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Posted: July 02 2006 at 3:02pm |
Not that BS!
Has anyone tried to grow a continuous culture of brine shrimp? Hatching is relatively easy, but getting these guys to spawn is sooo freakin' easy!
Check out all the newborns:
Zooplankton for Dummies! I am going to write it!
Here's a mommy( at this momnet. I think she is very close to becoming a daddy?)
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Posted: July 02 2006 at 4:30pm |
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That is VERY cool ... I would like to come see your setup Suzy ... I would be VERY intrested in keeping a fresh batch of BS available ....
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Posted: July 02 2006 at 5:17pm |
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Suzy, can you grow them in lower salinities like 1.020. Im thinking that way one can dump them directly into the tank and have some survive and maybe reproduce.
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Posted: July 02 2006 at 5:20pm |
Do I remember correctly that during the summer in the wild, or in continuous culture in captivity, BS nauplii are often born live rather than released in egg capsules?
Suzy, are you saying that after releasing eggs (or young) the BS is temporarily a male?
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Posted: July 02 2006 at 6:08pm |
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Suzy, you're killin' me. Such a tease!
I am dying to know how you raise your brineshrimps!
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If you can't bedazzle them with your brilliance, baffle them with your bs!
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Posted: July 02 2006 at 6:44pm |
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I think I remember Mr Rhyne saying shrimp can be both genders. When a female has her brood (as live fry babies), she then becomes a male?
They have live babies, but when it gets colder, and the food supply diminishes, they start making (cysts)eggs.
I think they could easily be raised in a saliinity of 1.020, but when they are added to a tank with any other live creatures, they are instantly eaten! They are so quickly consumed, I don't think it matters what salinity you add them to!
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Posted: July 03 2006 at 12:45am |
I've had great success with growing brine shrimp out as well. They are so easy and everything in the tank loves them. What are you feeding yours? Just phyto?
I've started to decapsulate the eggs before starting a new batch and I'm amazed how easy it is. I should have been doing that a long time ago. It keeps the water so much cleaner.
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Posted: July 03 2006 at 6:05am |
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I don't. Mone seem to thrive on skummy water!
I try to keep their water tinted green with tetraselmis. I have read it has a natural antibiotic? But, I always thought the reason some of the BS in the GSL were green because of what they ate? Mine are all red....
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Posted: July 05 2006 at 12:01am |
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BTW, your pictures are incredible. Are they in a petri dish? Or are you looking through a microscope? I've tried taking pictures of my new clownfish larvae and the pictures turn out terrible. The camera focuses on the heater or the other side of the tank, or even the rotifers.
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Posted: July 05 2006 at 8:47am |
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No, that is their tiny 2 gallon hex tank!
I've found with my camera, it I get too close to the glass, it is way blurry, but if I back up a few inches, it turns out. Then, I crop it closer. Did you see the pic I got of a copepod? That was from a microscope.
I should have elaborated a bit on the decapsulation question. I don't because I rarely have to hatch! I just let the mommies have their babies live, then I siphon some off and add more phyto....the culture just lives on!
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Posted: July 05 2006 at 8:51am |
Oh this is about brine shrimp...
I thought "Continuous BS" was descriptive of our involement on this message board  |
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Posted: July 05 2006 at 8:58am |
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I knew you would think that!
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Posted: July 06 2006 at 12:28am |
I took it to mean both.
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Posted: July 06 2006 at 2:36am |
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On Drs. Foster Smith's web site (And in their catalog) they have a continuous hatching station for brine shrimp. Has anyone tried it? Obviously Suzy does not need to try it!
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