Copepod cultures?

heavybreakfast · Jul 4, 2017

Hey everyone--I'm planning to start a copepod culture separate from the main take in order to maintain a food source for a dragonet.
I know you can find them reasonably online but I thought I'd check here to see if anyone has a culture going in the area. If so I'd be super interested in buying some copepods/phytoplankton.

thanks!

joe berkman · Jul 4, 2017

i started one based on u tube vids and it stank like sour milk so i chucked it. a coupple monthes latter after curing some dry rock i pulled a seed rock out of my fuge, placed it and some carbon in with my cycled rock and dosed with zoo plankton, aqua forest bio s and np pro worked great my red manderins now fat and zerro maintenance

A+Aquatics · Jul 5, 2017

@heavybreakfast
Wouldn't it be easier to grab a few hundred from your system and start a culture from that?

heavybreakfast · Jul 5, 2017

A+Aquatics said:
@heavybreakfast
Wouldn't it be easier to grab a few hundred from your system and start a culture from that?

Probably would work, I didn't think about that

A+Aquatics · Jul 6, 2017

heavybreakfast said:
Probably would work, I didn't think about that

GL

Richard Huse · Oct 25, 2017

If you are keeping dragonettes, separate copepod cultures are a really good idea to keep them happy. You should be looking for Tisbe copepods since they are small enough for the dragonette's gape and they reproduce rapidly.

A+Aquatics · Oct 28, 2017

@heavybreakfast already knows that - he's good like that

A+Aquatics · Feb 16, 2018

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@heavybreakfast -

A+Aquatics · Nov 12, 2020

It's a fabulous year for stretching into new territory and providing livestock with the best of the best!
Who's made some progress in their culture expansion and grow-outs?
There has been plenty of time for those projects on the to-do-list to be accomplished this year.