EDITED WITH images African fan shrimp larva?
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Someone else said the salt would not kill them hopefullyyou are right
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I have the salinity at 20 ppt now about to raise it a bit more.
Ihad a couple 100 then this morning there are only about 30 so if the salt does kill them it must be at a higher level than what it is now
well like I was told atleast I know I have a good pair and next time I will be more prepared with the correct food etc
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I have the salinity at 20 ppt now about to raise it a bit more.
Ihad a couple 100 then this morning there are only about 30 so if the salt does kill them it must be at a higher level than what it is now
well like I was told atleast I know I have a good pair and next time I will be more prepared with the correct food etc
Have to agree with Mustafa. This clears up some questions I had in an earlier post. Please keep the updates and pictures coming.Mustafa wrote:you have to experiment with the salinity to keep the larvae alive. If 20 ppt does not work, then try 25-30ppt and see how that works. Thanks for the pictures by the way. That's a very nice pair of shrimp.
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We are in ncharted terriitoty. Some shrimp need full seawater of 30 PPT, others 15 PPT. I'm inding that saltwater rotifers and algae do not do well at 30 PPt. I am currently breeding algae at 1/2 srength and adding concentrated saltawater at feeding time to bring salinity to the required point.
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I've seen that my tetraselmis does fine at 30 ppt, but nanno takes awhile to start thriving in that salinity and prefers 20ppt or so. In any case, your method should do fine because generally it's not necessary for the greenwater to thrive inside of the larval rearing container... as long as the rotifers get a good regular infusion of it.
As for the rotifers, the cysts I got from Florida Aqua farms gave me guys that did fine at 31 ppt. When starting up a culture, salinity or temperature shock (when transferring from the small starter culture to the larger container) may thwart your chances of getting them to perpetuate in the larval container though. I also like to give them moderate aeration/circulation. Or, maybe they didn't send you the "S" (saltwater) variety.
As for the rotifers, the cysts I got from Florida Aqua farms gave me guys that did fine at 31 ppt. When starting up a culture, salinity or temperature shock (when transferring from the small starter culture to the larger container) may thwart your chances of getting them to perpetuate in the larval container though. I also like to give them moderate aeration/circulation. Or, maybe they didn't send you the "S" (saltwater) variety.