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.
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.
I found a bunch of daphnia in a puddle on the ATV trail near my work. I've now taken my old 10 gallon and some greenwater from my 30 gallon to make a mini culture tank... My hope is the lights and empty tank will boost that greenwater algae as fast as the daphnia spawn and create an infinity tank of sorts, but i'm also gonna use some of this advice to go even further beyond! The only question is if i should add a bubbler to give it airation or keep it stillwater like the puddle i found them in....
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.
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!
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.
In this method the daphnia would mainly reproduce by cloning themselves and giving live birth. If conditions become unfavorable for them (which maynot in this situation as he feeding greenwater and doing water changes) they will then produce males and females and they will mate producing egg sacs. Youll see it in females as a tiny dark color pea shaped sac on their back. They would them release them and you can see some floating in water surface but majority would be in the debris in the tub base. Siphon it out using a bbs net and then air dry until completely dry. Store in air tight container to use at later date. Hope this helps.
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.
Hair algae can appear in daphnia tubs that have been culturing for several months. You only want free floating algae as the hair or string algae can't be used as food for them and they can get entangled/trapped causing them to die.
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
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
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.
Nice vid Mike
What are your day, night air temperatures? What aspect ie nth south east west side of the house do you have the tubes
Great video, but the music is annoying
Hi, why not put organizer fertilizer in the daphnia culture to have green water there
I found a bunch of daphnia in a puddle on the ATV trail near my work. I've now taken my old 10 gallon and some greenwater from my 30 gallon to make a mini culture tank... My hope is the lights and empty tank will boost that greenwater algae as fast as the daphnia spawn and create an infinity tank of sorts, but i'm also gonna use some of this advice to go even further beyond! The only question is if i should add a bubbler to give it airation or keep it stillwater like the puddle i found them in....
I’ve got hens so I use a bit of chooky poo as fertiliser.
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.
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!
What climate do you live in, are the cultures & green water in direct sun, and do the daphnia survive over the winter? Thank you!! :)
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.
I'm in Texas and they slow down during the winter otherwise the are booming. I feed Bakers yeast though
Hey man great video. Have you ever tried harvesting the eggs as a backup? If so what method do you use?
In this method the daphnia would mainly reproduce by cloning themselves and giving live birth. If conditions become unfavorable for them (which maynot in this situation as he feeding greenwater and doing water changes) they will then produce males and females and they will mate producing egg sacs. Youll see it in females as a tiny dark color pea shaped sac on their back.
They would them release them and you can see some floating in water surface but majority would be in the debris in the tub base. Siphon it out using a bbs net and then air dry until completely dry. Store in air tight container to use at later date. Hope this helps.
@@CrowntailHalfmoon thanks will give it a shot
Can you buy daphnia eggs like brine shrimp?
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.
Hair algae can appear in daphnia tubs that have been culturing for several months.
You only want free floating algae as the hair or string algae can't be used as food for them and they can get entangled/trapped causing them to die.
@@CrowntailHalfmoon Really? I thought if people constancy threw out the culture and started new they never saw hair algae....
where did u get daphnia?
You can buy a culture online. But it's not as easy as what they say. Mine died in just a week
Amazon has live Daphnia for 13 bucks from Carolina supply.
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
Probably overfeeding. Green water is safest food.
What do you do when it rains?
Hi, any other type of organic fertilizer would work?
I'm not sure, I've been using this one. I have tried manure before....what a mess!
@@michaelecht2216 Got it thanks :)
where do you get your 'starter' daphnia? A pond, river your gutter? where do you get them? Stores don't sell daphnia eggs.
Really have you searched online?
I just bought a bag of live daphnia from a fish shop.
Amazon sells daphnia eggs
mmmm what about temperature ? Need heater ?