Ciliates?
Monday, February 10, 2014 2:32 PM
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Has anyone ever tried culturing these/know a source to buy some? I plan on culturing them for my pelagic spawners, since ciliates were used, but don't know quite where to start a culture from....I plan on checking my sumps when I get back home and see if there are any in there that I could use, but any other help/information you guys could give me would be wonderful! Do they eat algae like other zooplankton? Or do I need a special "helper" along the way like diatoms do? Thanks, Amph
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Re:Ciliates?
Monday, February 10, 2014 3:21 PM
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Have you checked your other cultures, especially a culture that has crashed or nearly crashed? I found Euplotes in my not-so-well rotifer cultures. You could let some of that completely crash out them, and take some of that water, put in a new container and try for just ciliates that way....
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Re:Ciliates?
Saturday, May 24, 2014 7:30 AM
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Hope this reply isn't too late. If you want to get ciliates just take any type of junk from any aquarium and put it in a dark container with something like a few grains of wheat, some flour, a piece of cat food. In a week or two you will have lots of ciliates.
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Re:Ciliates?
Friday, December 12, 2014 1:59 AM
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I have a vacation planned to the outer banks of NC this summer (hooray!), and wonder if it worthwhile to collect some wild pods? Is there a reasonable chance that I could start a culture of something useful, or would it more likely be a mixed mess that eventually goes down th drain? If anyone has any experience doing this let me know.
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Re:Ciliates?
Friday, December 12, 2014 2:20 PM
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Endrio, I have a GREAT deal of experience collecting useful things from the coast, bringing them home to culture then watching them all die into a mass of stink. In fact, I consider myself a leading expert. Bring a pillowcase or a filter sock if you want to collect copepods. It takes 15-20 minutes while up to your knees in the surf but I always get dozens to hundreds of copepods like that. You'll get more calanoids during the day and more harpacticoids at night. If you go to a brackish place like where a river empties into the ocean you'll get a lot of variety. You can make a wire hoop and attach the pillowcase or filter sock to a broomstick. My wife always has extra broomsticks lying around but don't tell her I said that. Pillowcases are actually kind of bulky to handle and you'll get plenty of copepods with a filter sock.
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