New sub, thank you for this video. It's the most helpful one on daphnia that I've watched, and there have been quite a few!

@Aquarimax

5 жыл бұрын

Alyxandra Ramsey Thank you, I am glad it is helpful! 😊👍

I was at the garden store today and saw they had buckets with water lilies for sale - one bucket in particular caught my eye as it had a massive daphnia population. I bought the lily so I could get my hands on those excellent daphnia! I'm going to try culturing in a number of containers to try to avoid crashes.

@Aquarimax

4 жыл бұрын

fossphur Awesome find! Great idea to keep in multiple containers. Good luck! 👍

@pinoylakasradiostreaming5316

Жыл бұрын

What's the name of the store you saw the daphnia? Thank you

@fossphur

Жыл бұрын

@@pinoylakasradiostreaming5316 it was just the local garden store in my town, not a big box or chain store. They usually just have flowers, trees, herbs, ferns, veg, and very rarely some pond or aquatic plants depending on availability from their supplier.

Bruh... Had this video cast to the TV & was on the hunt for that damn cricket lurking by your recording equipment...

Ive watched loads of different live food guides and yours are by far the best. No nonsense just easy to digest direct and simple instructions brill.

Thank you for this. Best tutorial on how to raise daphnia that I've seen. Looking forward to sharing my success!

Love the idea of flour and spiralina. Yeast is a variable live organism; great information.

Fabulous Live food to culture and another Fabulous Aquarimax video!!

@Aquarimax

6 жыл бұрын

colinbarsby 😁👍 Thank you Colin, music to my ears!

thank you very much for sharing this video. it's a big help for my fish!!

@Aquarimax

5 жыл бұрын

herbman herbman you are very welcome! I am glad you find it helpful!

I’ve watched your videos over and over again. And honestly thanks to your information my daphnia are B O O M I N G

@Aquarimax

3 жыл бұрын

Curtis Dunnigan Excellent! That is just what I like to hear 👍🏽

@ferdianbettafish3659

3 жыл бұрын

Have you tried using 2×1pond with chicken poop or quail poop? You can harvest over 100ml a day:) Really looking forward to make myself a 3×1m pond

@Aquarimax

3 жыл бұрын

Ferdian Betta fish you can harvest huge amounts from a pond. I want to try that someday.

@ferdianbettafish3659

3 жыл бұрын

@@Aquarimax you can watch some tutorial from indonesian video they are always want 1kg a day😅

@DonALofts

3 жыл бұрын

@@ferdianbettafish3659 How long has your lived using poultry poop?

Great video! I’ve been working on trying to culture daphnia for my fish room. It’s been a struggle given my room restriction as well as it often being way too cold outside to do it on a larger scale. So I’m still trying the small-scale indoor setups

@Aquarimax

5 жыл бұрын

Philthy Tanks Best of luck! How big is the aquarium you are using to culture them?

I love daphnia!

@Aquarimax

4 жыл бұрын

Shawn Hardy me too! 😊👍

I was cleaning my jar of plants and was looking for mosquito larvae and saw these little creatures.I knew these were daphnia so I was looking through KZread and found the perfect videos for daphnia culture.😊

What do you think is the minimum container size to raise daphnia?

@Aquarimax

6 жыл бұрын

Simply Betta Great question! I have raised this strain in 1/2 gallon containers. I just give them a drop or two of food and a good stir once a day. A container like that works well if you just want to produce small quantities of daphnia. 👍

@SimplyBetta

6 жыл бұрын

That is really cool, because everywhere I have been reading says smaller containers are really dangerous for daphnia colonies and they can crash really easily. Of course maybe not feeding yeast can really help minimize that risk? These must be those magnums. Do you sell?

@Aquarimax

6 жыл бұрын

Simply Betta The risk of crashing definitely increases in a smaller container, but I do think you're right...the flour mixture is less crash-prone a food than yeast. 👍 I do sell them, shoot me an email on my about page and I'll give you all the details. 😁👍

@LadaD02

6 жыл бұрын

that is not an question''what do you think how small container to raise daphnia,they multiply fast in large groups and big tanks,so 100daphnia 10litres 1/3 10Gallon is 3 montsh 400daphnia,but e sure to harvest

Excellent,informative info...>THANK YOU!

@Aquarimax

6 жыл бұрын

Mark Purpel Thank you, very glad to hear it is helpful!

Cool! Really helped me. Thanks!

@Aquarimax

5 жыл бұрын

Ayana, Mio, & Chika Delighted to hear it! 😊👍

Thanks for posting this! I’m going to set up a daphnia culture soon to give my Sparkling Gouramis as live food

@Aquarimax

4 жыл бұрын

Wingless Excellent! The gouramis will love it!

@hallc2009

4 жыл бұрын

How did it turn out

Great info!!! i’ve had problems with the yeast. Maybe I’m overfeeding, but im going to the health food store today to buy all those flours 5:06 that you mentioned.

