Culturing Saltwater Rotifers–Introduction
Over the next several posts, I plan to lay out a rough framework for how I culture live rotifers. I feed the rotifers (and phytoplankton) to my display tank every few days–and I also will use them as a first food if I am lucky enough to have my clowns spawn again. Culturing rotifers is
Live Rotifer Under Magnification
easy to do at home, so if you obtain a live culture, follow the advice in the next few blog posts and you’ll be well on your way to successfully culturing these little guys. It takes a couple of weeks to get the hang of it–especially if you have to have the rotifers shipped to you, but you should be able to have a pretty stable culture in just a couple of weeks. One of the interesting things about rotifers, however, is that they don’t contain very much nutrition (at least for the larvae/coral we intend to feed them to). Rotifers are non-selective filter feeders. So they eat whatever is suspended in the water. The trick is to feed them nutritious stuff, so that when they, in turn, are eaten, their guts are loaded with nutritious foods, like natural phytoplankton or SELCO. Over the next few posts, I’ll take you through the process of culturing your own rotifers at home.
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