>Sure, Adrian it is possible to culture Cladocerans.
>
>What. How? Oh sorry. I'm sure this is a plot to get me to write something? OK
Well I cant seem to get you to write anything any other way ;-)
>My second point is that maintaining a long term, pure culture of Cladocerans
>is VERY difficult and TIME CONSUMING. Cladocerans eat single celled algae
>and bacteria (phytoplankton). To successfully grow Cladocerans first you
>need to become good at growing phytoplankton (or algae cultures). And I have
>several long papers on this!
Good! send me a copy and I'll do a "Readers Digest" version or better
still... if you have a spare moment ;-)
>You should strain the undesirable beasties off and
>feed them to your coal grunter (What do you mean you don't have a coal
>grunter?
They're Food fish ain't they???
>How do you get rid of your excess fish?).
My fish house Pussy! (and stop sniggering Barry!)
>Good luck, you'll need it.
I'm sure with your good advice we'll all soon be culturing dem darn Cladocerans!
Mr.T
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Adrian R. Tappin
Home of the Rainbowfish
http://www.ecn.net.au/~atappin/home.htm
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