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@Reef Nutrition I notice that many of the phyto has settled in bottom in my apex pod culture. I do have air bubbles going on. Is it important to stir it once in a while?
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There has been quite a bit of research done on Tigriopus californicus and one of the findings was that they generally do better in at elevated salinities and actually need the salinity to be higher to be able to handle higher temperatures (counter-intuitive but makes sense if you consider the California weather cycle). I haven't read all of the papers yet but it also seems that they need a generation or two to switch from summer temperatures to winter temperatures. During that transition, especially if temperatures change quickly, you may experience something looking like a crash but in most cases, they recover.my tigger culture is crashing, I think due to some large temp swings with the erratic spring temps. i have my nanno phyto and my tigger culture near a window. Sunlight and the cheap heater i added when temps were dropping down the low 60s at night sent the culture to 85°.
it could also be other missteps, but I plan on switching to arcti pods in a week or two as I understand these are easier to culture and my sumps have exploded with the tiggers. My primary purpose is to keep my mandarin in my 29 gal happy, so now I'll be dosing the harvested arcti pods directly to the DT while the sumps send a steady flow of tiggers in.
My mistake- I was thinking of Arcti-pods given they are up to 3mmOf all those pods Tisbe is the smallest and Tigriopus the largest. Apocyclops is on the smaller side. Tisbe and Apocyclops are for me primarily larvae feeds due to them needing a decent amount of TLC to stay productive and alive.
Tigriopus is the one most suitable as a mass grow-out food as it gets pretty large and can be cultured out in the backyard (at least here in CA) and fed cheaply - no need for expensive feeds.
I still need to figure out how to maximize the yield and how to achieve better supply stability so that I will always have enough of it at all times.
Maybe not, but it’s the only thing I’ve put with mine and they are still alive.you don’t think nanno is a particularly useful food source for Tigs?
I’ve been doing tigs for 8 months and nanno has been doing fine. It also clears up 3 times a week and needs replenishing, but I don’t have any direct light on it since it’s in my basement Fishroom. So the nanno doesn’t grow in my tig culture. From an RN bottle of tigs, I was at one point able to harvest 20-25000 a week for about a 6 week period before I dialed it back.Thought I read from reef nutrition that Artic pods were not alive.
Apex pods are the ones I’d like to try next.
Maybe not, but it’s the only thing I’ve put with mine and they are still alive.
What I took as sludge was actually napulii !! I just used a brine shrimp net to catch the adults.Anyone have thoughts on the bottom sludge and separating pods from it?
@Reef Nutrition I notice that many of the phyto has settled in bottom in my apex pod culture. I do have air bubbles going on. Is it important to stir it once in a while?
The Tigger pods from Reef Nutrition I bought at a local shop came out of the fridge! I was kinda surprised. Looked in the bottle and saw them swimming around!
On the bottle it says 35ppt salinity, so that’s what I went with.
Thought mine was crashing too. Started to separate out the adults from what I thought was detritus on the bottom. Luckily I was using a glass pitcher to help in the separation because I noticed that the detritus was swimming! Lol
@Reef Nutrition will UV sterilizer kill Apex pods or other pods?
@Reef Nutrition : i found some earlier online forums detailing culturing on the Marine Breeding Initiative, that’s states Reed mariculture found that Tigriopus don’t do well cultured in clear containers. What’s the info on this? I’ve been using clear sterilize containers and been getting great yields (10-15000 adults/ week) but if I can optimize those numbers that’s worth looking into
thanks!
Does anyone know of any copepod that I could raise outside in miami? Something that will survive the higher temps in the 90's. I would have them in the shade so the water should not get higher than the air temp.
Thank you so much, this is perfect! I’m going to order some.Our Apex-Pods (Apocyclops panamensis) would do just fine in that environment.