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Re: APR (was Re: Oryzias latipes)

In a message dated 11/11/00 3:27:19 PM Eastern Standard Time, moylan at emi_net 
writes:

<< Subj:     Re: APR (was Re: Oryzias latipes)
 Date:  11/11/00 3:27:19 PM Eastern Standard Time
 From:  moylan at emi_net (Jay-Scott Moylan)
 Sender:    owner-killietalk at aka_org
 Reply-to:  killietalk at aka_org
 To:    killietalk at aka_org
 
         You asked Wright, but I'll sneak a quick two shiny pennies in here.  
I use 2 liter soda bottles for bbs. I find that waiting 10 minutes after I 
remove the air tube allows the nauplii to sink to the lower levels while 
shells float.  It helps if there is not a bright overhead light to attract 
the bbs to the surface.  I then use a siphon with a rigid tube on the end to 
reach down past the shells and siphon the bbs from the bottom.  If you allow 
a drop or two of water to drip from the siphon end onto the shells, surface 
tension forms a clear space you can dip the siphon through so the shells in 
the tube are minimized.  This works great for two feedings a day for me.  
Something else I did a few years ago was to use gallon iced tea jugs with 
spigots attached.  I know they sell them at Wal-Mart.  The shells floated, 
and then you just poured the shrimp and water out through the spigot from the 
bottom straight into the net.  These were harder to keep clean than I wanted 
to mess with then, and I didn't have an automatic dishwasher to help.  Also, 
It left too many bbs below the spigot level where they were just wasted.  I 
felt this was too expensive at the current prices, but that method sure was 
easy.  I even had a special cardboard cover I put over the jug so light only 
got in around the spigot area, attracting the bbs right where I wanted them.  
That also works for any other type of hatching bottle if you have trouble 
with the bbs swimming too near the shells.
 
 Jay Moylan
   ----- Original Message ----- 
   From: SRosendorf at aol_com 
   To: killietalk at aka_org 
   Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2000 1:38 PM
   Subject: Re: APR (was Re: Oryzias latipes)
 
 
   Dear Wright, 
   I appreciate the follow thru too.  Next problem: I used to hatch the eggs 
in 
   old i.v. bottles which don't exist anymore.  That was great for SF eggs 
   because the hulls floated and it was easy to drain off pure nauplii.  What 
do 
   you do and how do you sep out the hulls.  Ths Utah hulls sunk and were no 
   good for i.v. bottles. 
   Stan R >>
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