Luis A M wrote:I microwave the fertilized starter cultures of 60ml.I chlorinate larger volumes
Meaning the medium,of course

So you fertilize the
asw and then microwave that on your smaller cultures? That was my original plan but I heard that can mess with the B vitamins. I don't really like the idea of using chlorine and a dechlorinator. Seems so much easier just to pop it in the microwave. I mean I don't think I'm going to need more than three 32oz cultures going at one time. When I was culturing
nanno I always had way more than I would ever need.
On another note, I read your page on calanoids and tons of stuff on
larvae rearing, which got me to this point in the first place, and I wanted to ask you a few questions. I got the impression on your thread that it is difficult to produce enough nauplii to feed
larvae on them alone. I have heard elsewhere that this is not the case. Did you mean on a large scale? Like I said before I want to try to grow some FPG
larvae. I can get my pair to produce
larvae readily. My plans are to try to raise them on calanoids first(no rotifers) and after
meta frozen cyclops and tisbe. After I have sufficient phyto I will start 3X1
.5 liter cultures each of parvo, pseudo, and a tonsa. I hope to try my hand a egg collecting as well.
So, thats 3 32oz containers of
iso going with
4.5 liters of parvo,
4.5 liters of pseudo, and
4.5 liters a. tonsa to raise anywhere from 30 to 100 FPG
larvae in a two gallon container. The container will be supplemented with phyto and adults too in order to culture calanoids in the
larvae tank along side the fish.
Do you think this setup has a chance of working? You can see some more info on this
thread. I do plan to post a thread hear too in the near future. Keep in mind these fish are tiny.