> About a month ago while seining in Rochester NY I picked up a small,
barely
> two inch long crayfish carrying eggs. I put her in a livebearer trap with
> slits in the bottom in a spare 10 gallon tank hoping the little ones when
> hatched would escape into the tank. Three days ago I noticed the eggs were
> gone and the tank was crawling with minuscule crayfish. The plan was to
use
> them for live fish food but they're so cute.
That is basically the idea behind a refugium! Speaking of which, as I set my
150 swamp/freshwater reef tank. Every keep in me mind as you go collecting
because I am going to need some more inverts to make this tan work. Here is a
list to make your jobs easier ;-)
Aquatic earthworms
feather duster worms
clam shrimp (preferably the kind that are pests in rice paddies)
tadpole shrimp
fairy shrimp
giant cyclops
gammerus/amphipods (lots of them!)
isopods (lots of them too!)
tubifex worms
black worms
freshwater sponges
and anything else you come across that might help make my false ecology more
diverse!
Moon
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