Culturing brine shrimp in a reef tank?

[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

[monocus]

there are many people with pods in their sumps.some filter floss in anyone's sump could get a starter culture of pods.rotifers can enrich brine shrimp for feeding as they are microscopic,but they are only as nutritious as their last meal.that's why i feed my rotifers various phyto.also check with anybody that has filter socks.you could get pods from there as well

[Madreefer]

Originally Posted by 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

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