Author
|
Message
|
Feeding shrimp - Larvae stage
Sunday, April 1, 2012 1:25 PM
( permalink)
Why is everyone using ONLY BBS? Copepods wont work? When can you wean them to dry or frozen foods?
|
|
|
Re:Feeding shrimp - Larvae stage
Sunday, April 1, 2012 1:46 PM
( permalink)
I used copepods (Apocyclops) for my early stage L. boggessi.
|
|
|
Re:Feeding shrimp - Larvae stage
Sunday, April 1, 2012 1:52 PM
( permalink)
i am in the same position . i am completely tired of working with bbs all together . dirty, die off , poor nutrition and too much fuss . i am running large tubs and its too costly to stock them with bs for 40+ days and a pain in the A to clean them . no matter how careful i am and how thorough i decapsulate i just cant keep the cysts out of my tubs . not to mention the problems with medusa's and hydroids being introduced via artemia .... its for the birds. i have been working on a semi- co culture technique involving as complete of a food chain as i can with the use of I.A. , dinos , rots and pods . takes a little time ramping up the pod population in tubs of this volume but i think it will be worth the time . my experiments indicate boggessi larvae will eat anything they can catch .
|
|
|
Re:Feeding shrimp - Larvae stage
Sunday, April 1, 2012 1:57 PM
( permalink)
 Originally Posted by r33fking
i am in the same position .
i am completely tired of working with bbs all together . dirty, die off , poor nutrition and too much fuss .
i am running large tubs and its too costly to stock them with bs for 40+ days and a pain in the A to clean them . no matter how careful i am and how thorough i decapsulate i just cant keep the cysts out of my tubs . not to mention the problems with medusa's and hydroids being introduced via artemia .... its for the birds.
i have been working on a semi- co culture technique involving as complete of a food chain as i can with the use of I.A. , dinos , rots and pods .
takes a little time ramping up the pod population in tubs of this volume but i think it will be worth the time .
my experiments indicate boggessi larvae will eat anything they can catch .
This is what I was instant messaging you about. Great info, thanks!!
|
|
|
Re:Feeding shrimp - Larvae stage
Sunday, April 1, 2012 3:43 PM
( permalink)
My boggessi don't seem to do well on rotifers (too fast?). I have the same success using frozen Cyclopeeze as I did using BBS, so I ditched using BBS. Andy Rhyne et al. suggest that using 2 or more food types gets the best success. They mention using dry flake/pellet in addition to BBS. Since I was already using Cyclopeeze, I was starting to add some BBS every 2nd day or so. I wasn't very consistent with the BBS though since they are such a pain to hatch. I don't have any copepods otherwise I would try that.
|
|
|
Re:Feeding shrimp - Larvae stage
Sunday, April 1, 2012 3:51 PM
( permalink)
Not having worked with shrimp yet I can't be sure but I'm thinking that getting a high density pod culture going may be the tough part. Most pods reproduce slower than one can hatch brine. Not that I'm a fan of brine by any means.
|
|
|
Re:Feeding shrimp - Larvae stage
Sunday, April 1, 2012 10:04 PM
( permalink)
They will eat dry (crushed flakes, pellets) from day one. I clean the bottom of the tank an hour after I feed dry, so I don't feed dry till the larvae are little bigger and easier to see.
<message edited by ssabey on Monday, April 2, 2012 1:54 AM>
|
|
|
Re:Feeding shrimp - Larvae stage
Monday, April 2, 2012 7:03 PM
( permalink)
Yeah, shrimp larvae aren`t very picky. They will eat live, frozen, dry. From what I have learned, the issue seems to be keeping the food particles suspended so the shrimp can get them, and keeping up water quality.
|
|
|
Re:Feeding shrimp - Larvae stage
Monday, October 13, 2014 8:52 AM
( permalink)
I just looked at some of my emerald larvae under my scope. I'm in day 3, and I pulled two that looked white-ish (I thought they may acually be dead ones) and one darker one. Under the scope I found that the two whiter ones were zoea two and the darker one was still zoea one. If I see one spread out instead of in a tight ball it is usually dead.
|
|
|
|