Culture Journal, Species: Tisbe biminiensis

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Bongo Shrimp
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Culture Journal, Species: Tisbe biminiensis - Thursday, April 11, 2013 11:40 PM
Culturing Journal DataSheet
This first post should be updated regularly to include new information as events take place or changes are made to your system

General
Species:  Tisbe biminiensis
Species description:  Small harpacticoid copepod 
Culture source (link if possible):  http://www.liveaquaria.co...0+3058&pcatid=3058
If algae, CCMP # (Optional): 
http://ccmp.bigelow.edu/
Culture Establishment Date:  September 15, 2012
Continuation Date:  March 23, 2014

Culturing Vessel Details
Salinity:  1.025-1.050, I try to keep it near 1.025 but it does fluctuate.
Temperature:  65-78ºF (in basement right next to a furnace)
pH:  Not measured

Vessel description:  5g buckets
Lighting description:  Indirect from the compact fluorescent bulbs over my other cultures.
Lighting cycle:  10 hrs
Aeration description:  None.  I tried strong and weak aeration but found the less the better and none the best.

Methodologies
Split methodology: Once a month.  I sieve about half of the water volume out of the culture to collect copepods and then replenish the culture with synthetic seawater using Seachem Reef Salt.

Culture medium description: 
The copeopds are fed powdered (using a mortar and pestle) Spectrum Thera A pellets about every other day.    
 
As of around late 2013 I have begun feeding 50-100um Golden Pearls and will soon begin mixing in a small amount of powdered Spirulina algae.        

Cell count:
Not measured         

Reference links:  

Additional Information
(No Pictures or Videos in the Section Please)
Notes: 

 
<message edited by Bongo Shrimp on Sunday, March 23, 2014 8:10 PM>

Bongo Shrimp
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Re:Culture Journal, Species: Tisbe biminiensis - Thursday, April 11, 2013 11:42 PM
Sorry for the terrible pics.  My $30 microscope is not really good at taking pics of things this small.

 


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Re:Culture Journal, Species: Tisbe biminiensis - Sunday, March 23, 2014 7:56 PM
New pic as of 3/23/2014. And with my iPhone this time!

 
 
 
All of my work is done with the help of member altolamprologus (Heather Mutschler).  She shares all credit evenly with me for our accomplishments.

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Re:Culture Journal, Species: Tisbe biminiensis - Monday, April 7, 2014 10:08 AM
What sorts of densities are you getting with these?  I keep thinking I should set up some cultures of these, but not sure I would get the enough naups and/or adults to make it worthwhile

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Re:Culture Journal, Species: Tisbe biminiensis - Friday, June 6, 2014 9:24 PM
I'm curious about the food switch - did you see any changes when you altered the diet?