How to Harvest Rotifers & Daily Water Change

This is a video on how to harvest rotifers and how to change and setup water in a rotifer culture.

Websites:

The Filter Guys (RO/DI system)
thefilterguys.biz

Rotifers
rotifer.com

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Rotifer
• culture
• water
• change
• salinity
• RO
• DI
• reverse
• osmosis
• deionized
• saltwater
• fish
• clownfish
• reef
• salt
• tank
• aquarium
• bay
• area
• aquatic
• pump
• green

[MysteryoftheGods]

Where'd you get the reef diet stuff? Can't find it online..

[fadifanous]

@MysteryoftheGods check out the websites in the description box

[Springs24]

What are rotifers and phyto? Is that something I could throw in my refugium?

[fadifanous]

@Springs24 you could but they wont last very long as rotifers only have an 8 day lifespan and get eaten by corals and fish.

[kpiotrowski2]

nice video! couldn't you just dump all the roti in a clean bucket every day before you harvest instead of wiping down the same one and loosening all the waste on the sides? just a thought.

[fadifanous]

@kpiotrowski2 yes you could

[fadifanous]

@stolen454 you can, but you have to culture more than you use for the feedings. I used to feed about 1/2 gallon a day and throw away 1/2 gallon. So if you set up the system where it uses the aqualifter to feed 1/2 gallona and replenish it with the float switch, it might work, but you have to manually takeout 1/2 gallon a day and keep up with feeding the nanochloropsis manually. IMO it will be a lot easier to do everything manullay than automate the system.

[stolen454]

Could you automate the system using a aqualifter on a timer for feedings and another float switch to keep the culture toped off? If so how often should feedings and cleanings be done to the culture bucket?

[chiclids]

Thanks for the tip I just notice my clownfish pair just spawned yesterday in the afternoon so this is there first clutch. I got it on my my channel.

[fadifanous]

@airbus530 The daily harvest can feed up to 4 breeding tanks. I have 2 5g buckets....1 as a backup in case one fails. the salinity should always be between 1.018-1.020.