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Re:Culture Journal, Species: Americamysis bahia (Mysid shrimp)
Sunday, May 25, 2014 10:03 AM
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Well, I lost interest in these, as I really don't have a use for them at the moment, so I shut down the system yesterday. I think it worked, it was just not what I need to be spending time on right now.
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Re:Culture Journal, Species: Americamysis bahia (Mysid shrimp)
Sunday, May 25, 2014 9:08 PM
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I'm in the same boat. Now that I don't have a ton of baby cuttlefish relying on live food, I ask myself "should I bother with this culture?"
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Re:Culture Journal, Species: Americamysis bahia (Mysid shrimp)
Saturday, June 7, 2014 12:53 AM
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I don't know much about live mysis shrimp, I've heard that they are chock full of fats and calories. But can I ask a dumb question? If brine shrimp are so easy to grow out and to gutload with fat, why should we bother with mysis given their rather slow reproduction rate and requirement of relatively high quality food? When I say high quality food, I just mean high quality in relation to brine shrimp, which can grow on many inert foods like flour or the dust emptied from your vacuum cleaner. Just kidding about vacuum dust, but I hope you get my drift. I'm not sure of the size of mysids, but it seems that they don't fill any niche that artemia don't already fill. Please educate me a little so I can decide if I should try to culture these. I really like your culture method.
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Re:Culture Journal, Species: Americamysis bahia (Mysid shrimp)
Saturday, June 7, 2014 7:56 AM
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Well, there is certianly a lot more meat on them than brine shrimp. They are signifcantly larger. I haven't studied on this, but I think they have a better nutritional profile than brine, even not loading their guts.
check out Kathy's Clowns, llc website: http://kathysclowns.com Captive bred clownfish and more (Wholesale to the trade.)
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Re:Culture Journal, Species: Americamysis bahia (Mysid shrimp)
Saturday, June 7, 2014 11:32 AM
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I think you're right, they normally store more fat reserves than brine shrimp, just as copepods are more nutritious than even the best loaded rotifers. And if you had only a pair of picky seahorses for example, I could see raising mysis for them. I'm all for variety and raising every type of zooplankton possible, it just seems that mysis are much harder to grow than brine shrimp without filling a unique niche. Raising five or ten gut loaded artemia seems like a lot less work than culturing one mysis.
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