Culturing live plankton & zooplankton

[Achilles Tang]

Hi SRC members,

With the keen interest in culturing plankton and zooplankton to feed our corals and invertebrates, I will launching a 'How-To' series.

Although there are excellent sites out there already with good explanations, I will compile concise points and my own personal experiences and tips in our local context.

Be patient as I will be taking some time to compile photos and procedures.

Bawater and Chanbi has recently gotten their own culture kits and will undoubtedly set the trend going with PacificBetta's rotifer culturing and my phytoplankton and rotifer culturing.

I will also go over the artemia culturing procedure too.

AT

[alvy]

Great!!!Am thinking about it but dunno where to start...will be waiting patiently!

[Sinn]

shd pin it up AT

[dodo]

Cheers....folks

[chanbi]

Cheers! Glad to know that AT is coming up with the "how to".. Me and bawater has started about a week and we should be able to get our first batch to mature by Christmas time (hopefully if everything work out fine). This is my first time in culturing and i am learning quite a bit from AT and bawater.. but it is kind of fun and not as time consuming if u plan out well. But one thing for sure, your sugar level will go up! why? cos' u have to drink a lot of soft drink to get the 1.5l or 2l bottles.. <_< Below is a link given to me by bawater and i think this diy culture station is useful esp. for those who have space constraint (i am using it now)..

DIY culture station

[Chris]

Thanks AT,

This is just what we reefers need. Then, we can stop paying big money for low quality synthetic coral food.

[coelacanth]

Cheers! Glad to know that AT is coming up with the "how to".. Me and bawater has started about a week and we should be able to get our first batch to mature by Christmas time (hopefully if everything work out fine). This is my first time in culturing and i am learning quite a bit from AT and bawater.. but it is kind of fun and not as time consuming if u plan out well. But one thing for sure, your sugar level will go up! why? cos' u have to drink a lot of soft drink to get the 1.5l or 2l bottles.. Below is a link given to me by bawater and i think this diy culture station is useful esp. for those who have space constraint (i am using it now)..

DIY culture station

hey, that looks like some mad scientist experiement!

cool, looks easy and thank for the tips.

[bawater]

it was easy to assemble, & with a PVC cutter($13)- even faster. My cost for the PVC was $8,2x 20watt shop lights $20+ 2x 5 outlet air valve $4 each & it took 15mins to put it together. No pics yet, i'm Still busy splitting cultures.

[alexlean]

Hi AT

I am a new member and your culture of plankton is very interesting. Putting up the things is easy . .but where do i get the innitial life plankton to start with and can i use syntatic salt water to do the culture ?

Thanks for this interesting topic

[onghm]

it was easy to assemble, & with a PVC cutter($13)- even faster. My cost for the PVC was $8,2x 20watt shop lights $20+ 2x 5 outlet air valve $4 each & it took 15mins to put it together. No pics yet, i'm Still busy splitting cultures.

Hi Bawater,

Still waiting for your pics leh

[anakjoh]

I'm in 2 - anyone living in KL wanna share this project - please PM me.

[Beagle]

FINALLY

I can finally get to cultivate my own culture Zzz