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Unread 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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Unread 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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Unread 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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Unread 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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Ah! Those darn tiggers!


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Unread 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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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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Unread 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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Unread 02/09/2021, 06:40 PM   #9
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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.
Mostly because it is not a motile microalgae. Many pods prefer motile algae and some like Parvocalanus only eat motile algae. For those pods that are omnivores or detrivores it doesn't matter and Nannocloropsis is a suitable food.
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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Thanks for the explanation ThRower.


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