Recommended Article 9 - Freshwater Rotifers

• This article gives some brief explanation about type of freshwater rotifers.
• Rotifers have been divided into four categories which relate to their appearance and habitat preferences rather than to their taxonomic classification.
  
  
  • Bdelloid Rotifers - Common in ponds and on mosses, are soft-bodied, and have leech-like movements.
  • Loricate Rotifers - Those having a characteristic hardened or semi-hardened body shell.
  • Planktonic Rotifers - Normally found in the open surface waters of a pond or stream.
  • Sessile Rotifers - Found attatched to submerged plants and rootlets in ponds and streams.
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Recommended Product 3 - Rotifer Starter Kit - Basic

• Rotifers are small (100-300 micron) zooplankton that exist in freshwater, brackish, and marine environments.
  
• Rotifers feed on microalgae and are consumed by a wide variety of fish, shellfish, corals, and other filter feeding organism.
• Rotifers are used extensively in aquaculture and aquariums because of their super high reproductive rates (doubling or better every 24 hours).
• Under optimal conditions a rotifer culture will double in volume every day.
• The life span of a marine rotifer is 7 to 12 days.
  
• They have very high metabolisms and empty their guts and need to eat every 4 hours.

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Recommended Article 7 - Culturing Rotifers in Small Systems (Home or Lab)

• This article proves that rotifers are very easy to culture at home.
• Rotifers feed best on microalgae, typically in the 1 to 10 micron range.
  
• The most commonly used algae is called Nannochloropsis.
• Other commonly used algae are Isochrysis and Pavlova.

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Recommended Article 5 - Biology and ecology of Artemia

• Nauplii of the brine shrimp artemia constitute the most widely used food item.
• Over 2000 metric tons of dry artemia cysts are marketed worldwide for on-site hatching into 0.4 mm nauplii.
  
• Those cysts are available year-round in large quantities along the shorelines of hypersaline lakes, coastal lagoons and solar saltworks scattered over the five continents.
• After harvesting and processing, cysts are made available in cans as storable ‘on demand’ live feed.
  
• Upon some 24-h incubation in seawater, these cysts release free-swimming nauplii that can directly be fed as a nutritious live food source to the larvae of a variety of marine as well as freshwater organisms.
• Its use as a food for the culture of larval organisms began in the 1930’s.
• During the 1940’s, most commercially available brine shrimp cysts represented collections from natural saline lakes and coastal saltworks.
  
• Early pioneers exploited in 1951 the cyst production of Artemia at the Great Salt Lake in Utah, USA.
  

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