Excellent video and thanks it was very helpful. I tried daphnia culture few time but always failed but now I will try again. I will use your advice and information. Blessings.

@Aquarimax

5 жыл бұрын

Luis Pérez-Ruiz Thank Luis! I am glad it is helpful! Best of luck with your daphnia culture, and feel free to ask me any questions you may have.

Excellent video! Regards form Ecuador.

@Aquarimax

6 жыл бұрын

Paulo Preis Thank you so much! I appreciate it, Paulo!

Very good! I could just sit and watch the little life forms in your daphnia tank instead of the fish. I collect mine from the water buts in my allotment. Always plenty in Summer but no so good in our cold winter.

@Aquarimax

6 жыл бұрын

Graham Hall I am glad you have the same fascination with them that I do! 😊 When I culture mine outside, they last from March to October, but the winter is too cold here as well.

love your channel!

@Aquarimax

6 жыл бұрын

Mr.vivarium Thank you, it means a lot!

Very helpful video, much thanks

@Aquarimax

4 жыл бұрын

FirstTimeAquatics you are very welcome!

Thank you for this - I am in a neverending struggle with my daphnia culture. I first started culturing it indoors - and it crashed multiple times. It was aerated, warm, lighted, and fed yeast/spirulina. I eventually moved it outdoors over the summer where it was kept in a 5 gallon bucket. No aeration, no water changes, no food.. just lots of sunshine and whatever bugs fell in, and it did amazingly well. It's now winter again and I've brought it indoors, so I'm trying to learn more in the hope I can keep it alive this season! right now it's still in the five gallon bucket, aerated, lighted, and I've switched to flour and spirulina in the hopes the yeast was my problem. Cross your fingers for me!

@Aquarimax

5 жыл бұрын

Desert Bloom Bettas 🤞fingers crossed! The acclimation of the outdoor daphnia to indoors can be a little tricky...I recommend setting up one or two jar cultures as backup while you acclimate them to an indoor culture. 🤞

@desertbloombettas1961

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tip! I'll definitely do that. I have an empty breeder tank I'll start another culture in, just in case!

@Aquarimax

5 жыл бұрын

Desert Bloom Bettas good plan, and I hope I goes well! 😊👍

@pinoylakasradiostreaming5316

Жыл бұрын

Where did you get your starter daphnia?

@DesertBloomBettas

Жыл бұрын

@@pinoylakasradiostreaming5316 ebay

Very informative, thanks

Hi Max.. another great video!! =D ♥♥

@Aquarimax

6 жыл бұрын

DebTim A CANADIAN Girl Many thanks Deb!

Great video and very informative! Subbed☺

@Aquarimax

6 жыл бұрын

Mimi's Aquatic Addiction Thank you! 😊👍

First I will still need a starter daphnia culture. Tropical storm Fred left a nice puddle and here it turned out to be packed with daphnia. I collected a few hundred in a net and here I am a few days later and there are over a thousand eazy. They grow fast to adults and the reproduction rate continues to the high side. I found this, what I'll call a "wild strain" to be hardy, strong reproducers, survives on just a little algae, rice flour, pea flour, wheat flour and although it's not necessary I add just a VERY small tough of active yeast. Since daphnia are born pregnant it takes no time to to start and have a self suficent culture of daphnia that will reproduce fast enough to feed all your fish and their fry. Pay attention to the video I've attached this comment to. I consider the author to be one of the for most experts in the field of raising not only daphnia cultures but many other types of cultures all good for your, fry through adult fish. I intend next add a culture of his daphnia to hopefully even make my "wild strain" that much stronger. That will have to seen for me to believe, they may already be a better choice that the "Wild strain" I found. Just leave a comment here and I'm sure he will be happy to sell you a starter culture as well.

Awesome timing on this video, I just got my hands on some Daphnia Magna and some Daphnia Pulex a week ago. I've been feeding them yeast and am a little confused about the feeding amount. Based on what I was told I should be using around 1/8th of a teaspoon of yeast for my 2 10 gallon tanks, then feed when the water clears up. But...my water has been getting clear within 4-6 hrs of feeding, rather than 2-3 days as I expected. I only have a small amount of daphnia in each tank so I thought the tanks would stay cloudy longer. My setup is pretty much the same as yours, 10 gallon tanks with a sponge filter and a little java moss. I also have ramshorn and pond snails in my tanks. Maybe I should switch to using flour as you do, seems easier to me. Also need to get some spirulina powder!

@Aquarimax

6 жыл бұрын

Glad to know it is helpful! The sponge filter may actually be filtering some of the yeast out of the water. I would recommend keeping the sponge filter in the tank for surface area but detaching it from the airline. Just let airline bubble. And I agree...the flour mixture is easier! It works without spirulina, just with somewhat lower production.

