Jim Brown
August 24th 03, 06:27 PM
Donald Kerns > wrote in message
...
> Greetings,
>
> One of the companies I'm involved with does some aquaculture work, and
> so I wound up at a larval fish conference last night.
>
> Turns out that people are using "rotifer"s as food for larval fish
> before they can eat baby brine shrimp.
>
> People feed vinegar eels and microworms to bettas. I'm wondering if
> anybody out there has tried rotifers?
>
> They are basically marine, but you can taper them down to 4 ppt salt and
> then feed them to freshwater fish...
>
> Oh, and if anybody in that industry has any openings for a
> system/software/industrial engineer/physicist with good project
> management skills, let me know. It looks like a whole heck of a lot of
> fun...
>
> The guys presenting have a couple million liters of algae under
> cultivation. Making it perhaps the largest man-made biofilter... ;-)
>
> -Donald
I believe the essential fats needed by freshwater and marine fry are
different.
It might work, but the ease of propagating brine shrimp, microworms and even
infusorians is a lot less work than marine rotifers.
Still, it's nice to know that this phase of the hobby is being looked into.
Jim
...
> Greetings,
>
> One of the companies I'm involved with does some aquaculture work, and
> so I wound up at a larval fish conference last night.
>
> Turns out that people are using "rotifer"s as food for larval fish
> before they can eat baby brine shrimp.
>
> People feed vinegar eels and microworms to bettas. I'm wondering if
> anybody out there has tried rotifers?
>
> They are basically marine, but you can taper them down to 4 ppt salt and
> then feed them to freshwater fish...
>
> Oh, and if anybody in that industry has any openings for a
> system/software/industrial engineer/physicist with good project
> management skills, let me know. It looks like a whole heck of a lot of
> fun...
>
> The guys presenting have a couple million liters of algae under
> cultivation. Making it perhaps the largest man-made biofilter... ;-)
>
> -Donald
I believe the essential fats needed by freshwater and marine fry are
different.
It might work, but the ease of propagating brine shrimp, microworms and even
infusorians is a lot less work than marine rotifers.
Still, it's nice to know that this phase of the hobby is being looked into.
Jim