Reefphyto Rotifer Culture Kit: Your Easy Solution to Cultivate Live Rotifers
Take full control of your reef feeding with the Reefphyto Rotifer Culture Kit — a simple, reliable way to cultivate live rotifers at home or in a professional setting. Designed for reef keepers, breeders, and labs alike, this kit allows you to produce a consistent supply of fresh, nutrient-rich live food that supports healthy fish larvae, corals, and filter feeders.
Rotifers are a cornerstone of marine nutrition. Their tiny size, constant motion, and exceptional digestibility make them one of the most important first foods in marine systems. By culturing your own, you remove reliance on availability, improve freshness, and ensure complete control over feeding quality.
Our kit has been carefully designed to remove the complexity often associated with live food cultures, no unnecessary equipment, no steep learning curve, just stable, repeatable results.
Why Culture Your Own Rotifers?
Live rotifers provide a highly bioavailable food source packed with proteins, lipids, and essential fatty acids. When cultured correctly, they reproduce rapidly and can be harvested continuously, making them both cost-effective and dependable.
Culturing rotifers also allows you to enrich them with phytoplankton or enrichment products before feeding, significantly improving their nutritional profile compared to frozen or bottled alternatives.
Kit Options Available
Choose the culture size that best fits your system and feeding demands:
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4 Litre Kit – Ideal for hobbyists, nano systems, and occasional feeding
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10 Litre Kit – Perfect for established reef tanks and regular harvesting
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20 Litre Kit – Designed for breeders, coral propagation, and heavy live-food use
Optional air pumps are available to create a complete, ready-to-run setup.
What’s Included
4 Litre Kit
10 Litre & 20 Litre Kits
All Kits Include
No heater required in most indoor environments — heating is only recommended for temperature-unstable locations.
If you need a rotifer sieve, then we have them available here on our website.
Simple Setup, Fast Results
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Add synthetic seawater
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Introduce the live rotifer starter culture
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Begin feeding using the included rotifer feed
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Follow our clear, beginner-friendly guide
Within 7–14 days, your culture will be established and ready for harvesting.
Benefits for Your Aquarium
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Perfect First Food – Ideal for marine fish larvae and fry
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Coral & Filter Feeder Support – Excellent for non-photosynthetic corals and invertebrates
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Continuous Live Food Supply – Harvest little and often for ongoing feeding
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Highly Digestible Nutrition – Promotes faster growth and improved survival rates
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Cost-Effective – Produce your own live food instead of buying repeatedly
Quality & Biosecurity
At Reefphyto, rotifers and copepods are cultured in separate facilities to minimise cross-contamination. While extremely rare, natural microfauna crossover can occasionally occur, a normal and harmless aspect of live cultures.
Culture container design, lid colour, and air pump model may vary depending on availability, without affecting performance.
Pro Tip
For maximum nutritional value, enrich your rotifers with live phytoplankton before feeding. This dramatically increases their fatty acid content and improves results when feeding fish larvae and corals.