@MikeKollin

6 жыл бұрын

Do you mean just regular organic Spirulina powder you can get at the Vitamin store? Thanks!

@prakashx.tfrancis3749

5 жыл бұрын

whitedragon1337 where do I get daphnia?

Hey! Awesome video and tank set up!! I had a quick question: how did you set up your water? I’ve heard that spring water is ok, but the daphnia require hard water. I currently have soft water aquarium water and natural spring ozonated water at hand but I’m not sure how to get it just right

@Aquarimax

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I'd try the aquarium water or the spring water.

Thanks for your videos on Daphnia. I've setup a 10 gallon and a couple mason jars as backup. The colonies are growing but my ammonia is reading from 1 to 2 ppm, nitrite around .5 ppm and nitrite and 10ppm for nitrate. I've been doing 25% water changes daily that helps but it goes right back up. Do you see this kind of readings with your daphnia tanks? I'm feeding 6-10 ml of spirulina mix that's 1/8 tsp spirulina to 1/4 cup water.

Great video. I was trying to keep Daphnia in a 60 litre tank, plus a couple of 12 litre jars and some in jam jars as backups. I was mixing yeast and water and keeping it in the fridge but 3 times I found that all seem to crash at the same time after a few weeks. After watching this, I'm thinking it might be the yeast mixture if it was over a week old. So I'm going to give it another try using Spirulina and Flour mixture. I saw in another comment that you use Prime water conditioner which answered a question I had as I heard Daphnia didn't like declorinators. Thanks again and I've subscribed 👍

@Aquarimax

4 ай бұрын

You’re welcome! I appreciate your subscribing! It could indeed be the yeast, which I now use, but I don’t store in solution, I mix it fresh every time. If it is mixed fresh and thoroughly, it can work, but it is easy to overfeed.

Love your videos and I learn a lot from you. What is the yellow thing on the bottom of your tank? My tank have build up of green thing that look like their bio waste but I'm not sure if that is waste or not. I only use Spirulina to feed them and added about 10 snails and one pleco recently hoping to clean up that green thing. Please reply if anyone what that green thing is.

@Aquarimax

6 жыл бұрын

Gajeel Thanks for watching! The yellow thing-is it the chunk of cuttlebone I added to provide calcium, or the layer of detritus? The green stuff on the bottom of your tank is probably detritus...shed skins, waste, etc. I often some of that when I do water changes.

Excellent video

@Aquarimax

6 жыл бұрын

Shelley G. Thank you, much appreciated!

I always culture my daphnia outdoors with direct sunlight, i wonder if it can be cultured indoors without any light source, probably will try it in my next project. Thanks for the video though ...

Wonderful, helpful informative video. I'd like to start culturing daphnia for my schoutedeni puffers. Can I buy a starter culture from you? I live in the midwest USA

@Aquarimax

5 жыл бұрын

Aub_K Thank you, and you cerrtainly can! Please contact me for details here: www.aquarimax.com/contact/

They’re so cute

@Aquarimax

5 жыл бұрын

m77yice killem I think so too 😊👍

Thanks again for a great tutorial, this one on daphnia. I was hoping you could share the type of daphnia that are the easiest to raise and to find on the market? Is it possible to tell if you’re getting what they say you’re buying?

@Aquarimax

4 жыл бұрын

Mark Von Feldt you’re welcome! Daphnia pulex are common, and fairly easy. Moina species are very similar to daphnia, yet even easier. It can be difficult to tell which species you are getting without a look at the daphnia/ephippia under a microscope. The ones I have, for example, were sold as ‘Russian Red Daphnia,’ without a scientific name. I believe there were two species in the initial culture, but one has since disappeared.

Very cool, I do not keep any fish, but find culturing pretty much anything interesting - as you know lol !

@Aquarimax

6 жыл бұрын

Shane We think alike! 😁👍

Hi, and thanks so much for all the awesome info and advice that you share. I was wondering if you've heard of anyone using powdered nutritional yeast, or Bacter AE in a food mix?

@cinalaffoon6617

Жыл бұрын

I've used bacter ae with spiraling and bee pollen. It was in my outdoor tubs though, so they had other sources of food. It definitely didn't harm the culture though, and it works well for shrimp so I assume the daphnia like it too

daphnia is great for small fish. my betta fish love them

that tip at 1:20 i've never seen that with the pvc pipe. thanks a lot!

@Aquarimax

6 жыл бұрын

rainishell Thanks! The pipe works well, although it began to smell rather like hydrogen sulfide when I first began to drain the tank. I eventually removed it. This is strange, as I had it for quite a long time without this issue.

@benjay011

3 жыл бұрын

@@Aquarimax so would u recommend that with a regular fish tank? thanks

@Aquarimax

3 жыл бұрын

Benjamin Codilla I would be concerned fish might swim up the pipe.

