Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Join Aquarimax hosts Rus and Kelly as they discuss comments and questions from Mick in Carnforth, UK and Eliot in Sacramento, California.

If you have access through a library or academic institution, this article discusses how the diet of nematodes such as microworms can change the nutritional makeup of the worms:

C. Schlechtriem, M. Ricci, U. Focken and K. Becker The suitability of the free-living nematode Panagrellus redivivus as live food for first-feeding fish larvae Journal of Applied Ichthyology 20

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1439-0426.2004.00542.x/full

Here is Eliot in Sacramento, California’s 3-chambered sump, home to many red cherry shrimp:

Here, Eliot documents his success with the Dry Start Method in photos:

After two weeks of Dry Start Method: