Daphnia Culturing - Live Fish Food Magna / Pulex Breeding Daphnia, Daphnia Magna Culture,

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Daphnia culturing and raising your own live food is one of the best things you can do for your fish, and Daphnia (also called water fleas) are some of the most nutritious and easy live food to DIY. Cory uses a 360 gallon tub outside, a 100 gallon tub, and a 55 gallon tank. The largest tub is the best producing by far, and can feed Cory’s entire fish store once a week. The Daphnia are fed yeast mixed up with an immersion blender. Snails, algae and duckweed will likely find their way into your daphnia pond. Daphnia tanks outside will end up with mosquito larvae and/or cyclops, which can either be good or bad. Some tips for how to culture daphnia: You do not need green water as a hard and fast rule, while it helps, you will have to feed your daphnia anyways. Just like any other aquarium, be sure to maintain good water quality Daphnia Magna and Daphnia Pulex are raised the same way Daphnia take 7 days to reach sexual maturity, and have about 10 babies. You can go from 10 to 10,000 daphnia in a single month! Because of this explosive population, they tend to boom and bust (crash.) That’s why many people keep multiple cultures going at once Having a large volume of water and a lot of surface area will really help. Some people don’t recommend aeration, but it has been beneficial to Cory’s Daphnia yields. A never-clog air stone seems to produce bubbles of just the right size. Daphnia molt a lot, so keeping lots of calcium in the water will make a difference. Wonder Shells and crushed coral are both easy and inexpensive additives. Starting with aged water, and only using it for water changes and top-offs will be extremely helpful. To harvest your live fish food culture all you do is take a brine shrimp net and slowly move it through the pond (big/fast motions will stir up gunk from the bottom.) If you found this video useful please like and share, and don’t forget to subscribe to our channel for more fish keeping information.

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How quickly do they reproduce? I have to do a science project (for biology at school) at some point. I want to do mine on daphnia, seeing how they reproduce in different environments.

that sound quality!! so cool to see how far you've come. you deserve it! hope much bigger things headed you way. keep up the amazing work

Hi Corey, I have a setup I'm building where I'll have a guppy tank sharing circulation with a small open bin pond (pond is like 5-10 gallons and a 20 gallon glass tank), and a home made filter. I was thinking the little pond could maybe house a daphnia colony, there would be a bit (not a lot) of flow in the pond. Do you think this is viable? what about having a daphnia colony with a betta? Do you think this will just result in him eating till he dies or all the daphnia are gone?

What kind of shrimp was that and why is it in there?

Hello,
Has anyone tried fishmeal as daphnia food? I have seen a number of videos including this one. One inconsistency I always find is about how fast they reproduce. Just two days ago I have set up a tank with capacity of 160 liters. I put a cup of ground fishmeal and a little starter culture of red daphnia. Within 48 hours it is like a billion baby dahphia in my tank already, very dense. Is it not way too many daphnias than what is usually told in these videos?

Please check out for me if the video I took is of daphnia? https://youtu.be/KAyfW0pOB6E I have a concrete pond outside that rain water has filled and been sitting there for the last few months, I added some water lettuce and they have bloomed and I noticed thousands of these little specks darting around They must have come in with the water lettuce I took from my pond.

this is the perfect video with good tips and accurate information !!! very good !

Are you on the west coast and do you ship?

Great videos!

I hope that you make a new video on this topic. :)
No offense but you're videos today have a much better quality than this one. Haha.
I've watched a few Daphnia culture vids but this one has got to be the biggest container I have seen used.
Anyways, thanks for the videos!

old video i know but one of the better ones... just wondering, if you have a container outside how do daphnia get into that container to start with? can find them almost anywhere in the "wild" so to speak, but if you have an open container thats not linked to a water source, how would they get there as the life cycle unlike mosquitos doesnt have a flight path.

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I'm guessing most stay near the top because that's where most of the phytoplankton/algae is growing.

any filtration on the daphnia pond or just air and duckweed ?

is this pulex mix with magna?? u willing to sell me a starter culturer?

im soo confused sir where can i find daphnia do i have to buy it from the pet shops??

Do you have any idea how to quarantine wild daphnia? I have a growing Creek Chub I'd like to keep, and feeding it Daphnia seems like a good idea for just a 1-1.5 inch Chub. Also, I did catch in the wild, thinking it was just a regular minnow, which is why I would like to feed it daphnia.

Did you have heater? My water in the basement without heater is 17c. Do i need heater?

First of all, congrats on a great video. Cyplops eat either the juvinile daphnia or the molted cases with the eggs inside them. Compete and eat is their motto. That's why you have less! I lived in Ireland and I could find Daphnia in a local pond. Here in Canada, it took a while to find some. I have a few goldfish in green water and I made a little round tank beside it, and a few inches higher and airlifted fish water into it in a failed attempt to settle out solids. BUT it was a total success at clearing the green water, the overflow or return (at maybe 1 or 2 liters of water per minute) sends excess daphnia back to my fish. The neat thing is that the daphnia is both the filter and the fish food. The splashing of the airlifted water means that the mosquito larvae cannot detect the outflow and they get sucked down to be eaten by fish too. Maybe this can work in one of your systems too. Neat that you have all these together. I have some little shrimp too but they did not last in the system linked to the fish, maybe they got curious and went through the outlet. I still have some in another pond in the greenhouse. Thanks again for your video. Very helpful. Brian

how to u prevent mosquito larva?