Culture Continuation Report Form

GENERAL
Name:	Eric Osar ( Caesra ) Site: Marine Breeding Initiative (MBI)
	Brachionus plicatilis ( Class: FC1 , Points: 5 )
Establishment Date:	06/29/2011
Continuation Date:	10/06/2011
Culture Source: (link if possible)	Reed's Mariculture
Link to Journal:	http://www.mbisite.org/Forums/tm.aspx?high=&m=55418&mpage=1#59914

Culturing Vessel Details
Temperature:	75 ° F
pH:	unknown
Specific Gravity:	1.020
>Vessel Description:	2.5g buckets
Lighting:	PC
Lighting Schedule:	10/14 ambient light

Methodologies
Feeding Tactics/Medium:	1 ml/day Rotigrow+ 2x a day, 1 ml cloram-x 2x a day
Split Cycle:	none
Split Yield:	none
Number of Cultures:	3
Number of Splits:<	n/a
Density:	10/ml+
Harvest Methodology:	25% per day, inconsistent sometimes 25% 2x a day, sometimes every other day
Adjustments Made:	slowed bubble count low. Found it seems to work better in smaller culture vessels. in 5g bucket I tried it worked better to have a faster count, but I am using smaller and find a low bubble count to be much more forgiving.

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fishtal
9/3/2011 4:09:15 PM

You need to get to 90 days to submit a continuation report. You can leave this report up and change the date when it passes but we can't approve it at this time.

caesra
9/30/11
12:8:54 PM

Just updating this, as the 90 days has passed. Culture still running fine.

JimWelsh
9/30/2011 8:24:37 PM

Eric, Please correct the continuation date in the report, and also, can you please post some pictures of the culture(s) as of the continuation date, or shortly thereafter?

caesra
10/6/11
12:15:47 AM

pics and vid added..date corrected.

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