Raising peppermint babies

[GotKalk]

I am taking my second swing at rearing peppermint shrimp babies. They are 6 days old now and still going strong…no noticeable die off yet. I am feeding newly hatched BSB along with some 12 hour old BSB gut loaded with Selcon.

Any suggestions or information anyone ? I did find a paper on raising PS babies from an university in TX but cannot find it again to save my life.

Rick

 

[Anonymous]

I've tried and tried. I always have a massive die-off around the 6 - 8 week point. I'm missing a trace element or something that I just can't figure out.

Out of 4 tries and over 1000 larve I have a total of 2 peppermints that made it to adulthood.

 

[liquid]

You could check with "suckair" on #reefs chat channel. He's working on it right now too... You may also want to check out the Breeders Registry on the net:http://breeders-registry.gen.ca.us/cgi-bin/swishsearch.pl?peppermint+shrimp

liquid

[ August 06, 2001: Message edited by: LiquidShaneo ]

 

[jamesw]

Gotkalk: The report you are looking is from the UT, at Corpus Christi. I believe it's by Dr. Joan Holt. I met her last year and talked about this at the Texas Aquaculture Association meeting.

That should give you some info to zero in on it.

Cheers
James