... Hi Harvey.... welcome to the group. ... Likely... do a search for artemia salina at google if you want to be sure... ... live algae , i assume. ... If the...
... well.. in a nutrient scarse enviroment... the young are likely not to survive... and will soon contribute their nutrient energy back to the enviroment....
hey harvey, welcome! good to hear from someone from the HK. i've been wanting to go back there for quite a while now. your sphere looks really good, but i'd...
... a working method i use is just put in a good amount and watch it go...most of them die before they get to 1/8" anyway, and even more die before 1/4"....
Hi there! I found out how long my ecosphere was to live... It lasted 31 days, died last weekend, and it ended with the death of the black snail. Actually I was...
... haha, my freshwater guppy tank crashed, and it's skunking right now. the bloodworms are lovin it though :) there's cotton moss in there though, and...
... the brown are diatoms, single celled algae. the whitish spore-looking things are cotton fungus i think...i've got that too. ... but you have to remember...
so i ended up with a 40g tank with 2 lizards, a newt, a frog and 2 bettas yesterday. and an empty 20g with equipment. we're gonna see how well i can do with...
... snail eats macroalgae and has excretia which in turn feeds micro/macro algae and detritis eaters. ... I tend to use dried yeast. bad procedure to pour from...
... large enough is where there is enough room for the animals to grow/reproduce with only the occasional sacrifice to the coral. ... ah... well you can take a...
Hi i am the new Guy. I am very interested in starting a biosphere can you tell me whut did you start out on. thanks ... Do you Yahoo!? Get better spam...
Hi Denny! a Good first step... read the archives. (they can be found at yahoogroups web site) My guess is that most of us started out with brine shrimp or in...
... no no, i pinched from a packet i had, but even one granule was a problem if i didn't break it up. i DID pour from it once...and ONLY once...the diatom...
... hrm...can you give a range for say...some of that branch coral i mentioned? or some other easy to maintain coral? ... thanks, i thought they were roots....
a bottle, salt water, brine shrimp eggs, and some sort of food. if your food can create oxygen you won't have to use larger algae. i used DT's Phytoplankton...
... do you still have daphnia? or eggs or something? i've been trying to avoid buying a culture for quite some time since i'd like some dry stock to fall...
... nope... sadly when i moved out of my last apt, i lost a 5 gallon glass water bottle and my daphnia. They were on the side of the house and were gone when...
I'm in Miami Florida, what do you need? ... ===== Melissa Dolinsky Wildlife Rehabilitator Miami, FL Wildlife Rescue of Dade County Marine Mammal Conservancy ...
(Somewhat off topic) ... You are too kind! I was half joking... The tadpole shrimp are supposed to be in "seasonal pools" around florida. if you knew where ...
I hate to tell you, but tromping around mud puddles and ditches is definitely my type of thing to do. I've certainly done stranger things...I know I'm not ...
Philly has broken the 60's... 65 the other day, im a cold weather person but i love having my sunroof open. The Hawiian Shrimp didn't do too well? I was...
Philly has broken the 60's... 65 the other day, im a cold weather person but i love having my sunroof open. The Hawiian Shrimp didn't do too well? I was...
... oh... if i weren't married... ;) ... havn't we all. ... I *asked* you not to tell me... that's it... I've had it... It's the comfy chair for the likes of...
... they are doing mostly fine, excepting my mishap with a portion of the culture (read my posts in the past week or so to find out more) The biggest problem...
I am only 20 minutes... but its the Jersey Shore... not much lives here. I mean its NJ. I love the state but the beach is horrible. I ve been taking scuba...
... man, triops are vicious. they'll even prey on each other when all other food sources are exhausted. i'm not even sure how they've survived this long on...
... hey, that's not far from me at all, maybe i'll order some. there's a lot of nature-oriented businesses running out of that area...and it's about the same...
... hey, if you're interested and got the time (and for me, money...broke college student here), we can meet up and do a search sometime. i'm not sure what's...
... is that the company rep? ... the price ain't bad, i'd be interested in a group buy. but why is it in detritus? i'd think if it's from a company they can...
... He's from TriopsUSA.... another company. I think he's the owner... really nice guy on the phone. ... shipping was more than from the triops alive folk in...