@benjay011

3 жыл бұрын

@@Aquarimax true but its only one beta fish. might be a future project i consider with another tank

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@Aquarimax

6 жыл бұрын

Andrew Chen You're welcome!

I'm writing a parody song about this genus and it's fun learning about them to see if I can make my lyrics better.

@Aquarimax

3 ай бұрын

I would love to hear it!

Best daphnia breeding video. Now, it's easy!

@Aquarimax

5 жыл бұрын

roger sfc Glad it is helpful! 😊👍

Very helpful video 👍🏼

@Aquarimax

4 жыл бұрын

Paul Mace Glad to hear it!!

Hello I can't seem to find Green Pea Flour I saw in one of your videos where you have the daphnia in a jar and you have a mix of Spirulina Powder, Brown Rice Flour, and Pea/Garbanzo Flour for food but in this one you use the same things but add wheat flour, and Green Pea Flour for a food source other than the two added is both safe to use or any different from the other? Other than just adding two other ingredients? I'm about or order some daphnia to feed to my baby Axolotls and want to get a good system going before my axolotls hatch

@Aquarimax

5 жыл бұрын

Ashley Green I notice the best results when I mix spirulina with several flours, but garbanzo flour is fine instead of green pea powder if you are unable to find it. However, if you do a search for “pea protein powder” you should find some.

Hay bud great info what water temperature do daphnia like mate

@Aquarimax

3 жыл бұрын

bill and ben If you got them indoors, just about anything that is comfortable for you is comfortable for them. My room temps vary between about 18 C in winter to 26 C in summer, and they are fine all year. 👍🏽

Have you tried raising freshwater fairy shrimps? You can get eggs just like brine shrimps. You can raise them with the daphnia I suppose.

@Aquarimax

6 жыл бұрын

professorM I have raised a few different species of fairy shrimp, I really enjoy them! In this video I show the first week or two of my beavertail fairy shrimp project: kzread.info/dash/bejne/nYqf1cuCpdvYYMY.html and here is one of my really old videos of some redtail fairy shrimp I raised: kzread.info/dash/bejne/p2aO19azdszHctY.html (you can see Daphnia, clam shrimp, and seed shrimp in the aquarium as well.)

@professorm4171

6 жыл бұрын

cool. Did they reproduce in the tank? Or do they produce eggs and need a dormant stage? There's a species from Thailand I might look at.

@Aquarimax

6 жыл бұрын

professorM The two features in the videos need a dormant egg stage, as far as I know. I kept another species (found locally) that did not need a dormant stage...nauplii just appeared in the tank. I have looked into that Thai species a bit, but I haven’t tried it yet.

Thanks for sharing

Thanks for the informative video! I am about to buy Daphnia for my Advanced higher Biology project, and i was just wondering if i could just feed them wheat flour alone? Or even just yeast. Also how long would they live for if i were to feed them this diet? Thanks

@Aquarimax

5 жыл бұрын

UnderTM plain wheat flour will work indefinitely, but they will likely produce less. I have used yeast, but tend to avoid it...seems to cause crashes.

The daphnia are doing well. Have gone from a few to several hundred in the tank. How long do you refrigerate the food mixed for them?

@Aquarimax

3 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it! The refrigerated mixed liquid will last at least a month, and the powder lasts even longer in the fridge...probably 6-12 months.

Appreciate your comment about the feeding of yeast. After having great success with pure spirulina powder, I switched to yeast and suffered a major crash in both my culture. I have restarted them with the survivors. I am now back on the spirulina powder feeding and will have to live with negative comments of family and friends on the distinct yellow tint to the water. Is this yellow discoloration, after the the initial green feeding, typical?

@Aquarimax

6 жыл бұрын

pondboss I haven't been using Spirulina as a sole food--only when mixed with the flours--and I haven't noticed a yellow tint...I wonder if that only occurs with pure spirulina? It might be worth trying the flour/spirulina mixture and seeing if makes a difference.

@pondboss3720

6 жыл бұрын

I will give using some sort of flour + spirulina mix it a try after I build my cultures back up. But I am committed to staying away from yeast.

@Aquarimax

6 жыл бұрын

pondboss sounds good! If you have a chance, let me know how your cultures respond. 👍

Hi,My second batch of Daphnia crashed after a week. Can’t understand what I’m doing wrong??I changed from yeast in my first batch to the flour and spirulina mix in my second. Feeding about 4 ml per day to a colony of 700.Is it my water??Can you recommend a fresh water food that I can culture that is more hardy? I’m feeding wild caught Gourami with smallish mouths. I primarily feed them freshly hatched baby brine 4 times a week. I also feed black worms quite often and flightless fruit flies occasionally. I’ve got a 20 gallon tank set up exclusively for the culture but can’t keep anything alive. Really frustrating. Just want to provide something else to feed. Any advice will help. I’ve spent a lot on the daphnia and would like to try something perhaps easier with my feeder tank.Thanks Russ! Great informative channel!!!

