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It's not that difficult to culture your own rotifers till they get quite dense. Most people who use frozen algae paste usually fail as they scale up their starter cultures too fast. For example if you have 300 ml of rotifer starter culture don't just dump them into 10 liters of water and feed microalgae paste. Rotifer growth is proportional to the algae density you maintain. Meaning if you feed the same density of microalgae paste to a larger volume of water chances are that most will be uneaten and will rot, affecting your water quality and your rotifers won't do well. So instead of seeing your rotifer population bloom you notice your rotifers not making much progress.

If you feed microalgae always make sure by the next day the water is still a little green, if your water becomes clear you should increase the dose as most probably your rotifers are eating more. Try to get new cultures going by the time your culture is about 9-10 days old as older cultures are more prone to crashes. This means getting a new container with new seawater to start over with, not simply just diluting the current culture as it might be contaminated with other organisms like ciliates, which might affect the health of your rotifer culture.

Oh ya for the clownfish larvae, best to use dark paper or cloth to shade the sides of the container. It helps the larvae to see the rotifers better due to better contrast. :peace:

Always something more important than fish.

http://reefbuilders.com/2012/03/08/sps-pico-reef/

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now e 1st batch of babies left one.. 12 days old with white stripe on head.. :P

e 2nd batch of babies still black.. 2days old 8/8 survivors...

mama nemo finding place to lay eggs again... tink i nid a rotifers factory.... :blink::blink::blink:

muz wait how many days then no nid eat on rotifers huh?

muz wait till how big then can 1 day feed one time like adult nemo?

:whistle:whistle:whistle

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nemo at day 12

got white stripe liaoz..'

but i think wait another 10days more for e other blackies got orange colour liaoz then feed them bigger mysis food bahz...

since another batch of new born babies cuming in soon b4 they turn orange damn stress... so much babies... :nc:

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Just came across this thread in RC. Might be helpful to you. ;)

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthre...threadid=817622

IA = Instant Algae (aka Microalgae paste) if I did'nt interpret it wrongly.

Always something more important than fish.

http://reefbuilders.com/2012/03/08/sps-pico-reef/

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People usually introduce newly hatched brine shrimp around day 10 or so. Best to feed the bbs as soon as they hatch as they lose their nutritional value very fast. Normally takes around 24 h for the brine shrimp eggs to hatch. If you want to enrich your brine shrimp either use Selco or microalgae paste. For me I use both. :D

Always something more important than fish.

http://reefbuilders.com/2012/03/08/sps-pico-reef/

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