Mysid Shrimp Culture

Hi everyone! Wondering if anyone has had any success culturing a mysid shrimp culture in a refugium or sump... I have been doing a little reading into it and it seems very possible but i thought i would ask instead of reading other peoples threads. I am hopefully going to be trying this soon in a 10 gallon nano reef with a mini in tank refugium(mainly for feeding purposes although i heard they can help clean well too) ... Any suggestions or ideas would be great...

 

The link below should be of some assist. It's a wealth of information on breeding inverts and fish.


Marine Ornamental Fish & Invert Breeders Association • Index page

 

Each of my systems have mysid cultures growing throughout the system including the display tanks.
I used to culture them separately using a mysid generator (MBL Aquaculture design) and a bunch of ten gallon tanks to keep separate the different sizes to control cannibalism.
After a couple of years I packed it in because the work involved was just too much.

 

Do you do anything special to culture them in your systems?

 

I've had good luck with just a refugium. Got chaeto from reefcleaners that was packed with them. put chaeto in fuge, fed a pellet every now and then, now I have TONS of mysid and pods of all sorts. Just give them a safe place to hide and eat from predators and they'll breed.

 

Nope! As long as you don't start with a sterile system you should automatically get mysids from live rock and from corals with skeletons on them. Same with pod life forms.
Put a red lens on a powerful flash light and look around the bottom of the rocks, between them and the bottom of the tank and you should see what looks like miniature cleaner shrimp cavorting around. That would be mysids.
They will multiply to a point that is sustaining considering the food supply and space available.
You can take a sponge that is weighed down so it rests on the bottom for a few days, and then remove it to a container of salt water and "harvest" the mysids that you transfer via the sponge. (you will get a lot of pod forms as well but they can easily be separated from the mysids)
Mysids you remove can then be used in a separate set up for culturing at a more higher density than can be done in a refugium or sump.

 

Wow awesome thanks for the replies sounds like its pretty easy!!! I'm gonna try it out pretty soon here!! I'll let you guys know how mine works out!!