Re: [GSAS-Member] HELP! My Blue Rams have hatched!

["A JACOBSON" <amjacobson52@msn.com>]

Sounds good, but right now I don't have the cash to invest in cultures.  Is 
anyone willing to provide me with some daphnia and/or freshwater rotifers?  In 
exchange, I'll give you plants (have a wide variety growing in my tanks) and, 
if this spawn is successful, pick of the litter.

Anita
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  From: haika@drizzle.com<mailto:haika@drizzle.com> 
  To: Greater Seattle Aquarium Society member 
chat<mailto:gsas-member@thekrib.com> 
  Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 1:13 PM
  Subject: Re: [GSAS-Member] HELP! My Blue Rams have hatched!


  Another thought would be to hatch out daphnia ephippium (cysts) or to
  culture some freshwater rotifers. That's what I've done for my baby honey
  gouramis...mostly cuz I didn't want to deal with salty water (shrug). I've
  also gotten smaller copepods (a mix...including cyclops etc)which seem to
  boom and bust for me.

  I've gotten quite a few of my cultures through:
  
http://www.aquaculturestore.com/fwinverts.html<http://www.aquaculturestore.com/fwinverts.html>

  I've noticed that the daphnia cysts from my wild-collected culture hatch
  out within 24 hours when remoistened. I learned this when one of our
  bucket cultures here at work evaporated a bit and left a ring of cysts
  (black seed-looking thingies) around the bucket rim cuz we'd been working
  too much OT and forgot to feed the little red jumpy guys. That's when they
  start to produce the cysts for us. Once I filled the bucket back up and
  the cysts were rehydrated, we had teeny tiny pink babies the next day.

  Betty Goetz

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