Culture Journal, Species: Parvocalanus crassirostris

General
Species:  Parvocalanus crassirostris 
Species description:  Calanoid copepod 
Culture source (link if possible):  http://tinyurl.com/b2ekbyw
If algae, CCMP # (Optional): 
http://ccmp.bigelow.edu/
Culture Establishment Date:  22 February 2013
Continuation Date: 

Culturing Vessel Details
Salinity:  1.024
Temperature:  Ambient, around 70-75°F   
pH:  Not Measured

Vessel description:  5 gallon bucket
Lighting description:   Strip LEDS, 6500k
Lighting cycle:   12 hours on, 12 hours off
Aeration description: Very light, a bubble every few seconds   

Methodologies
Split methodology:

Culture medium description: 

Maintain weak Isocrysis density
Cell count:
 (if known)

Reference links:   http://www.mbisite.org/Forums/tm.aspx?m=79048

Additional Information
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Notes: 



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Bottle the culture came in:
 

Zach,  Nice picture of a calanoid copepod you've got there!  It just doesn't look like a Parvocalanus crassirostris to me.  Check my avatar.  That is P. crassirostris.  My image is of a copepod with a much more squat, ovoid prosome shape.  Yours has a much more elongated, torpedo-shaped prosome.  I think yours is more consistent with Acartia tonsa.  Please see my A. tonsa journal here:  http://www.mbisite.org/Forums/tm.aspx?m=59805 and follow the Reference Links in the first post.  Then, follow this link, and examine the morphological images on this page:  http://copepodes.obs-bany...en/fichesp.php?sp=1090
 
You might consider discussing this with your vendor.
 

Thanks Jim! The culture by now I believe had died off, but I will doublecheck. Just for future purposes, do you have any site recommendations on where I can get some parvo?

I have two recommendations:
 
http://www.seahorsesource...p/detail.cgi?id=201230
 
http://apbreed.com/produc...nus_crassirostris.html