EMERGENCY HELP!

[lilalancarey]

okay so i bought 3 cuttle eggs wednesday. 2 hatched thursday at 12 am and 4 am and one hatched friday morning at 3 am.

i ordered my live rotifers and mysids on wednesday figuring they would be shipped thursday and i would recieve them on friday and try feeding them 1 mysid and see if any go for it. and do that everyday til they eat....

THEY NEVER CAME THEY WERE NEVER SHIPPED

so i have to wait until the weekend is over until i can get them

i started a BBS culture last night and some eggs have hatched, can i use these until my rot/mysids come in the mail? or should i drive for an hour both ways to pick up some live rotifers/phytoplankton from a man i know from www.Manhattanreefs.com who said he will help me out.

Anyone have any success whatsoever with BBS?

this only needs to work for 2-3 days =/

if it will not work i will take the long expensive toll/gas drive down there. since i <3 my cuttles.

any and all help will be appreciated

(yes i have read the stickies and pretty much the first 20 pages of this forum in the past but not looking for bbs information.) since i notice everyone posts the stickies before anything =] lol i read them about 100 times each haha <3 cuttles.

[DWhatley]

Unfortunately, I am not a cuttle keeper but do read all the threads (and likely one of the few people on at this hour). Fortunately, I have read that cuttles often don't eat the first week. As you suspect bb's are not recommended food. There is some conjecture that they might help stimulate a feeding response but the luck with them has been slim to none.

Here is a link to a discussion (http://www.tonmo.com/forums/showthread.php?19756-5-Cuttle-eggs-coming-tomorrow/page2)about a similar situation. If you will look at the sticky at the top of the Journals and Photo forum there is a List of our Cuttlefishes post. It contains links to the histories of many of the cuttles raised from eggs and most discuss first feeding.

[Thales]

I am not sure what you want the bbs/rots for - feeding the mysis?

You should/might bo ok for 2-3 days. As D said, they often don't eat for that amount of time anyway. No reason to drive for rots/phyto because they are not cuttle food. :D

Try the bbs and let us know what happens. I suspect you won't get a feeding response because they are too small, but weird things happen.

[lilalancarey]

oh i thought baby cuttles sometimes fed on rots, oops, after all the reading ive done i stil screw that up lol, i should have ordered amphipods instead =/ thanks for the fast responses guyys.


Thales, but after the weekends over and by the time i actually get my mysids it will be like 5-6 days no feeding post hatch.

i guess ill try the BBS a few times daily and see if i get a response.

[MAKOOKAM]

If you can find tigger pods those will work in the mean time. Expensive, though.

[lilalancarey]

yeah i asked my lfs to order them for me they said they wouldnt come in til tuesday.... no where within a 45 min drive has tigger pods in my area. still trying the BBS though. wish em luck =/

[snowmaker]

Do you run a sump? Have any chaeto in it?
I was able to harvest very small amphipods by swishing chaeto around in a bucket with 5"or so of tank water. The baby cuttlefish would eat the smallest of them (not the 1/2" adult amphipods, but the babies) at just 4 days old.
I am willing to bet these are more nutritious than mysids just due to their slightly higher mass... although I have absolutely no proof of that.