Culturing brine shrimp in a reef tank?

[jason604]

im using kent marine'es phytoplex. Is this good enough or garbz?

[rayjay]

I use 5g water bottles to grow rotifers, and 26g rubbermaid garbage pails to raise the brine shrimp.
Those reactors would never supply me with enough product to feed my production of rots and brine so I used 5 and 6g pails and 26g rubbermaids to supply enough.
Now, I just have a couple of gallons of nanno that I use for seahorse fry containers when I have any on the go.
For the amount you are using, Jason, the phytoplex should do just fine.
For me, it would be EXTREMELY costly.

[monocus]

the problem with phytoplex is that the cells are dead.i like to culture my own as it is live

[rayjay]

Live or dead, as long as the nutrition is right and the rots and brine feed on it, it works for me.
It saves a lot of extra work to culture the live, especially when multiple types are needed.

[jason604]

Do mandarins eat roti?

[rayjay]

That I don't know. But mandarins eating brine is a crap-shoot also. Some will eat brine while others don't. Rots and brine are not a natural food for them.
In any case, the rots are so small it would take an awful lot of them to be of any significant nutrition input.
A lot of corals feed on rotifers.

[jason604]

What's a good and easy way of feeding my mandarin? Since I can't find any1 with pods in the area and JL sell them at rip off prices

[daniella3d]

feeding a mandarin with live white worms is much less of a trouble than having to hatch brine shrimp and the worms usually get to the liverock and bottom where the mandarin can eat them easily, as it is hard for a mandarin to eat free swimming things.

[jason604]

Originally Posted by Madreefer

Might have been a question to ask before you got the mandarin.

Originally Posted by daniella3d

feeding a mandarin with live white worms is much less of a trouble than having to hatch brine shrimp and the worms usually get to the liverock and bottom where the mandarin can eat them easily, as it is hard for a mandarin to eat free swimming things.

Interesting. Wonder where I can get these. My fish is about inch

[rayjay]

Did you have any specific type of white worm in mind?
All I've ever read about white worms is that they are really high in EPA, too high as far as some are concerned, and not high enough in DHA for the needs of salt water fish.
White worms are big with fresh water fish but they don't have the DHA needs that salt water fish do.