Too warm of culture water won’t grow large pods....
What’s your temp and also describe your process with pics f you can
What’s your temp and also describe your process with pics f you can
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Too warm of culture water won’t grow large pods....
What’s your temp and also describe your process with pics f you can
Do we have anyone who cultures Tisbe Pods? I've been trying for just over a month. The adult size ones I started with seem to be way larger than I'm able to raise. Mine are tiny. So tiny they seem to still make it through a 20 micron filter/sieve. So makes it almost impossible to harvest them and do a water change. One day it seems like I have a ton of them. The next day it's like nothing is in the vessel. Any good tips?
My 1st thought is you know what your room temp is, but what is the culture water temp running at ?
Looks like you have a lot of leds on there and that will prob push the culture temp way above what you should be at.
LOL... That's not the Pod culture. That's my phyto culture. The pod culture next to it and is at 74 degrees though. Usually a few degrees warmer.
If they are passing through a 20 micron sieve, they are likely ciliates and not copepods.
Not an expert by any means, but sometimes I leave the light cultures in the bottle and it restarts by itself after it has crashed, giving me a new dark green one. Has worked I would say 4/5 times I have done it.Some nice set ups. I am trying to grow some phyto but i think i failed . I got a 16oz bottle of phyto, split it in half between two bottles, doubled the volume of each bottle with NSW at recommended specific gravity, added F2, set up lights and bubbler (see first pic below). A couple days later one bottle went light yellow green and had dark green clumps settling on bottom and sides of bottle. The second one started to get clumps as well but only lightened up a bit (see second pic below). I left them for 8 days. I went to half the bottle that was the darkest green to start over again and noticed mold was on the cork that I was using in the top of the bottles ;Facepalm. Note - do not use cork as bottle stoppers in phyto culture. I went ahead and cleaned everything and started over using the contents of the darker green bottle. I pored out the light green water from the first bottle and saved the clumps (which quickly dispersed) in the bottom.
Questions:-
1. Do you think my culture is still viable?
2. Dose the dark green clumpy stuff at the bottom have any nutritional value, can I pour it in my tank for any benefit?
3. I am going to run lights 24/7 to help with temp swings. Is that recommended? and any other advice you can think give me?
Thanks for the advice, and reassurance. I am hoping mine will bounce back.Not an expert by any means, but sometimes I leave the light cultures in the bottle and it restarts by itself after it has crashed, giving me a new dark green one. Has worked I would say 4/5 times I have done it.
I also shake the bag so the clumpy stuff gets diluted into mix then throw away the rest.
I have my lights 24/7.
I have been using the Poseidon system settings and followed their instructions and advice. I have more phyto and copepods that I know what to do with now.
I use the Poseidon systems and I find them to be a very convenient size. I do end up having more phyto that I can use on my 75, so I make a culture every other weekCan anyone recommend what style and size container works best? I’m tentatively thinking 1 gallon size plastic cylinders for both phyto and Tisbe pods, but am open to other ideas. Also, how helpful or not is having a drain spigot on the container?