I am considering starting a large pod culture so I can generate enough pods to house a mandarin in my 29 biocube.
Anybody on here experienced in POD cultures want to look over my plan?
I plan on getting 4-6 BPA free 2-3 gallon beverage dispensers, half for phyto, and half for copepods. Each one will have a piece of rigid airline tubing to direct bubbles at a rate of 200ish bubbles per second in the phyto culture and 1-2 bubbles per second in the copepod cultures. The phyto cultures will be lit with an overhead 2 bulb, 24" t5 fixture with 6500k lights. The copepod culture will be lit indirectly with a clip on 60W equivalent warm white led. Every other day I intend to remove 100ml of copepod water from each container, strain through a brine shrimp net and add to the tank. The 100ml taken from the copepod cultures will be replaced with 100ml of phyto water, the phyto water will not be replenished until it is half empty during which I would add fertilizer and NSW to top the culture off.
Couple questions for the experts.
1. Should I go with nanochloripsys or is another strain better?
2. Are tisbe the way to go for the copepods or is there a better variety to use (my main tank is mostly amphipods and isopods, with lots of what appears to be rotifers in the water column)
3. Are there any places locally to procure the pods and phyto cultures or should I go with Algeagen for the pods and Florida Aqua Farms for the phyto cultures?
You might be an engineer if...You have no life and can prove it mathematically.
Anybody on here experienced in POD cultures want to look over my plan?
I plan on getting 4-6 BPA free 2-3 gallon beverage dispensers, half for phyto, and half for copepods. Each one will have a piece of rigid airline tubing to direct bubbles at a rate of 200ish bubbles per second in the phyto culture and 1-2 bubbles per second in the copepod cultures. The phyto cultures will be lit with an overhead 2 bulb, 24" t5 fixture with 6500k lights. The copepod culture will be lit indirectly with a clip on 60W equivalent warm white led. Every other day I intend to remove 100ml of copepod water from each container, strain through a brine shrimp net and add to the tank. The 100ml taken from the copepod cultures will be replaced with 100ml of phyto water, the phyto water will not be replenished until it is half empty during which I would add fertilizer and NSW to top the culture off.
Couple questions for the experts.
1. Should I go with nanochloripsys or is another strain better?
2. Are tisbe the way to go for the copepods or is there a better variety to use (my main tank is mostly amphipods and isopods, with lots of what appears to be rotifers in the water column)
3. Are there any places locally to procure the pods and phyto cultures or should I go with Algeagen for the pods and Florida Aqua Farms for the phyto cultures?
You might be an engineer if...You have no life and can prove it mathematically.
