Re: [GSAS-Member] Baby Brine Shrimp or similar

["Betty Goetz" <haika@drizzle.com>]

Just about all my fishless containers (water lily above-ground 'ponds'
etc)  outside have freshwater copepods now and those are pretty teeny. I'm
sure they are small enough for cichlid fry. Swishing the net around the
edge of the container and everting the net into a water-filled dish
usually gives me enough to feed my live-food eating fish daily. I use an
eyedropper to capture dropperfuls of critters that congregate on the side
of the dish closest to light. These copepods seem to like to cling to the
side of a container rather than hopping around the water column like
daphnia. I've got some daphnia, limited numbers of bloodworms and a few
mosquito larvae which showed up in the cultures as of last week. Spring is
coming!

I got my initial copepods from:

http://www.aquaculturestore.com/fwinverts.html

but don't know if they are a critter that just shows up eventually in
outside water like Cyclops.

I have trouble doing the worm-thing unless it's a non-white worm like
tubifex. I've got these long thin reddish worms that showed up in my
water-lily ponds that seem to like old Japanese maple leaves (at least
that's where they seem to congregate). The fish like those as well.

Betty Goetz (who is NOT a freshwater invertebrate biologist....weak grin)

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