Tag: rotifer culture
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Rotifer Culturing at Home: Continous Cultures
Rotifer Culturing at Home: Continuous Culture Set-Up and Protocol Growing rotifers as a continuous culture is easy to do, but requires a small amount of work, almost every day. Unlike batch culturing, where the goal is to culture the most rotifers possible in sequential batches, the goal of continuous rotifer culturing is to create a…
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How to Culture Rotifers: Batch Culturing Protocol
Culturing rotifers at home is fairly easy to do. Rotifers are a great food source for newly hatched fish larvae and for some filter-feeding invertebrates. Ironically, the rotifer organism itself provides very little nutritional value to the animals that eat them. It is the content of their guts (the food they eat) that provides nutrition. As…
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Rotifer Batch Cultures
Rotifer Batch Cultures Culturing rotifers with a batch culture technique is akin to a manufacturing process. Instead of focusing on creating a stable environment to keep a relatively low-density culture thriving over a long period of time, the objective of a batch-produced culture is to maximize the yield of the culture over a short period…