@Aquarimax

6 жыл бұрын

Matt Williams Hi Matt, and thanks for watching! 😊👍 It could be your water, but you could try decreasing the feeding...to every other day or every three days, but if you want a species that you can culture in that tank that is easier, try amphipods/scuds. If you want, you can even culture Daphnia together with scuds with no additional effort. The scuds kick up fine particles of food as they eat, and the Daphnia thrive. If your hours is are eating flightless fruit flies, they should be able to eat scuds. 👍 here is my culture video on the species : kzread.info/dash/bejne/dH2G29eNnrqsZsY.html

I have a brand new 10 gallon tank that's been here for about 3 years. Do I have to let it go through the whole nitrogen cycle or can the Daphnia be added in 2 weeks or so?

@Aquarimax

6 жыл бұрын

Michael Wells Good question! I would suggest cycling the tank completely, or just adding a very small amount of daphnia at first, and feed lightly. With such a low bioload it won't be too much of an issue, and the beneficial bacteria population will increase as the daphnia do. Alternatively, if you are sure you don't have any hydra in your aquariums, you could drop in some nice funky filter media from an established tank and you'd be good to go immediately.

wow！i love your video 😍😍do we need to syphon out the dead daphnia that sank to the bottom of tank ？？？

@Aquarimax

5 жыл бұрын

Seow Weisin Thank you! Yes, it is good to siphon some of the detritus out of the tank at each water change. I don’t suggest removing it all at once, though.

Thanks for the informative video. Would you please share me if you have an experiance of feeding spirulina powder alone for Daphnia culture? I am struggling to grow using spirulina powder, but they die with in five days.

You want to get as large of a container as is feasible for these cultures. I think 50 gallons and up will result in a much more stable culture. Great video, love your channel.

@Aquarimax

6 жыл бұрын

sedghammer Thank you! 😊👍 I agree, the larger they are, the better in terms of production and stability.

Got couple questions: 1. What is the PH of your daphnia tank? 2. When you do the water change, you mentioned that you don't use the water from fish/plant tanks. In that case, what kind of water do you use to fill up the daphnia tank? My daphnia culture was successfully explode from 100 to 1000s daphnia in a 3g tank less than couple weeks, but it completely crashed right on my 1st water change... :( I believe my mistake was I did a 50% WC w/ mixing 1/2 tank water + 1/2 cooled boiled drinking/tap water... But I couldn't figure out if it's from the 50% WC, or the mixture of the refill water...

@Aquarimax

6 жыл бұрын

I will need to test the pH and let you know, I left my ph test kit at work. 😳 It is very possible that a 50% water change was the problem, if the pH was lower than the replacement water, it could have caused ammonium to change to ammonia. On the other hand, it could have been tapwater, there are often traces of heavy metals in it that will kill them.

Hi I’ve watched a couple of times I don’t hear you talk about temperature, do you have any advice on that? Thanks Lee

@randomh2036

4 жыл бұрын

I have kept them in 100F weather and under an inch of ice. They are very hardy when it comes to temperature

enjoyed this video, just missing "how/where to get start daphnia" .. my tank used to have Daphnia but i've not seem them in awhile or maybe their population is so low i just havent founded them (my new dwarf Gourami might have decimated them lol) ... anyway does 'big box' pet stores have them or need to buy online?

@Aquarimax

2 жыл бұрын

Generally you big box pet stores do not carry them, but www.Aquabid.com usually has them.

Great info 👍🏼

@Aquarimax

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

I have some daphnia in a jar that I got out of a lake (I wasn’t really expecting to get anything I was just wondering what I could get out of the water, I mainly was just looking to get some free plants) and I was wondering how long I should have the culture going before feeding it to the fish. I have four minnows so I don’t need a ton of food for them I just want to improve their diet a bit. Can they live in the jar without the huge setup? Also what temperature should I keep it at because I have a spare heater laying around I just don’t know what to set it at.

@Aquarimax

5 жыл бұрын

Spivey C I made a video specifically about culturing daphnia in a jar: kzread.info/dash/bejne/lGSOztmtmq3bacY.html. It should give you the information you need. 😊👍Room temperature will be fine, no need for a heater.

i miss the old days where private fish stoes had a constant supply of brine shrimp and i loved feeding my fish daphne, it would look like my tank was full of them, they called them water fleas and i think the fish loved the way they moved and brought out their natural hunting instinct

@gitarmac

2 жыл бұрын

I do too. I remember going to the best fish/aquarium stores when I was a kid in the 60's and 70's, even when I lived in a very rural area. It's disappointing now, employees don't know anything about keeping fish, the fish are in horrible shape and there isn't much choice in species, not where I live. I can't find cardinals anywhere, I don't remember the last time I saw a discus tank. What happened to hatchet fish. Saltwater seems to be all the rage but even that is disappointing.

