Project Orange
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What might that be? Shrimpies? Haven't raised any from the zoea stage as yet.
Back from holiday and getting things all squared away. Washing out the zoea tanks and will be moving females over to them. I'll move over (2) Amano's and (2) ninja's today. I'm going to try to work on building the permanent station as well.
Most of the phyto is growing well. The Isochrysis is growing green again. I thought this phyto was a golden brown algae. I'm trying to contact the supplier for verifcation. The Dunaliella is slow going but looks like it is finally getting established. Cultures may be ready to split just in time for the new zoea.
I'll also get the O. Cocama tank finished and then restock it with C. Propinqua to get them back to where they need to be for the project. I've set up a different tank for the Red Nose with less current so that should keep them happy.
Most of the phyto is growing well. The Isochrysis is growing green again. I thought this phyto was a golden brown algae. I'm trying to contact the supplier for verifcation. The Dunaliella is slow going but looks like it is finally getting established. Cultures may be ready to split just in time for the new zoea.
I'll also get the O. Cocama tank finished and then restock it with C. Propinqua to get them back to where they need to be for the project. I've set up a different tank for the Red Nose with less current so that should keep them happy.
Yeah, Shrimpies
I would love to buy some orange to add to my yellows, RCS, and tigers.
Busy day in store for today. I'm currently waiting for the cable guy to show up so as you know....that means I got plenty of time to work with.
Amano's: One lady has started hatching her eggs. There is a couple dozen zoea floating about with still a ton more to hatch. The other lady looks as if hers will hatch any day now as well.
Propinqua: Finally found a berried female. Awesome. I'll move her into isolation shortly. I don't have many of these guys left but getting ready to get some more in.
Ninja's: There are a few berried ladies in the tank. These guys breed very rapidly. Only thing is that I don't know how long they have been berried. I'm going to try to house two ladies together and just hope the hatching times will be close together. If not, I stand the chance of loosing an entire batch.
Harvesting phyto cultures today. Will be making up a new cocktail mix. New specimens of Isochrysis and D. salinia have arrived. My last two didn't fare well under culturing so have to reestablish them. I also just recently discovered that I have the C. Iso strain. While this one should work just fine, I'm looking to get the T. Iso strain. I have a lead on it now so hopefully that will pan out.
Amano's: One lady has started hatching her eggs. There is a couple dozen zoea floating about with still a ton more to hatch. The other lady looks as if hers will hatch any day now as well.
Propinqua: Finally found a berried female. Awesome. I'll move her into isolation shortly. I don't have many of these guys left but getting ready to get some more in.
Ninja's: There are a few berried ladies in the tank. These guys breed very rapidly. Only thing is that I don't know how long they have been berried. I'm going to try to house two ladies together and just hope the hatching times will be close together. If not, I stand the chance of loosing an entire batch.
Harvesting phyto cultures today. Will be making up a new cocktail mix. New specimens of Isochrysis and D. salinia have arrived. My last two didn't fare well under culturing so have to reestablish them. I also just recently discovered that I have the C. Iso strain. While this one should work just fine, I'm looking to get the T. Iso strain. I have a lead on it now so hopefully that will pan out.
What a day today! Got home a few minutes ago. Two and half hours sitting in traffic. Bad accident. So I'm already in a foul mood by the time I walk in the door. Start my normal routine of checking in on things and find my Propinqua lady dumped all her eggs. After one day! Grrrr! What a bum deal.
Cleaned out the tank that she was going into and will transfer another Amano lady in there.
Started washing a batch of zoea out to sea. I'm going for something a little different this time. I'm gonna shoot for a salinity of 1.018 on this round. Need to eliminate some of the lower salinities. I'm also going to try a different method on the air. I took a short piece of tubing and drilled some small holes in it. Going to place that on the end of the bubbler and see if I can't get some better tank movement as well as increase in the oxygen in the water. I'm also going to control the feeding more this time as opposed to just dropping a a bit in the tank and letting it ride.
Dinner time so I'll update more later.
Cleaned out the tank that she was going into and will transfer another Amano lady in there.
Started washing a batch of zoea out to sea. I'm going for something a little different this time. I'm gonna shoot for a salinity of 1.018 on this round. Need to eliminate some of the lower salinities. I'm also going to try a different method on the air. I took a short piece of tubing and drilled some small holes in it. Going to place that on the end of the bubbler and see if I can't get some better tank movement as well as increase in the oxygen in the water. I'm also going to control the feeding more this time as opposed to just dropping a a bit in the tank and letting it ride.
Dinner time so I'll update more later.
lol...think I should figure out how to breed these guys first right? Although...Harley's would already been in salt water and then I could just let nature take it's course. But...i would have to feed the chocolate chip stars and not sure I could do that.
Stopped the salt drip into the tank for the eve. Took a quick reading and the level is at 1.012 at the moment. Little ways to go and I will restart the drip tomorrow. Another thing I'm trying...I turned the light out instead of running 24 hrs. Main reason is that the tank next to it, the female hasn't hatched out her eggs yet. We'll see where it gets us tomorrow.
