How often do you harvest? Do they reproduce quick? I'm planning on starting a dwarf sea horse tank and I don't wanna have to buy food ahahah
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You'll want to do rotifers as well as copepods.
You can do both in the same culture, and I've heard of people doing brine shrimp at the same time as well.
I harvest every 2 weeks. I run 2 cultures at once in 5 gallon buckets, but I'm thinking of down sizing to the same size containers that I do phyto in, but I am going to experiment first before just taking the plunge.
I harvest one culture at a time, which means the culture gets a month to rebuild before harvesting again.
The way I do it is salinity at 1.20 (just like the phyto) with 2.5g volume in a 5 gallon bucket, and every couple of days, I add salt water to the culture with the phyto, about half a liter, which adds nutrition and dilutes urea (trace), until harvesting when it is right at about 5 gallons.
Aeration is the same way as the phyto, but a little less, like 2 or 3 bubbles a second.
Some days I will skip aeration. And I trade a light between the buckets, back and forth.
I've not yet had a crash, but I am not quite at ideal proliferation, so I tend to supplement a bag of pods about every other month.
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