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  1. Brachionus Rotifer

    Brachionus Rotifer

    150 microns by 250 microns I use a 53 micron collector;feed is Nannochloropsis.
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    jasenka`s little reef

    Beautiful Reef aquarium Jasenka! Your skill is exceedingly praiseworthy.
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    two mandarins

    Dear Gobie I am so very sorry that happened. If you are ever at a place that sells ceramic floor tile get a blue scrubber or blue scrub pad. The kind that tile setters use to clean grout joints on a new tile floor. Not a sponge but a scrubber. It looks like an aquarium scrubber only much...
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    two mandarins

    Copepods ten Bucks a quart. Hi how are your Mandarin? Just thought you might like to know where you can get some copepods: Autumn Hoff [email protected] Phone# 352-567-0226
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    Detritus Food Web

    Every so often I feed my aquariums till I get an ammonium spike. Right at or just after the 420 and 460 nm lamps are turned off by the timer. Not all at once but over a weekend till I get an alge bloom. Each night I feed just enough to get the amphipods to increase their population. I started...
  6. Hatching Jar

    Hatching Jar

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  7. Mandarin Pair

    Mandarin Pair

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    Mandarin larvae

    Pod Piles Just some thoughts on what people are calling "Pod Piles". Be careful what size rocks you use in this little pile that formes a refuge for Amphipods. If shrimp cannot clear this pile of Aiptasia anemone then you will. I think it best to get a bag of Sea Floor and go through it picking...
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    phytoplankton, brine shrimp, & rotifers

    What kind/how many crabs and snails do you have? Do you have a Refugium? Do you have Copepods? Jeff
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    phytoplankton, brine shrimp, & rotifers

    Hi Gobie Yes to the first five questions. You don't need to worry about having too many rotifers or brine shrimp. Just feed them to the fish or grow them out. You really need to keep-up with the Green water or you will not have enough. My cultures can go through two liters a day, each...
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    Mandarin larvae

    The Mandarin's Dance Nikki If a Mandarin pair are at ease in their biotope the female will become ripe. The male will begin the courtship dance by hopping near the female and displaying the spike of his front dorsal fin to her. They swim upward the male following the female, all the rest of the...
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    Mandarin larvae

    Hi Elmo They're a little smaller, but that's not the problem. It's the size of the Mandarin larva's mouth. It is a lot smaller. Giving Mandarin larvae rotifers is like giving artemia to Clownfish larvae before they are five days old. They are too large for the larva to swallow and it will die...
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    Mandarin larvae

    Hi Nikki The Hyper-link you gave me the other day about culturing copepods gave me some thoughts about culturing amphipods too. Already had a tank so I drew down some water from tank 2 and 3 put in blue mat, carbon, bio-wheel, a protean skimmer, food and some caulerpa. Thought about the...
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    Mandarin larvae

    Just now I was looking at copepod tank I put together the other day and there are some juvenile copepods on the front side.
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    Mandarin larvae

    Elmo Like the man said "It aint gadda be per-dee it just gotta work". Jeff
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    Mandarin larvae

    Hi Everyone "First set back", Dr's. Foster & Smith's Live Aquarea.com say they can't discern the sex of their young Mandarins. They recommend buying four or more. That's true, the odds are one chance in nineteen you would get all one sex if you buy five. But, I am not sure if I could sustain...
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    Mandarin larvae

    Greenwater Hi Everyone; Thank you Elmo; Sorry about your Mandarinfish Don, hang-in-there. Just so how I am doing this is common knowledge: I grow Nannochloropsis alga in raw, city tap-water, no CO2, and no biofilter; starting with 7 clean 2 litre flask (clear/clean pop bottles work just as...
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    Mandarin larvae

    Hi Everyone I built the tank and put Green water in it. Picked out some copepods and put them in too. Nannochloropsis is the only alga I grow, however. I will get to work on obtaining Tetraselmis and Isochrysis alge.
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    Mandarin larvae

    Thanks Don I found it.
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    Mandarin larvae

    Hi Adelaide I thought that would be the case with different alga and my mesh only go down to 58 microns. What about what Don is saying? That some of the new rotifers are smaller. Is anyone using copepod nauplii for any fish larvae other than Dragonets? What do you think copepod larvae as a...
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