Yea a new video it's amazing as always keep up the amazing work👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

@Aquarimax

6 жыл бұрын

Dinosaurs terroir World 😁👍😁👍😁👍 thank you, Dinosaurs terroir World!

@dinosaurterrorworld144

6 жыл бұрын

Aquarimax did you try to culture triops before?????????

@Aquarimax

6 жыл бұрын

Dinosaurs terroir World I have raised Triops many times. I am planning in making a video about it soon. 👍

@dinosaurterrorworld144

6 жыл бұрын

Aquarimax I tried to culture them before but unfortunately they all dead maybe because I over feed them or maybe it was to cold I don't know the reason but now I switched up to triops to isopods(pillbugs) and there amazing creatures I just love them they look cool and very easy to keep and there just amazing 😉

@dinosaurterrorworld144

6 жыл бұрын

Aquarimax so the next livestream is tomorrow?????? You said on Monday

Hi. I have a question if you're not to busy and don't mind answering! Is a light a necessity, or can i just put it on a window? i live in cold Britain :) I just want to "grow" some in a glass jar.

@Aquarimax

4 жыл бұрын

Hi! A window could work...too much light can be worse than too little though. A north-facing window would be good, as long as the temps don’t get to the point where it is forming ice in the water, you should be ok.

Great video 👍🏻

@Aquarimax

6 жыл бұрын

rosu cristian Thank You! 😊👍

Can you explain why you keep the sponge in the aquarium? And how did you get it to sink? I'm really glad I found this video, because I was thinking of some kind of PVC siphon for my daphnia culture, but it is nice to see it in action!

@Aquarimax

6 жыл бұрын

Ivy Greene great questions! The sponge helps provide surface area for beneficial bacteria, as well as for the scuds That live with the Daphnia. Once the air bubbles were gone, it sank very easily. I squeezed it a few times underwater to help with that. The PVC siphon worked well, but started to smell after a while, every time I used it, so while it is functional, I decided to remove it.

@user-vv1qf1jk4z

6 жыл бұрын

Awesome, thanks!

What do you do with that gallon of water you siphon off? Does it have daphnia in it? Is it what you use to feed your fish? I’ve just discovered your channel, I’ll go watch some more videos to see how you do things. Thank you.

@Aquarimax

6 жыл бұрын

Mega MindyLou I usually try to minimize the Daphnia I catch when I remove water, but if I end up getting a lot, I will usually pour it through a net and feed them to the fish, Thanks so much for watching!

Hey, I was wondering if you needed to cycle the tank beforehand, thanks

@Aquarimax

6 жыл бұрын

Lilly Pad It helps, but is not necessary, especially if you start with a small number of Daphnia. 👍

Hey. I'm wanting to try culturing daphnia and was wondering if algae wafers would work if grinded up into a fine powder?

@Aquarimax

2 жыл бұрын

Something I have been doing for a while now, based on a tip from Adam B. I add Aqueon algae rounds whole. The scuds I keep with the daphnia munch on the algae rounds and release a cloud of fine particles into the water, which the daphnia eat. It works great!

I'm getting red daphnias Saturday but hope sooner

@Aquarimax

6 жыл бұрын

Wolfdreamer 29 Excellent! I hope they thrive for you!

@AeshmaCross24

6 жыл бұрын

Aquarimax is there anything I need to do like temp food water type ect?

Highly informative, thank you. Would distilled water be a good choice to grow my colony? Is bottled water a better choice?

@Aquarimax

4 жыл бұрын

Fred Knox bottled spring water is better than distilled They do need some minerals in the water. 👍

@fredknox9406

4 жыл бұрын

@@Aquarimax I'll give it a go, thank you

@Aquarimax

4 жыл бұрын

Fred Knox let me know how it turns out 👍

@fredknox9406

4 жыл бұрын

@@Aquarimax I was going to pick up a culture, but will wait a few weeks, until things start improving. I currently have plenty of food for my betta, need to treat algae in my tank right now, I'll give you an update when I'm up and running. Thanks

@Aquarimax

4 жыл бұрын

Fred Knox sounds good. Waiting a few weeks at this point could be prudent. 👍

What temperature do you keep them at? Do you sell these same daphinia and scuds? If so, where?

@Aquarimax

5 жыл бұрын

Jake Grammer I keep them at room temperature, the ambient temperature varying between 65 and 78 F in the room, depending on season. They aren’t picky that way. I do sell them. You can go to my ‘about’ page on KZread, and email me from there, and I will send a price list. 👍

Hey, Please Respond ❗ At what temperature do you keep the tank? No heater, warm room temperature❓ Thanks 👍

@Aquarimax

3 жыл бұрын

Rico Kowalski Just room temps, no heater. The room temp varies from 65 in the winter to 80 in the summer.

