I have been a bit busy in the last few weeks and let my rotifer culture crash :( I tried to raise the cysts left in the bottom but no luck. Does anyone around the Alpharetta area have a culture? Ill throw a few frags your way. Thanks.

Get on the breeders forum and pm those guys. Should get you started back.

Yeah I pmed all the people close to me on there and I cant seem to find anyone currently with a culture.

Should get some productive replies by tomorrow night at least. If not check the macro forum in the where to buy thread on rc

Yeah thats not a bad idea. If I have to Ill go visit Dr. John but he lives outside of Athens and I just moved to Alpharetta! :doh:

Let me know how it goes. May need some in the furure myself

Will do. Anyone ever ordered from Brine Shrimp Direct? They have a few things I need so I might just buy a culture.

I'm up in Cumming and have a rotifer culture going. PM me and we'll set up a place to meet.

How much do you need?

Dr. John says, ask and you shall receive!
I can always supply a starter.
But, When mine crash.....
John

brine shrimp direct is where I got all that micro food and algae paste. good stuff

Hello from Alpharetta. I have rotifers and would be more than happy to share the wealth....I also have Iso and Tet algae if you need any.

Will
So the rotifers are doing well?
The Iso is doing great.
Thanks
John

Yep, they're doing great now. I was a bit worried at first. You said that what you gave me was nice and dense so (without inspecting it) I dumped it in with 4 liters of tank water and 4 liters of Tet (My tet is not doing so hot right now, it was probably more like 1 liter of a healthy clutures' worth). The next morining, when I checked on it I was surprized to see that they had not eaten all of the algae yet so I took a closer look and the density was REALLY low. I was quite worried that I diluted it too much and it would not take off.

But they have been growing like mad. They are already up to ~ 25/ml. With any luck my pajama eggs will not hatch untill tomorow night. If they hatch tonight, I don't know if I will have enough...

I had a photo session with your rotifers last night....
http://www.marinebreeder.org/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=258&t=5527#p51562

Hmm.
They were fairly thick when I sieved them. Not super dense but around 10/ml. Wonder if the time without aeration didn't do some damage. That was a long trip around Atlanta that night, about 5 hours by the time I got to you.
But, all is is well that ends well! Good to see that they are doing well.
Follow Witt's suggestions to reduce their size before feeding them to the PJ's.
John