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12/13/2020, 09:05 AM | #1 |
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Spirulina powder as food for apocyclops?
Would spirulina powder work as food for Apocyclops copepods?
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12/21/2020, 03:17 PM | #2 |
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I'm not sure, but I do know that microalgae works very well. Just enough to tint the water a light cloudy green. Reed Mariculture is your friend.
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01/09/2021, 12:31 AM | #3 |
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Let's see...I know they can do well on algaepaste (Nannochloropsis if I remember right). You could try it, but I'd be careful about overfeeding. I always seem to overfeed with Spirulina, or something....
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01/09/2021, 08:21 AM | #4 |
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You’re right, it’s really easy to overfeed. They were doing great on spirulina powder, but then I realized I had Tigriopus and not Apocyclops!
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01/09/2021, 09:59 PM | #5 |
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Ah! Those darn tiggers!
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01/09/2021, 11:55 PM | #6 |
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Yup...I should be getting a replacement apocyclops culture in a few days. I'll probably just use Phyto Feast, though I might experiment with Spirulina.
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01/09/2021, 11:57 PM | #7 |
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So what's the deal with Nannochloropsis? I have a culture of that going strong. I've heard it's not a good food for pods, but I never really heard why.
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01/10/2021, 01:37 PM | #8 |
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I have no idea. Maybe it's not nutritionally complete. Maybe pods just don't like it (like I don't like brussel sprouts). Maybe it multiplies too rapidly and chokes out the pods.
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Another downside with Nannocloropsis is that it reproduces extremely fast and if the pods can't keep up eating it faster than it reproduces you may have a problem as well. From a nutritional standpoint it may not be the best possible algae but it isn't bad either. After all, it is a decent component of algae pastes for feeding rotifers and pods that don't mind dead feeds.
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02/09/2021, 06:59 PM | #10 |
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Thanks for the explanation ThRower.
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