Please educate me Rotifers!!!

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  1. April Hope

    April Hope Fire Shrimp

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    Help!!!! I have a new clutch of Clowns due in a week. I have ordered live rotifers but for the future would like to culture them. Is green water the medium I need to put them in? There is no breeders here and I don't want to kill the fry.

    Everything I read is specific ingredients and my LFS says green water is correct. That being said, how
    Much per a 5 gallon bucket?
     
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  3. Armydog

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    Are you pulling the eggs?

    Do you have a separate tank that your going to raise them in?
     
  4. April Hope

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    Yes, we will syphoning them. And we have a 10 gallon tank we are syphoning them into.
     
  5. Armydog

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    Most breeders pull the eggs and put a bubbler on them and blackout the tank.

    But Im not 100% sure there is an exact formula of rotifers to green water.

    I have a couple friends that breed clownfish I'll ask them and see what they say
     
  6. April Hope

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    We will pull them with an air stone in the tank. But we syphoning them after they hatch because our rock that they lay on is not removeable. But I have never bred rotifers. We have been buying them but it is a pain.

    Thanks Armydog.
     
  7. Armydog

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    Np waiting on their reply now
     
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  9. Armydog

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    He said a pint glass but they eat a lot so you will need to produce a lot of green water. When they are feeding I guess the water foams. You want the water a light green color.

    He still raises rotifers but now uses rg complete concentrate instead of green water.

    http://apbreed.com/product_rgcomplete.php
     
  10. mdbostwick

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    You will have to check daily to make sure the water stays green. If the water clears they this means they have run out of food and will crash quickly
     
  11. April Hope

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    Good I just ordered RG complete and a rotifer kit. Hopefully it has better instructions than I have found online. Thank you for your help!
     
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  12. April Hope

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    So just keep to tinting it green daily, or whenever the green begins to fade.