I am currently trying my hand at daphnia. So far I am doing well, and your video showed me the error in my ways; I was trying to do too much. I have a question I hope you can answer. I have some type of worm-ish things in the daphnia tank. I see them on the glass, and I see some free swimming that look like little S's. I believe that both the glass ones and free swimming ones are the same. Any idea what they are, or if they are harmful to either my fish or daphnia? If they are harmful, do I have to start over, or do you have tips you could share on getting rid of them safely in my daphnia tank?

@Aquarimax

4 жыл бұрын

Trishelle DeCoite they could be, and probably are, detritus worms. If so, they are harmless to fish and daphnia, and are in fact an additional live food for your fish. 👍

Hello again, in regards to the flours is there anything else I could put in a food ? Thanks

@Aquarimax

6 жыл бұрын

Paul Boyle With the scuds in the culture to break down larger food items into small particles, you can theoretically rely on pieces of vegetables and fish food. As far as flours, almost any grain or bean flour can work in the combo, variety is good, the spirulina boosts production, but is not 100% needed.

I just set up a Daphnia tank in a window. How long should the water age? I used NovAqua to neutralize chloramine in the water.

My catfish never talks pls help

@Aquarimax

5 жыл бұрын

Gaijilla himself You just may have an introverted catfish. Try enrolling your catfish in a public speaking class. 🤣👍

I have a sealed jar of pond water with multiple snails, daphnia, seed shrimp, cyclops, duckweed and Canadian pondweed. What I noticed over time is that the seed shrimp inside evolved to be smaller, whilst the daphnia became larger. My cyclops also became very few in number. Quite interesting ecosystem. I also never feed them. Sun is all they need!

@Aquarimax

6 жыл бұрын

Do you have videos of this system?

What is the light settings for your indoor culture? 24/7 or only certain hours?

Cool video m8

@Aquarimax

6 жыл бұрын

Mark's Fish Keeping UK Thank you Mark! 👍

@aquarimax pets - I just set up a couple of buckets to culture greenwater. Have freshwater mussels that I'm feeding it to. Going to get a culture of daphnia going again.

@Aquarimax

5 жыл бұрын

Sedghammer I hope they thrive for you...they sure love greenwater! 😊👍

Sir,This Mixer How many days can keep in a Refrigerator?Is it not spoiled?

@Aquarimax

4 жыл бұрын

cichlidpark sri lanka It lasts more than a month for me, usually. 👍

Hi, i keep some cherry shrimp with my daphnia and the shrimps are infected with vorticella parasite. Do you have any treatment that would safe to treat the tank with the daphnia in it as well? Thank you

Hi! This has been the most helpful vids for indoor Daphnia culture I've come across. I'm growing D. magna for a local pet store, feeding with a combo of micronized rice bran and Chlorella algae. I had trouble with excessive bacteria in my 15 gal. tubs, probably from overfeeding, according to what you've stated about 10ml feedings. I'm trying to get to 10K+ per tub, which is much denser than what appears in your tank. I've also put homemade sponge filters in the tanks, which seem to collect much of the suspended rice bran. either way, it seems to disappear in a few hours. would I still get max production with such a light feed, and once a day? I've heard everywhere how easy it is to overfeed, so I thought I'd ask. PS: Your culture videos are generous and very helpful.

@Aquarimax

5 жыл бұрын

Fritz Wilhelm Hi! I’m very glad that you find my my videos helpful! I suspect your sponge filters are removing a lot of the food from the water column before the daphnia can get to it, but then that food is still available in the filter to feed the bacteria. You might try removing a sponge filter from one of the tubs and seeing how production and bacterial growth differ. High-density cultures like you describe are easier with Moina than with daphnia. You might be able to manage it, but such cultures are more prone to crashes. You will probably need to feed a little more heavily than I do, but I would build up gradually. The nice thing is that you can have experimental and control tubs to tweak variables. Best of luck to you, let me know how it goes, or if I can offer any more help! 😊👍

@fritzwilhelm8258

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you sir! My magnas will undoubtedly thank you as well. You are right about the moina. They don't call them mo' mo' moina for nothing! I'll keep in touch and tell you what succeeds.

is there anything youd add to the food powder mix, also is the ratio of ingredients pretty much 1 parts of each?

@Aquarimax

5 жыл бұрын

Linden Edwards The food powered mix is pretty flexible, but yes 1:1:1 ratio works well. Spirulina, rice flour, and pea or garbanzo flour work really well with no other ingredients 😊👍

How long do hydrae live out of water? I want to kill off this problem without necessarily using a ton of chemicals. I am considering A. Reusing the tank for Daphnia, or B. Setting up a quarantine tank for incoming new fish. Would like to save Amphipods, beneficial bacteria and snails if possible

Are these related to the water boatman? They look and move similarly

@Aquarimax

4 жыл бұрын

Julie Mcgugan they do move very similarly, I totally see what you mean. They are crustaceans, though, so they are not closely related to water boatman.

would they be good for small rainbowfish like the Pseudomugil or ember tetras?

