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Posted: July 25 2015 at 3:21pm |
I'm looking at starting a culture of pods/rotifers for fish and coral food and would like to see some pictures of your live food culture. Here is what I've got so far. 
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Posted: July 25 2015 at 9:07pm |
It's not much to look at but produces pods like crazy. I have tisbe pods on the left and tigger pods on the right. 
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Posted: July 25 2015 at 9:35pm |
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I like it. 5 gallon?
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Posted: July 25 2015 at 9:40pm |
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10 gallon split in half yeah.
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Posted: July 26 2015 at 11:51am |
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Do you culture your own phytoplankton?
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Posted: July 26 2015 at 9:46pm |
Rotifer cultures are easy and great food for coral and filter feeders, but there are frozen products from Brine Shrimp Direct in Ogden and other companies outside Utah that are easier than a live culture, yet still very nutritious. The lower tank was a Rotifer culture to feed the clownfish nursery above. Clownfish larvae don't eat frozen too easily for me.
Another of my Rotifer cultures up close after the phyto had been eaten and digested. They were very hungry. It becomes important to keep the Rotifer culture fed with sufficient density of Phytoplankton.
Ever since Phytoplankton became available in liquid paste form at reasonable cost, we don't bother with culturing our own (see pics below) because it's very difficult to keep a phyto culture going for very long. Brine Shrimp Direct's Tahitian Blend is awesome. I have a bottle in the freezer that feeds Marks Reef Coral Farm.
Aloha, Mark 
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Posted: July 26 2015 at 10:38pm |
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I don't culture phytoplankton. Kind of like Mark said it's too easy to use the paste and for my small culture a bottle lasts a long time.
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Posted: July 27 2015 at 6:59am |
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Interesting. I was thinking of culturing phytoplankton along side my pods because I wasn't sure how long a bottle would last me. I have been looking at the brineshrimpdirect.com web site a lot and I think that is where I will order my rotifers then order pods from reef2go. I was going to go with the nannochloropsis (I think that's what it's called. Might be a misspelled word.) But maybe I'll try the blend if you have had good luck with it. Hopefully will have my culture up and going by the end of this week.
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Posted: July 27 2015 at 7:08am |
You may be misunderstanding or I am. I believe BSD does not sell live cultures. They have only stuff that has been filtered, concentrated and then frozen for easy use. If you want live cultures, try local breeders, like tttb/Thuan here on the forum or A Reef Oasis in Orem.
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Posted: July 27 2015 at 9:00am |
I don't think so it says starter culture. http://www.brineshrimpdirect.com/c193/Rotifer-Cysts-Saltwater-or-Freshwater-c194.htmlFixed the link
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Posted: July 27 2015 at 7:05pm |
I didn't realize they had those. 
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