just thought id share because i was excited lol. i have now confirmed that i have a very healthy breding population of mysis shrimp in both my fuge and display tank. they are very abundant. anyway here are some microscope pictures i took with my scopecam
I bought some live mysis online and added them to our tank over 6 months ago. We still have a breeding population of them in the main tank and the refugium.
I bought some live mysis online and added them to our tank over 6 months ago. We still have a breeding population of them in the main tank and the refugium.
If you look at your tank at night with a flashlight covered with a red lens, you will see around the bottom, between the rocks, scads of these mysids swimming around in almost any tank that has had live rock added to it.
Each time I do a water change in my tanks, I harvest these mysids for selling to seahorse hobbyists, although their speed makes them hard to get out of the container I siphon into.
They feed on the detritus in your tanks and while they eat brine shrimp nauplii, they don't need them as I never feed naplii to my tanks.
I have fed nauplii to them in my mysid raising tank, but now use spirulina flake food as they seem to prefer that much more.
Some day when I get around to it I'll build a mysid generator so my sales can increase. MYSID GENERATOR COURTESY OF MBL AQUACULTURE
Mysids are slow to populate compared to raising adult brine shrimp but they make great food for fish like dwarf lions when gut loaded with spirulina.