@Aquarimax

4 жыл бұрын

Jese's Aquarium They would definitely eat the small young daphnia. The adults of the strains of daphnia I raise would probably be a bit big.

@JesemanuelRamirez

4 жыл бұрын

@@Aquarimax thank you very much

hello I live in Colombia and try to raise daphnia outside, but there is a problem I live in a forest with many small tree frogs, and specially now in the rain season every day they lay hundreds of eggs in all the water they can find, I have thousands of tadpoles and they also get into the buckets with the daphnia and in the tanks with green water to feed the daphnias, I don't know if that might be a problem or do I have to keep the daphnias without tadpoles!? I see you have an air hose making bubbles is that necessary? thanks!

@Aquarimax

6 ай бұрын

I would recommend using a fine screen to keep the frogs out if you notice they are causing issues. The air hose is not necessary, but it does tend to increase the yields of daphnia quite a bit

Awesome video! Just wanted to say, your voice is so, I dunno, announcer-like, and is very nice to listen to. XD

@Aquarimax

6 жыл бұрын

The Turtle Girl Thank you, I appreciate that! 😊👍

What do you recommend as the go-to daphnia species to look for?

@Aquarimax

5 жыл бұрын

smorc655 there is s lot of confusion regarding daphnia names in the hobby, but I was sold this strain as ‘Russian Ref Daphnia’ , without a scientific name. They are extremely hardy. Daphnia pulex is another good option. If you can source Moina, they are a good candidate for high-density culture.

Hi I just watched this entire video and I am now inspired to start a daphnia culture, but I'd like to know whether freeze-dried daphnia can be used to feed betta fry, because I can't seem to find any info on this on google. What is your opinion?

@Aquarimax

4 жыл бұрын

Nashorn Great question. Freeze-dried daphnia would tend to be too large until the daphnia fry had had some time to grow. For betta fry I used Infusoria and vinegar eels, then switched to baby brine shrimp and walterworms.

@nashorn5803

4 жыл бұрын

@@Aquarimax If thats the case, would it be advisable to feed live daphnia besides the choices you suggested to betta fry as their first feed? I'm thinking of breeding betta, but the last time I tried growing my betta fry I foolishly used store-bought fish food that was way too big for the betta fry to eat, resulting in the widespread destruction of the fry.

Hi would the spirulina powder alone work? Thanks

Hi, great video. I have a question, I have many aquarium from which to take water for daphnia water changes. However, all my large aquariums contain fancy goldfish, this means that the nitrates can be quite high, ie 40-60 ppm. Is nitrate a problem for daphnia?

@Aquarimax

4 жыл бұрын

Denise Pollitt Not necessarily, especially if you have some suspended algae growing in there, the algae will love the nitrates, and the daphnia will love the algae.

@denisepollitt1021

4 жыл бұрын

@@Aquarimax. Thank you!

I’m thinking of culturing them for my newts do you think a sponge filter would work for aeration

@Aquarimax

2 жыл бұрын

A sponge filter might work, but a fresh one might also take too much of their food out of the water.

I've had success with yeast.... though I will say that I did have a few significant failures with yeast when I first started. When I first started feeding with yeast I prepared the yeast the same way you would when baking with yeast, and how it tells you to on most yeast packaging. That being use very warm water, and add sugar. For some reason caused my cultures to crash when I accidentally put in too much. I've heard a few explanations for this like the formation of acohol(which it wasn't, that takes at least 2 days) to something called "shock excretion" but whatever the case, when my yeast culture was prepared this way, I had frequent culture crashes. Later I saw someone else raise thier culture on yeast, but did not prepare it with sugar. I did the same and have never had another crash of my cultures. So while anecdotal, I've had success with yeast. I will say though that I usually suplement their diets with more varied sources when I know I will have need of them for raising fry, just to get their nutritional value up. But just for the sake of keeping the cultures alive until they are again needed, yeast works fine for me.

@Aquarimax

5 жыл бұрын

Tay h thanks for sharing, that is good information! When I used yeast in the past, I had the most success when I dissolved it was n water before adding it, and did not add sugar either. 👍

If i get my tanks and fish i would like to try this. The only thing is i was thinking of using a bucket .

@Aquarimax

6 жыл бұрын

Stephen Bamber A bucket works well...I raise them outdoors in buckets quite often. 👍

Can you list the mix you use to feed your daphnia

If you keep them aoutdors , do they die in the winter?

@Aquarimax

5 жыл бұрын

cactofilo In the climate i live in, when I keep them outside, they die off in late October/ early November, and then the eggs hatch around March. 😊👍