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Almondsaz

Almondsaz

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I now have an added bonus. I have a small fuge area in my sump that I removed most everything, left the sand and a little LR rubble and some cheto. Left the light to cycle like a normal fuge. I made a 30 gallon fuge that is separate to the sump and focused my attention to getting that up and running and cultivating pods (which has happened nicely).

Just looked at the sump fuge and there are at least 50-100 mysis swimming around. Tried to take a pic but they are fast and small so hard to get a good lens shot - but I will still keep trying.

I haven't "seeded" them into the system.....nor have I added new LR recently. Any ideas how they got there?
 
I haven't seen them progress through the system...tried to get them into the new fuge to hopefully multiply..no success. I guess I will just have to wait until they find there way there..past the skimmer, heater, phos reactor and two pumps. COuld be a long wait.
 
I just tried that, got more pods into the 30gfuge.....but no mysis. They are all happily swimming in the old small fuge...at the bottom, in the rubble.:wall: smart little creatures.
 
the owner of my LFS syphoned several live mysis shrimp out of one of his tanks and now i have hundreds. they multiply very fast. now they are in my tank too, came from the refugium. their eye glow when you flesh light them. i never had them untill an actual intro to my system.
 
Sachs Systems Aquaculture (in FL) sells live mysid shrimp:
http://www.aquaculturestore.com/swinverts.html

I've ordered from them in the past with great success. They have excellent customer service and are very friendly / cooperative. I'll be ordering from them again once spring rolls around and the weather warms back up a little.
 
fsn77: glad to hear that you have had good experience with them. I have looked at their site to order from, but hadn't heard anything about them. They are one of the few places that sells the water lettuce which pods love.
 
sooooo. what temp do these things live in in the wild bra? (i.e. acclimation and longevity)

what do they eat?

(Bane's drooling)
 
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