Culture Journal, Species: Apocyclops panamensis

General
Species: Apocyclops panamensis
Species description:  cyclopoid
Culture source (link if possible):  Andy, Unm_fish
If algae, CCMP # (Optional): 
http://ccmp.bigelow.edu/
Culture Establishment Date:  10/13/2011
Continuation Date: 

Culturing Vessel Details
Salinity:  1.020
Temperature:  76 
pH:  not measured

Vessel description:  2.5g black bucket
Lighting description:  compact florescent
Lighting cycle:  10/14
Aeration description:  low bubble count roughly 2 bubbles per second 

Methodologies
Split methodology:

Culture medium description: 
(this could range, example with algae could be “10ml per l of guillards F formulation” or with A. tonsa it would be more like “300ml per day of algal mixture containing gymnodynium, tetraselmis, isochrysis, and rhodomonas” )

Cell count:
 (if known)

Reference links:  

Additional Information
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Notes: 



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The cultures arived with very active pods.  After a few days, the activity level dropped quite a bit.  I would say that the two buckets I started were each start with roughly 100 pods.
 
Thus far, I have been feeding the culture o. marina.  Initially I was adding small amounts of RG+ while the o marina cultures ramped up.  The population stayed stable.  Five days ago I started feeding 1 (sometimes 2x a day) quart of the o marina culture into the apocyclops daily. 
 
Today was the first day I started to noticed a much more activity and the population count appears to be rising.   Still very small density.
 
I have also been adding a very small amount of flake to the cultures every few days.

culture still running fine.  This has been setup the same way pretty much the entire way with little issue.  2.5g buckets receiving roughly 2 quarts of medium density o marina and they continue to tick along with little effort.  Buckets are siphoned off to half full once a week or so.