Help!! Need Live Rotifers for tomorrow!

there MAY still be a chance...this only happened a couple days ago right???

Here:
"Even if your culture does crash, if you are diligent and attentive, you can save it by quickly cleaning and feeding the culture - transferring even a couple of healthy females into the new culture is enough to start again. However, if you miss a crashed culture of for any prolonged period of time (i.e., more than a few days), it will often become an anoxic bacterial soup; these not only tend to smell horribly, but are often lifeless and cannot often be resurrected so easily. Carefully removing the sediment at the bottom of a crashed rotifer culture and transferring it to clean, good-quality water with adequate live phytoplankton food should cause the resting zygotes to hatch into new amictic females which can rapidly populate your cultures once again. If you fail at hatching the resting zygotes, then you will need to obtain a new starter batch of rotifers in order to get your culture going again."

I say if you can't get any, try this! but it will take just as long if not longer to get it healthy as it would getting some next week.......but worth a try???

Thank you very much Barbara! I will give it a shot cause you are right i can't gt a new shipment from Reeds until middle of next week. I will let you know how it works out. I have another batch hatching tonight and then on Sunday too.

love is the air eh?!

when you get a chance, share your experiences with us brian.....we may be able to help out in some way......and if not, we have a lot of geeks who just LOVE hearing about successes and learning new ways of doing things!

good luck!

FYI Brian:
my weak rotifers was NOT a result of the new phyto......but rather a lack of neglect
they have tripled in density in only 5 days once I started my daily maintenance again!
They'll be ready for 'ya by Tuesday if you still need some

Thanks for the rots and having Dana and I over! We really enjoyed spending time with you and we will put those maintenance routines into practice. Thanks again!!

no problem Brian!
It was fun having you two over! I look forward to the next time we get together!
..........now go beef up your culture!!!

so brian and dana....................how's your culture doing???

The culture is doing GREAT! It has multiplied and we now have 3 of the 5g buckets full of very dense rots. Thanks agins for all of you help. We are following your maintenance routine and all of our babies are very happy
Hopefully we can help you one day.

WOO HOO!!! now that's what I like to hear!!!
I'm just happy it's working for 'ya both...................and um...............I would greatly appreciate a few new breeding threads from you two - - when 'ya get the chance (HINT)

Bad news, rots crashed again. I think we over harvested them. Does anyone have some we could pick up ASAP? Thanks

Originally Posted by US Marine Coral

Bad news, rots crashed again. I think we over harvested them. Does anyone have some we could pick up ASAP? Thanks

I got you covered. You need to come see the onyx babies anyway and my new grow-out rack!

I'm off work at 6pm tonight but it is date night so as close to 6:30-7:00pm as possible would be good. Feel free to call/text.