Some dry cow patties powdered up and wet thoughouly. And crushed egg shell works great. I use containers of water outside for mosquitos too. Their larvae is good free food.

Thanks for the great info!

Thanks for the tips

Nice vid Mike

Interesting! May try my hand at a much smaller scale setup. I can usually collect a bunch of daphnia at local pond as a starter culture. Unsure about green water culture. 🤔 Thanks for sharing.

What are your day, night air temperatures? What aspect ie nth south east west side of the house do you have the tubes

Did you culture for only free floating Alge in your starter? I only ask because when I selected for only the free floating Alge I never got any hairy Alge ever.

What do you do when it rains?

Hi, why not put organizer fertilizer in the daphnia culture to have green water there

They say daphnia is easy to breed, but was not so for me. I bought a culture and they died within a week. I kept them in a big bowl without air pump, and fed them regularly. I don't know is it the lack of air pump that killed them

What climate do you live in, are the cultures & green water in direct sun, and do the daphnia survive over the winter? Thank you!! :)

@michaelecht2216

5 ай бұрын

Growing Zone 7b. The daphnia barely produce anything second half of december until late February when you have some warm weeks. But they will survive (or at least their eggs do). In summer, it gets so hot that I keep them shaded.

@jeffnekuza3679

3 ай бұрын

I'm in Texas and they slow down during the winter otherwise the are booming. I feed Bakers yeast though

What do you mean algae grow along the filament one, you need to start a new culture? Sorry, I didn’t quite understand what you meant there. Thank you for the education on daphnia.

@michaelecht2216

5 ай бұрын

If you get the long thread like algae, you want to start over. It interferes with their ability to swim easily. If you get it you will know....if not, no need to worry!

Hi, any other type of organic fertilizer would work?

@michaelecht2216

5 ай бұрын

I'm not sure, I've been using this one. I have tried manure before....what a mess!

@Sinserg

5 ай бұрын

@@michaelecht2216 Got it thanks :)

where did u get daphnia?

@ernestyeap3053

3 ай бұрын

You can buy a culture online. But it's not as easy as what they say. Mine died in just a week

@chadtitan4159

2 ай бұрын

Amazon has live Daphnia for 13 bucks from Carolina supply.

where do you get your 'starter' daphnia? A pond, river your gutter? where do you get them? Stores don't sell daphnia eggs.

@donaldlyons17

4 ай бұрын

Really have you searched online?

@davelane9366

3 ай бұрын

I just bought a bag of live daphnia from a fish shop.

mmmm what about temperature ? Need heater ?