Live Food Discussion Thread
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Gogol_frag
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Brilliant! Rock on Lukeluke.That be fair, stole it from Paul B.
Austin area.
I have set things in motion to start my white-worm culture, and my starter-culture arrives next week. My current "design" for the white-worm-factory is to use a combination of Coco-fiber and Organic potting mix as substrate, within Rubber Maid see-through food containers, that'll be kept cold with ice-packs inside a Cooler Bag (like a fabric-ed Cooler with straps). Outside of the above, I am thinking of following the guidance from this video Link.
Let me know of y'all's opinions.
Gogol_frag
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"Hello World" ... say my white worms. I started with less than ten worms, 5 days ago.
ReeferSamster
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I feed live blackworms Everyone likes it including some corals like scolies.
Blackworms are key to their success when first getting them to eat. blackworms also live for months in the refrigerator. Just rinse them in COLD water and dump the water. DO that once per day and keep the water level as low as you can, about an inch so they can breathe. Frozen bloodworms are accepted by first brought Copperband butterflies. But they get addicted to them fast. I rotate food around every day.
I do rods food mainly to open up feeding mode in scolys and brains.
The rest of the tank get frozen mysis and live brine shrimp because my fish crew like chasing them around.
Blackworms are key to their success when first getting them to eat. blackworms also live for months in the refrigerator. Just rinse them in COLD water and dump the water. DO that once per day and keep the water level as low as you can, about an inch so they can breathe. Frozen bloodworms are accepted by first brought Copperband butterflies. But they get addicted to them fast. I rotate food around every day.
I do rods food mainly to open up feeding mode in scolys and brains.
The rest of the tank get frozen mysis and live brine shrimp because my fish crew like chasing them around.
Paul B
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I am still married for I think about 48 years. No divorce yet. I just hope my wife doesn't find out I store the worms in the back of her underwear drawer.
I was looking for that.That be fair, stole it from Paul B.
Koh23
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Apologies is its already answered.....
I got baby mandarin, not sure if its tank breed or wild... Tank is 1 year old, lots of rock, refugium glass is filled with pods. But, kinda scared, i see him that he picks and nibble ocasionaly, so i guess there is some food for him.
Question is, years back i cultured phyto, i got soms from friend in bottle, added some plant fertilizer, air pump and light, and everything was great.
Nowdays, i only can get bottled phyto, like seachem or aquaforrest. Can it be used to culture my own phyto?
What else can be cultured at home to serve as mandarin food?
Thanx!
I got baby mandarin, not sure if its tank breed or wild... Tank is 1 year old, lots of rock, refugium glass is filled with pods. But, kinda scared, i see him that he picks and nibble ocasionaly, so i guess there is some food for him.
Question is, years back i cultured phyto, i got soms from friend in bottle, added some plant fertilizer, air pump and light, and everything was great.
Nowdays, i only can get bottled phyto, like seachem or aquaforrest. Can it be used to culture my own phyto?
What else can be cultured at home to serve as mandarin food?
Thanx!
lestat45559
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Thanks Paul for all the great idea. After many revisions, here is the most current version:
The feeder is anchored down by the base to avoid floating away or getting blown around by the reef tank water current. Just a push and a twist on the feeding tube, and the feeder can be removed from the under-sand-anchor:
After pouring in the BBS, you can unscrew the feeding tube from the feeder. The rigid air tube is compression fitted to the screw-like connector. You can put in a blind-plug to close the hole without getting your hand wet.The screw-like connector is loosely fitted until the last turn.
Here is the top side with the funnel. I have some longer rigid air tube on order. I'm just using the short rigid air tube from my phyto culture for fitting/testing purpose.
Here is the under-sand-base and the feeder:
Everything is modular design. If you have a thinner/thicker air-tube, just need to re-print the screw-like compression connector. If you have a different size funnel, just re-print the funnel-airtube connector.
The screens are changeable as well. I know these holes are too big. I'll print some with tighter holes later. These are just the few prototype screens I printed for fitting purpose. They print faster with less dense print out.
The next step is to make the under-sand-mounting leg exchangeable, so that it could be buried in various places and situations.
Now, I need to get some fish to feed. lol
lestat45559
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Question would you mind sending me the file for the 3D printing station I need to make one for my system. I have no problem with paying for your coding time.
Thanks
Brian
Thanks
Brian
Greenm4ch1ne
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Im a week into a brine hatchery to feed some ponies and noticing theyre substantially smaller than the brine we got with the seahorses when they arrived. Does anyone know where to get eggs for the larger breed of Artemia. Artemia Salina I believe it is. Most egg packs just say Artemia.
KrisReef
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Feed them yeast and they will grow. New borns are tiny.
Greenm4ch1ne
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Awesome thanks ill try that
jayden kolonne
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Can I build a refugium/ copeopod breeding tank? If I can't, can I just throw pods and phyto into my tank and just let it grow? I have space under my tank and I think I would be cool to have a second seperate tank that utilizes nutrients from the display.
Gogol_frag
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Following. I am thinking of doing the same, but with L Rotifers from ReefNutrition. I like benethic feed since they stay in the water column. Currently I feed baby brine shrimps (around 8,000 daily) and live tertaselmis (around 100 ml daily), both limited by production capacity. Def. want to add rotifers to that list (fed with RGCimplete)
There is a seller in Ohio who sells Saltwater Molinas. That could be a great live food as well for a refugium tank. (but personally haven't tried yet).
My reef-soup tank is a 22 Gallon Food Grade Transparent Cambro Bin, areated by bendable bubble-wall diffusers, illuminated by a Tunze Submersible Refugium Light, bio-filtered using Tunze Comline Filter. Brine shrimp and Tetraselmis are grown separately.
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I believe the seller of the saltwater Molina Salina water fleas only sells them to walk-in customers. They are the only US source I know of. They were once available commercially from AlgaGen, but it was apparently a losing proposition for them. They are quite readily available to hobbyists in the UK. As far as I can tell, the chief problem with breeding them is their very short life expectancy. If anyone following this post lives in Ohio, I'll make it worth your while to buy some and ship them to me. The source is Aquatic Technology. “We are located in Columbia Station, Ohio, South of Cleveland, and North Olmsted and West of Strongsville.”
Gogol_frag
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Bingo that's the one, and I have contacted them via email. Will let you know how that goes.
Paul B
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Lestat, those feeders look very nice but the holes are much to large. The shrimp will swim right through them without slowing down. I think you need much smaller holes like you would find in stockings and I am not sure a printer can make them that small.
