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Shane H 
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 Topic: Phyto / Rotifers Attempt # 1
Posted: April 20 2004 at 9:56pm |
I put together a phyto and rotifers culture station. Please take a look (Suzy) and give me any feed back you may have. I believe the phyto is nannochloropsis. (got it from Mark) Do I want to keep the rotifers in front of the light? I have read conflicting opinions on this. I plan to add three additional 3 liter rotifer bottles to my set up. (green water on the left, rotifers on the right)
To maximize space, I ran the light tubes between the bottles. My wife is convinced this is a spill waiting to happen. For the time being, I've convinced myself that the kids will stay out of the storage room.
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Posted: April 20 2004 at 10:08pm |
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Very nice little mad scientist lab you have started there! Very efficient use of space and light!
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Posted: April 20 2004 at 10:12pm |
I don't really have anything constructive to add... But I think the set up looks very nice and organized!
... daddy, Jimmy's drinking all the green punch in the storage room and he won't share with me 
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Posted: April 21 2004 at 12:15am |
Looks refreshing. Makes me thirsty! Tastes like wood...and paint.
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Posted: April 21 2004 at 6:57am |
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Looks good! We have our rotifers in the light....
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Posted: April 21 2004 at 11:35am |
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shane, since I am new, can you explain your setup a little more and a little of the thought process behind it? Thanks
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Posted: April 21 2004 at 12:40pm |
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In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth ... then He let it cycle. Have you read my dinosaur theory yet?
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Posted: April 21 2004 at 2:42pm |
That is a lot of phyto 
Nice setup.
I also keep my rotifer cultures in front of the lights
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Shane H
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Posted: April 21 2004 at 10:49pm |
Hey - I need rotifers!!!!!
Adam is right - I have too much green! If anyone wants to donate/sell/trade me some I'd be much obliged.
Also, I saw a great rotifer grow out container at Sam's club. They sell a great big tub o'cheese balls. It is made of plastic and has to hold about three gallons. The whole family is gonna have orange fingers this weekend. 
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Posted: April 24 2004 at 8:50am |
Two of those containers are what I call my "jugs". They are in my window. One is a freshwater planted jug (thanks to Chem Guy) and one is a nano reef jug! The nano is where I keep growing algae and giving it away. I just added another small clam to see how fast it would clear up the phytoplankton compared to using rotifers.
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Posted: April 25 2004 at 9:20am |
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Shane H
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Posted: April 26 2004 at 9:16am |
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Good idea Richard!
Update: Thanks to Suzy's rotifers (that I got from Mark) I grew and fed my first batch of rotifers over the weekend. I added about 1/2 gallon to my previous rotifer culture on Friday night. By Sunday a.m. the green had turned yellow and by Sunday p.m. the yellow had lightened significantly. I strained the rotifers through a coffee filter and rinsed it into my tank. The fish went crazy!
I wonder how long I can keep the rotifer batches going????
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Posted: May 12 2004 at 11:04pm |
I saw the links to the other threads on starting this but I guess I just didn't see and instructions. is there a good set of step by step newbie instructions out there?
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Posted: May 13 2004 at 5:31am |
Shanepj,
You might try two things, (1) contact Suzy on this board, (2) http://www.sjwilson.net/reef/phytosteps.html
Good luck, this is way easy!
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Posted: May 13 2004 at 11:22am |
WUHOOO!!! I get to have my own mad scientist lab now.
Thanks for the info!!!!!
Shane
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Even with the MMW in it????
And it really tastes like wood and paint? I never really wondered what MMW tasted like
. . .but what does wood or paint taste like? (yuck, yuck, yuck, yuck, yuck!)
. I doubt it would do much for the drinking issue though (still yuck).