slumpysix
09/20/2008, 01:17 PM
I have a well established 2L container of rots. I want to transfer them to lets say a 5 gal bucket as to increase the population. Should i make a starter culture of water and add the rots to that? or maybe create a few more 2L bottles of cultures and then put them together in one bucket? I have had great success in making my phyto and the rots have really developed in that time also. I just don't want to screw it up.
on a side note, I lost the last batch of fry due to some hungry fish I believe. I had put some pieces of tile in the tank and the percs didn't want nothin' to do with them. So last Tuesday, I noticed the little buggers tearing at the Xenia they host in. I mean just rippin' it away from what I thought would be a bad nesting site. So i moved the tile to that spot immediately and I kid you not, 10 minutes later, the female went right back to the original spot of the first eggs where the tile was and layed her eggs. So no eggs on the tile this time around but I have my tank, phyto and food ready to go.
Here's a pic of my phyto at 9 days
http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/117494phyto2.jpg
and here it is today, after I split the culture and started a new batch. Time to this point 13 days
http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/117494newphyto.jpg
on a side note, I lost the last batch of fry due to some hungry fish I believe. I had put some pieces of tile in the tank and the percs didn't want nothin' to do with them. So last Tuesday, I noticed the little buggers tearing at the Xenia they host in. I mean just rippin' it away from what I thought would be a bad nesting site. So i moved the tile to that spot immediately and I kid you not, 10 minutes later, the female went right back to the original spot of the first eggs where the tile was and layed her eggs. So no eggs on the tile this time around but I have my tank, phyto and food ready to go.
Here's a pic of my phyto at 9 days
http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/117494phyto2.jpg
and here it is today, after I split the culture and started a new batch. Time to this point 13 days
http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/117494newphyto.jpg