I've seen the writing on the wall... of other peoples' tanks/rotifer cultures available

[Kate Breimayer <kate@munat.com>]

Hi,
This is kind of a dumb question... I want to be able to write things on 
my tanks rather than use postits or stickers, just write directly on the 
glass, but I don't want it to be a pain to clean off (graffiti markers 
out) or too easy (dry erase). Anyone doing this and have a suggestion? I 
want to note presence of leaky spots, ph, obese fish on diets, fry too 
small for bbs, whatever it is I need to know. I have genus and species 
on stickers, that doesn't change often so stickers are fine, but ph and 
other parameters will need to be wiped off and rewritten from time to time.
Also have rotifers in fresh and marine if anyone wants a start. They are 
dicey to raise as they eat greenwater which meansyou need at least two 
cultures. They are really not a necessary thing to have around unless 
you raise fish with really tiny fry or marine inverts-a lot of corals 
need food in captivity. The best way to feed rotifers is to get a bottle 
of phytoplankton at the LFS and put a squirt of that in a bucket in a 
sunny spot in or outdoors, and use dirty tank water so the greenwater 
has a little fertilizer and no active chlorine neutralizer. Try to grow 
the greenwater and add a tiny bit of rotifers... the rotifers always 
win. Try to grow rotifers they die. Try to grow greenwater and the 
rotifers win. Go figure.
They do crash easily though, especially if they eat all the food. That's 
when the bottle in the fridge comes in handy.
Pain in the butt to raise but as I said worth it. Coral Beauty in 
Seattle has both rotifers and locally cultured, centrifuged greenwater 
concentrate too. There is a good product at a lot of marine stores 
called DT's phytoplankton, as long as it was shipped and stored chilled 
it's live and can be cultured or fed direct. If it stinks it's no good, 
you'd notice that pretty quick. Big stink.
I don't have a ton of this stuff but I would be happy to share what I 
have if someone needs it.
Kate B
Oly WA
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