Hi Everybody!
A couple weeks ago, I ordered some "benthics copepods of the order Cyclopoida and Harpacticoida", filled a bucket, added a bubbler and left it on the floor (it's actually in the way now, lol). I feed the bucket phyto daily.
I just randomly took a scoop out (about 250ml) to see what was floating around in the water column. There are various sizes of pods in there (moving), so I assume my culture is doing well. I'm culturing this for my own use as well as some cash on the side.
Is there any value in culturing other pods, like Amphipods. Or whatever else I can catch from my sump (I have oodles of mysid, perhaps I can culture them too?). I am going to split my copepod culture shortly, should I put them into the same culture containers or just fire up a few more buckets? Space might become an issue at some point...
Any thoughts out there? From experience or speculation welcome!
A couple weeks ago, I ordered some "benthics copepods of the order Cyclopoida and Harpacticoida", filled a bucket, added a bubbler and left it on the floor (it's actually in the way now, lol). I feed the bucket phyto daily.
I just randomly took a scoop out (about 250ml) to see what was floating around in the water column. There are various sizes of pods in there (moving), so I assume my culture is doing well. I'm culturing this for my own use as well as some cash on the side.
Is there any value in culturing other pods, like Amphipods. Or whatever else I can catch from my sump (I have oodles of mysid, perhaps I can culture them too?). I am going to split my copepod culture shortly, should I put them into the same culture containers or just fire up a few more buckets? Space might become an issue at some point...
Any thoughts out there? From experience or speculation welcome!