Specialty Products
Live Marine Rotifers
These “L-Strain” Brachionus plicatilis and have been grown in our Instant Algae Continuous Rotifer System. They are then concentrated and packaged into "breathable" bags.
Rotifers are small (100-300 micron) zooplankton that exist in freshwater, brackish, and marine environments. Rotifers feed on microalgae and are consumed by a wide variety of fish, shellfish, corals, and other filter feeding organism. Rotifers are used extensively in aquaculture and aquariums because of their super high reproductive rates (doubling or better every 24 hours), ease of culturing, optimal size for larval fish, and nutritional profile. Under optimal conditions a rotifer culture will double in volume every day. The life span of a marine rotifer is 7 to 12 days. They have very high metabolisms and empty their guts and need to eat every 4 hours.
The rotifers that Reed Mariculture supplies are the species Brachionus plicatilis (also referred to as the "L" Type) and are a marine species.
Rotifer Diet®
Rotifer Diet® is a super concentrated microalgae formulated for feeding cultures of zooplankton (rotifers, copepods, daphnia, artemia), filter feeders (shellfish, corals), and other micro feeders.
Contains: Nannochlopsis (1-2 microns in size)
cell count: ~18 billion cells per ML
Directions:
Add enough Rotifer Diet to maintain a light green color (light lime green) between feedings. Typically this will be 2 - 3 ml's of Rotifer Diet daily per million rotifers. Keep refrigerated at all times. Do not blend.
Rotifer Starter Kits
The Basic Rotifer Starter Kit includes a culture of rotifers and enough food to grow them for 2 months.
The Deluxe Rotifer Starter Kit includes a culture of rotifers, enough food to grow them for 2 months, Rotifer Floss for cleaning detritus, and a copy of Frank Hoff's definitive Plankton Culture Manual.
Rotifer Floss (Filter)
Rotifer Floss is a new innovation for cleaning detritus and ciliates out of rotifer systems. Keeping the water and tank clean from detritus (rotifer waste) is critically important in maintaining healthy, stable cultures - especially in high density systems.
How It Works
Detritus contains high levels of bacteria which are sticky. Rotifer Floss is a loose weave filter that allows water to easily pass through it, but has a high surface area which the detritus sticks to.
Cleaning the Filter
When the floss is full of detritus simply lift the filter out of the rotifer tank, lets it drain for 10 seconds over the tank, then wash it down with a garden or pressure hose or in a sink. The detritus easily falls off the filter under pressure and it can immediately be put back into the rotifer system. It should take less than 1 minute for the entire process.
If you have a small rotifer system (1 to 20 gallons) we recommend stirring the water up prior to putting the filter back in. This will lift detritus off the bottom of the tank and back into the water column where the filter will remove it. Once the water is well stirred and moving, put the filter back in.
How often should the filter be cleaned?
We recommend cleaning the filter daily. A regularly cleaned filter will remove the maximum about of detritus. There is no downside to cleaning it often.
Live Mysid Shrimp
- Aquacultured for feeding seahorses, young cephalopods, pipefish, and other finicky eaters
- Always available
- Disease Free
- Grown in a laboratory, in a closed recirculating system with UV sterilization. Reef Nutrition® is proud to offer live products that you can use to feed your reef animals or to stock your tank or refugium.
Please contact us for pricing.
Mysid shrimp are a difficult product to ship. If you would like to purchase them, please contact us directly and we’ll set up the order for you.
Artemia - Brine Shrimp Eggs
Not all GSL artemia are the same quality. What one company may label as 90% may be equivalent to another company's 85%. The true measure of quality is the nauplii per gram (NPG) count and not simply a hatch rate designation.
Our GSL Artemia 90% have an NPG count of 250,000 - the average for 90% GSL from other companies is 245,000. These are among the highest quality available anywhere. These GSL cysts are over-wintered, washed, dried, and tested under strict guidelines before categorizing into the different hatch rate categories. Average nauplii size at hatching is 440 microns. Store in cool dry place (~4C)
Guaranteed Analysis: Protein - 60%, Fat - 24%, Ash - 4.4%, Moisture - 8.5%
The cans are 16 oz/454 grams each.
ClorAm-X®
ClorAm-X® is a unique, dry powder, water conditioner that has been scientifically formulated to remove, and thereby detoxify, ammonia, chlorine and chloramines from water for use in all types of fish and aquatic invertebrate culture.
ClorAm-X® should be used (1) when conditioning new water for aquariums, tanks, ponds, and live-haul containers, (2) after or during water additions, (3) before adding new plants, invertebrates, fishes or amphibians to an existing aquarium, tank, or pond, and (4) to live-haul containers, during transportation of live fishes, amphibians, or aquatic invertebrates, to control and eliminate ammonia in the shipping water.
Books
Giant Clams in the Sea and the Aquarium
James Fatherree has brought together the most up-to-date information on the biology and care of tridacnid clams for the hobbyist available. Using his distinctive, conversational and light-hearted writing style, James has written a book for every hobbyist, be they absolute beginners or seasoned veterans.
Giant Clams in the Sea and the Aquarium provides comprehensive coverage of the biology and aquarium care of the unique and intriguing tridacnid clams, commonly called giants by aquarists and divers around the world. The book is an 8" x 9" hardback, printed on high-quality gloss paper, and includes over 300 color photographs and illustrations.
Plankton Culture Manual
By Frank Hoff & T. Snell. Published by Florida Aqua Farms. This expanded version includes identification of microalgae used in aquaculture manual. Manual now includes use of microscope, slide preparation, measuring cells, stains, key to genera, description of cells variations, contaminants in cultures and photos. Provides updated step by step instructions for culturing phytoplankton (microalgae) and zooplankton including rotifers, adult brine shrimp, ciliates, copepods, daphnia, Oyster and clams veligers, amphipods, mysid shrimp and microworms.
Easy to read but very informative with technical data and illustrations to support instructions in a clear understandable format. Sections include trouble shooting and reasons for failure. Includes simple culture methods and more intensive, large scale methods and designs. Extensive references, 8.5" x 11" format, 160 pages, 47 illustrations, 21 tables.