Culturing one's own Copepods

[jwsmith]

http://gerrymarten.org/publicatons/pdfs ... uction.pdf

[billbillt]

Thanks for this!... Looks like something simple enough for me...

[Dennis]

One of the grandest is the adult female cyclops with egg sacks. One of my goals is to get a great pic of one.

-Dennis

[billbillt]

I would certainly like to see that if you are fortunate enough to catch one in that condition.....

[Dennis]

BillBilt-

https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=55153FC6 ... 7!1577&v=3

Fist thing in the movie. And a baby being attacked almost by a Water Flea is at "scene two."
At about 6:26 is scene three a short view back at a Mommy Cyclops.

-Dennis

[billbillt]

Hi Dennis,
I enjoyed this.. Very sharp and clear... Is this the eggs?... I guess I have never caught one in this condition..

[Dennis]

BillBilt, the black things are egg sacks.

That article above says to scoop fast because Copepods are fast.

I just went to the Lake today, so I'll see if I get some more.

-Dennis

[billbillt]

That would be great to see..

[zzffnn]

Very interesting! Thank you for sharing.

[charlie g]

Thank you jwsmith! A sort of walk down memory lane to visit the link you share. Very practicle reasons this source and 'cook book' was compiled for. When West Nile virus first 'hit NY/Nj' we had die off of all sorts of crows,and jays...and we had mosquito control projects. In NJ there was an effort to place/ to stock 'little guppies' (Gambusia species) in all sorts ob water bodies...to control mosquitoes. It's odd to me that this 'Copepod strategy' did not surface in NY/NJ for mosquito control.

And now that West Nile virus is 'endemic' to all con-US...I still think of your link. The near permanent puddles in vast stretches of NYC subway tunnels...are there copepods there as well?

Of course my doggies and I hike about for microscopy water sample collection...so it was good to read our 'fast scoop method' is there in papers.

Very low cost online one can purchase: "Culture Methods for Invertebrate Animals", Lutz, Welch,Galtsoff, and Needham, 1937. I really enjoy your link, thank you jwsmith. charlie guevara