What is most likely to be swimming on your front glass panel after lights out, is mysid shrimp, that look like minature cleaner shrimp, very tiny, and very nutritious for those that can catch them. (larger ones range from 1/8 to 1/4 inch)
Most of the other small life will stay in the rockwork even at night like the mysids do in the day time.
You can make your own hatchery that works as good or better than the ones you pay for just by using pop bottles, or you may call them soda bottles. Ours are 2 litre bottles so I'm not sure what your sizes will be but just cut the bottom off a bottle, invert it, and sit it in the bottom of another bottle that has been cut off just enough so the bottle cap of the inverted bottle just touches the inside bottom of the second so that it has some stability.
Then, connect a piece of rigid air line tubing to a length of flexible air line and connect to the air pump.
Some people make a little stand out of wood with holes for several bottles so they can keep a daily feeding of freshly hatched nauplii for feeding.
Conversly you can use multiple pop bottles like I described, and place them next to one another using plastic close line pins to connect them together.
I sit my bottles in a styrofoam container because I use so many.
Here is a pic of the bottles removed from the styrofoam with 3 pop bottles (soda bottles) on the right side of the pic and empty ones standing against the wall behind. The second picture shows the rigid air line tubing connected to the flex air line and inserted into the inverted pop bottles.
Most of the other small life will stay in the rockwork even at night like the mysids do in the day time.
You can make your own hatchery that works as good or better than the ones you pay for just by using pop bottles, or you may call them soda bottles. Ours are 2 litre bottles so I'm not sure what your sizes will be but just cut the bottom off a bottle, invert it, and sit it in the bottom of another bottle that has been cut off just enough so the bottle cap of the inverted bottle just touches the inside bottom of the second so that it has some stability.
Then, connect a piece of rigid air line tubing to a length of flexible air line and connect to the air pump.
Some people make a little stand out of wood with holes for several bottles so they can keep a daily feeding of freshly hatched nauplii for feeding.
Conversly you can use multiple pop bottles like I described, and place them next to one another using plastic close line pins to connect them together.
I sit my bottles in a styrofoam container because I use so many.
Here is a pic of the bottles removed from the styrofoam with 3 pop bottles (soda bottles) on the right side of the pic and empty ones standing against the wall behind. The second picture shows the rigid air line tubing connected to the flex air line and inserted into the inverted pop bottles.
