Pods and Brine

[ReefCheif]

Anyone have any experience with live brine cultures? How about propogating your own copepods?

Since the kiddo is intent on having a seahorse Im going to need to set up a live brine culture. I have no idea how ot go about this and am wondering if anyone here has any experience or knows of any good reading material.

Im also looking for the same information on copepods. Figure if Im setting up a culture for the kiddos tank, I may as well grow pods too, to keep the draginettes happy.

Space is limited so this needs to be small scale.

Any advice, tips or information would be much appreciated.

 

[scotty b]

I hatch and grow brine shrimp in a row of 2 ltr bottles, I feed the brine shrimp live plankton ,
do your self a favor , order in some HATCHING decapped brine shrimp eggs , they save so very much hassle

 

[zombie]

Pods are super easy. Get some plastic cake pans, fill them up with saltwater halfway and enough live phyto to keep the water light green. Then just top off with rodi and add phyto as necessary. They double population every two weeks, so you could get about 1000 a week per cake pan.

 

[scotty b]

what type/sp. of sea horse are you thinking of getting?

 

[ReefCheif]

what type/sp. of sea horse are you thinking of getting?

Havnt decided that yet. Going to stay away from anything of the dwarf verity for sure though

 

[ReefCheif]

Pods are super easy. Get some plastic cake pans, fill them up with saltwater halfway and enough live phyto to keep the water light green. Then just top off with rodi and add phyto as necessary. They double population every two weeks, so you could get about 1000 a week per cake pan.

No airstone or anything? Shouldn't there be agitation to the water to keep it from going stale?

 

[ReefCheif]

I hatch and grow brine shrimp in a row of 2 ltr bottles, I feed the brine shrimp live plankton ,
do your self a favor , order in some HATCHING decapped brine shrimp eggs , they save so very much hassle

you got any pictures or reading material or anything I can check out?

 

[zombie]

No airstone or anything? Shouldn't there be agitation to the water to keep it from going stale?

No agitation needed if the water depth is 1" or less.

 

[scotty b]

you got any pictures or reading material or anything I can check out?

ill try and snap a pic or two in a bit

 

[amphispur]

The MBI has TONS of culture threads (www.mbisite.org), but basically how I do mine is I take a container (usually a 5g bucket) fill it with my saltwater, and I feed RGComplete. A few drops a day and pods will grow like wild. Easiest species would be the tiggerpods and the tisbe pods, they require 0 maintenance whatsoever. Only way how I know this? I don't do any waterchanges and they bloom like crazy.

Here's links to my journal, if you wanna look up more just go to "Search Species Data" and copy the scientific name that is in bold after "Culture Journal, Species:"
http://www.mbisite.org/Forums/tm.aspx?m=80015
http://www.mbisite.org/Forums/tm.aspx?m=85182

Hope this helps!

 

[ReefCheif]

Good stuff, thanks guys