Subject: Re: RE: RE: NANFA-L-- crappie feeding
dlmcneely-in-lunet.edu
Date: Wed Dec 15 2004 - 11:05:07 CST
The critters you have are copepods. Like Daphnia, they are crustaceans, but in their own class. Any good zoology book or field guide to freshwater biology will have descriptions and illustrations. The little balls are egg masses.
Dave
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Rose, Patrick PO" <PWRose-in-C2Cen.uscg.mil>
Date: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 6:45 am
Subject: RE: RE: NANFA-L-- crappie feeding
> No, there are no spots on them-in-all, they were completely clear
> until I
> noticed the stripes on the one.
>
> Also I am a little confused on the rotifer thing now. After
> writing the last
> email I went looking for more info on raising them. The little
> guys I got
> were very very tiny but I could see them with my naked eye, they
> were half
> the size of daphnia or smaller, and for lack of a better way of
> putting it
> they looked like the male genitals. 8- <-- sort of like that but
> with a
> bigger body than little balls-in-the back. This is what I always
> thoughtrotifers were. I have used them (well these guys that I'm
> talking about)
> before. But now I am questioning if they are rotifers after doing more
> looking. I got these guys out of a canal like I said before, right
> aroundthe edge where there was some algae over growing some rocks
> and mud.
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