Reed Mariculture
Marine Larviculture & Aquarium Feeds

Target Animals

Rotifers / Day

Other Information

2,000

1,500

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500

If you are purchasing or culturing marine rotifers for your zebra fish, here is a simply protocol for putting the rotifers in freshwater without the osmotic pressures exploding them:

• Pour them through the 75 micrometer screen then rinse them on the screen with fresh water.
• Poured the concentrated rotifers into a cup with freshwater-- re-suspend. They'll stay alive for a while--long enough to interest the fish.
• Whatever doesn't get eaten can be siphoned off the bottom.
• This is a good technique for feeding in doses. You can maintain a happy rotifer culture in seawater and take what you need each time you feed. By re-suspending in the fish-culture water you don't change any of the parameters for the fish (i.e. salinity, temperature, pH.).