Culturing Rotifers: How to
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- Опубліковано 8 жов 2024
- Today I will show you how to culture rotifers. Rotifers are one the main first foods for clownfish and breeding other marine aquarium fish. Culturing rotifers is key to your success in breeding clownfish.
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Great video! I just started culturing live food for my saltwater tank. I started with copepods but can't seem to get those to take off so now I'm thinking of trying rotifers which brought me here. Thank you for taking the time to make this video! Rotifers look easier.. hopefully. 😁 You can never have enough buckets in this hobby! LOL
Your welcome Karen Norton. Rotifers are easier for sure. I have never done Copepods but you need to have a culture of T-Iso algae going as well to feed the copepods.
Thank so much I watched 10 videos before this but you made the most sense thanks
Thanks Aquaballs.... I am glad I was able to help
Good info. Just subscribed because of your swordtail videos. Might comein handy if I ever get it together to get more Congo spotted puffers.
Thanks Alex. Could luck with the Congo spotted puffers. Let me know if you have any questions.
Good afternoon, my good friend, I'm from Armenia.There is no living culture of rotifers in our country.Can you please tell me if it is possible to buy rotifer eggs and get live culture of rotifers from them for feeding clown fish fry?I will be very grateful if you answer me
I don’t know if they ship to Armenia but you check with Reed Mariculture. Also you could check with food fish farms in your area and see if they have a more local supplier as well
Try a university biology lab
I'm a bit confused. Isn't a strainer that fine used to capture the rotifers? When you feed the rotifers to the baby clownfish do you just take the rotifers directly out of the bucket? You don't strain then out?
The strainer is to remove large particulates. The rotifers go through the strainer while the crud is left behind.
How would you catch the rotifers if you want to ?
Ivan Nunez you would just take a cup of it out of the bucket I think
@FishTankBarn once you filter out the algae with your 53 micron sieve, and now all the rotifers are in the clean bucket, do you just scoop a cup from the clean bucket to feed to your clowns or do you have to use another sieve to strain out your rotifers and then feed them to the clowns? Also.. once you take out half of your culture and start a new bucket, what do you do with the first bucket? How do you clean it if the rotifers are still in there?
Where did you get that strainer? You're saying you have to strain out everything into new bucket, retain some fluids from old into new? For top off, what do you add? Tap water, distilled, or ro/di?
I bought a rotifer strainer on Amazon. It was a 53 micron strainer. To make a second bucket you would split in half and add new saltwater. Top off I would add RODI but you should be changing the culture enough that top off wouldn’t be an issue.
@@FishTankBarn so u basially need to.always change the wayer, or what indicators do u use to prompt that change to a new bucket process. nice vid
Yes will need to change and harvest frequently or your culture will die out.
@@FishTankBarn ok.
@@FishTankBarn ill rewatch the vid. it seems simple, but actually a lot of intricate details as its kinda delicate as well. lol thnx
Im just curious the green water will crash if it will have rotifer?
Yes you will need to keep adding algae in order to keep the rotifers feed.
What size micron mesh should I use to filter the algae out but let’s rotifers through? I have the same 53 you used. I’d like to filter algae out and then collect rotifers. Reef nutrition sells a 41micron to collect. I know it’s a numb question but isn’t 41 larger than 53? I’m worried I filtered all my rotifers with algae using 53 micron sieve. Thanks!!!
41 micron would capture smaller items. Another way of putting it is a 41 micron organism is smaller than a 53 micron organism
Algae as in phytoplankton?
yes as in phytoplankton
where did you get the 52 micron strainer from ?
Randi I was actually able to find it on amazon ... no telling if it is still there
Great info thanks for sharing bro 💪🏾👍🏾
Thanks Cichlid OG!
Where can i find Rotifers in nature. Or naturally..
P.S. they do occur naturally but it would be very inefficient to search through nature with a microscope to find them.
Nice how to mike 😁👍🏼
Thanks Angelo!
Awesome video Thanks for sharing FishFam NJAE19
Thanks VStag!
Good info man and video!
Thanks JC Aquatics!
Where from you buy this culture.
I am from India. Can you send me the link where from you bye.. hope you give me reply
Thanks bhavesh! I buy my cultures from Reed Marculture. Not sure if they ship to India. Here is the link. reefnutrition.com/product_rotifer_starter_kit.php. If you can’t get it from there I would check with you LFS or maybe a food fish aquaculture facility.
Like 172 kultur rotifera
Thanks ccaahh!
You using spirilina
No using algae paste from Reed Mariculture
Right I breed copepods and brine artemia I use food grade pure spirilina
show us what does your breeding rotifer look like get a microscope to show us. use a microscope to show the rotifer on the computer
hi bro
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