Plankton Culture Manual

by Terry W. Snell and Frank H. Hoff

"Manual for culturing live food items for aquarists aquaculture students, businesses, and researchers. Includes microalgre, rotifers, artemia, dophila, cloms, amphipods, etc."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0966296001
• ISBN13: 9780966296006
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Florida Aqua Farms Inc
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great resource for phytoplankton and zooplankton culturing

Great resource for everything related to culturing live food for the aquaria hobbiest and for aquaculture. The only bad thing I have to say about it is that it gives you more info than you need as a reef keeping hobbiest when trying to deduce the best practice for culturing methods. Written by the people at Florida Aqua Farms (lots of supplies for this on their web site). To give you an idea what it covers here's the main chapters with my comments: 1 - Aquatic food webs Basic stuff 2 - Utilization of plankton How to use it as live food 3 - Microalgae id Microscope use 4 - Microalgae culture How to grow phytoplankton, how to measure density, how to avoid contamination, equipment, how to isolate - the main part of the book I think. Then the zooplanktons 5 - Rotifer culture 6 - Ciliate culture 7 - Artemia culture 8 - Copepod culture 9 - Daogbua culture 10 - Clam and Oyster veligers 11 - Amphipod culture 12 - Mysid culture 13 - Micro worm culture ... then some tables etc.

A very informative guide

This book was very informative and well written with a multitude of graphs, analysis breakdowns, and general information that even a beginner can easily understand. I highly recommend it.