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

[haika@drizzle.com]

I'll try to bring some....maybe even some daphnia cysts...tomorrow to the
auction. However, I'm right in the midst of a Siberian Husky rescue
situation and don't know if I'll be able make it tomorrow night. Depends
on a whole array of variables (weak grin).

Betty Goetz

> 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
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: haika@drizzle.com<mailto:haika@drizzle.com>
>   To: Greater Seattle Aquarium Society member
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>   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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