with baby fish please

    bbs is baby brine shrimp, usually fed to the fish within hours of being hatched to take advantage of the egg sack nutrition. However, one can grow them out for about a day and then gut load them with various products to give different nutrient profiles depending on what is needed. After that day...
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    Help with baby fish please

    A separate fry nursery is recommended using gut loaded rotifers and bbs to start and using gut loaded bbs after a week. It helps to keep live phyto in the water and keep lighting on 24/7. This allows any uneaten live food to still be feeding on something, and, it allows for consumption of some...
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    Iodide-Iodine???

    Here is Randy's take on dosing Iodine. Iodine in Marine Aquaria: Part I Iodine in Reef Tanks 2
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    Refractometer

    Randy Holmes-Farley on refractometer calibration in Reefkeeping Online Homemade Calibration Standards stated: "It is widely believed that only pure water is required to calibrate refractometers. That fact is true of many refractometers, and is certainly appropriate for routine calibration, but...
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    Looking to purchase refractometer

    Well if I pass on tonight, it'll take you another 6 years to catch up!:eek: Another 17 years and I'll be an old man.
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    Looking to purchase refractometer

    Geez Boomer, you sound like you're as old as I am!:lol:
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    Looking to purchase refractometer

    First of all, I suspect you've never had a CERTIFIED hydrometer. A certified hydrometer only needs to be kept properly cleaning to be capable of producing a true reading. How would one know if a hydrometer is reading correct? If you use a certified hydrometer CORRECTLY and get a different...
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    Looking to purchase refractometer

    A certified calibrated hydrometer will not be inaccurate. Any inaccuracy would only be because of someone using it that doesn't understand how. I would bet on my hydrometer over your refractometer. It doesn't depend on needing calibrated after the initial factory calibration and home calibration...
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    Looking to purchase refractometer

    I much prefer to use my box swing arm hydrometers that I keep clean with white vinegar and rinse after every use. I calibrated them against my certified calibrated Fisher Scientific hydrometer and cut material off the swing arm to lower the reading for one, and cut material off the weight...
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    Killing unwanted pests (mojitos, Antapseseseses)

    I kept zapping mine, 5 or ten at time, with hydrochloric acid using a syringe and needle. Eventually it got to the point I couldn't find more to zap, and now, many years later, I still have none in any of my tanks.
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    In the hobby too long

    Well my wife won't allow anything to do with tanks in our living areas. Might get something wet. Guess that's a good reason for her to have to share the laundry room.
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    In the hobby too long

    Well, after looking at the neat pictures YOU posted, I certainly am not going to do so with the messes I've created and I've only been in the hobby for 17 yrs. I have a bad habit of leaving where I finish using, and stacking on top of other things if I don't need it for a while (or for years, or...
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    Need Live Brine ASAP!-Finicky Fish!!!!

    http://www.livebrineshrimp.com
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    Live Brine Shrimp

    It wasn't stated, but I felt it was implied that the poster was looking for adult, or at least juvenile live brine which are definitely more work than just hatching out and feeding within a short period of time. As far as nutrition of brine shrimp goes, their lack of nutrient has been falsely...
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    Live Brine Shrimp

    Growing your own is fine if you don't need much, especially if it's only for pleasure to watch your fish eat live once in a while. However, for any meaning full density of brine culture, it can be work. The more dense the culture, the more work in cleaning and water changes. If I lived in the US...
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    Live Brine Shrimp

    LIVE BRINE SHRIMP DOT COM
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    salt/water mix salinty?

    There will be no set measurement because the various salts vary in composition, and will have varying degrees of water content, depending on the atmosphere exposed to.
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