Day 13 of Recovery - SCUDS! - Everything you want to know
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- Опубликовано: 4 мар 2021
- Featuring: Recovery Update, Detailed Explanation of Scud Production, Recommendations for Hobbyist Production of Scuds
Starring: Scuds (Gammarus)
Cameos: Axolotls
Green Tree Frog
Diamondback Water Snakes
The Reading Glasses
Oso & Maya (German Shepherd Dogs)
Scuds, also known as Gammarus, are a shrimplike crustacean. They are
currently classified as Hyalella azteca. They are native to North America
and are used as live-food for fish.
Here are some blogs about scuds:
goliadfarms.com/maybe-i-can-g...
goliadfarms.com/update-on-gam...
goliadfarms.com/shop/gammarus...
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Thirteenth Day of Recovery from the Texas Winter Storm of 2021
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We've had lots of requests for a GoFundMe, so we set one up.
Here's the link: gf.me/u/zkkazc
We also had requests for a donation method that will accept PayPal, so we set up a FundRazr.
Here's the link: fundrazr.com/a1mRpf?ref=ab_49...
Anyone that donates can ask Charles a questions that will be answered in a video on our channel.
The overwhelming outpouring of support from the fish community has been humbling and so appreciated. Thank you all!
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A huge THANK YOU to Cory @Aquarium Co-Op !!!
He gave our channel exposure right after the winter storm, which drove a ton of traffic our way. He is also donating ad revenue from a video tour he did of our facility about 2 years ago (link below). You can see what our hatchery looked like before the devastation of the Texas winter storm of 2021. Please go check it out.
Here's the tour video:
• You've Never Seen This...
This is his channel:
/ @aquariumcoop 
Животные
Came because of Corey, staying because of Charles..
Thank you. Cory and @aquariumcoop have been a huge help to us. I hope to get Cory back after we recover for another visit.
Charles
Great comment!!!!!!! Isn't he great!!!
Okay we get it, everyone is here because of Cory
Cory doesn’t own Goliad Farms
@@muslimamericansfortrump2027 really! Oh we thought he did. That's why we mentioned him. 🙄
Yes!!!❤️💞🙏
Holy crap, you’re 70? You are in incredible shape
Healthy happy active living 👍👍 loads of fish will keep you on your feet🏃
Thank you. I get lots of sunlight, fresh air, and exercise. Also, Susie is a great cook and feeds me healthy foods.
Charles
That's exactly what I said!
I know this is an older video but I just wanted to say that I’m very inspired by you. I am a college student preparing to enter the aquatics industry and to see you running your business is awesome.
Currently in the process of setting up a small scud culture to feed my fish and african dwarf frogs, this video was super helpful! Thank you.
Good luck with your scuds. One of our grandbrats raises axolotls and keeps scuds with them as food. The only liability of that is at egg laying time. The eggs have to be immediately removed to a scud free tank to avoid the scuds devouring them.
Charles
I'm so glad to be part of this hobby, it's filled with wonderful people. Thank you for posting
Thank you for watching. We started posting videos again today and hope to post a couple a week for now on.
Charles
I really like seeing the 'day-to-day on a fish farm' aspect of this video
Thank you. We plan to continue providing videos showing our day-to-day work.
Charles
My chickens just love duckweed. There's a fight between the chickens and the goldfish at the pond when I put some in. I've heard of people dehydrating duckweed and feeding it back to the fish.
More-so for shrimp IMHO if you're going through the trouble of dehydration!
I can imagine. Our chickens always got excited when they saw me coming with a bucket of duckweed.
Charles
I dehydrate salvinia and turn that into fish/shrimp food all the time. Great stuff.
Corey did a wonderful video for sure! I'm glad you made a youtube channel. You have such an awesome set up and I absolutely am intrigued to how you run your farm!
Thank you. We will continue videos even after we finish documenting our recovery.
Charles
Absolutely loving this channel. Thank you all so much for giving us a look into your ecosystem. It’s amazing what y’all have done and I find this very inspiring as we all recover from that winter storm. I’ve just recently become very interested in scuds as well so this is perfect timing for this video.
Thank you. The scuds are taking advantage of lower fish populations in the vats and reproducing like mad even where we aren't trying to raise them.
Charles
Saw the original video with aquarium coop a while back and really pleased to see you on RUclips regularly now, just wish it was under better circumstances for you all though. It’s hard to appreciate the volume of losses but glad to see you moving forward, hope you keep the content coming, the whole process of running the farm is really interesting.
We will cotinue to document our recovery and, now that we have experience, will make informational videos afterward.
Charles
Loving the great new updates guys
Keep up the hard work. The channel will help so many people 💚
Thank you. We hope people find the information useful.
Charles
just came over to your channel and misread it thought it was a recovery of spuds and then had to look up scuds...fascinating information.
Thank you. Scuds are also known as gammarus. Ours are Hyalella azteca.
Charles
awesome!!! I've been waiting for this one. all these years in the hobby and somehow never heard of scuds been quite curious since I looked em up
They are the easiest livefood to culture. Rapid population growth, easy to feed, tolerant of a huge range of environmental conditions, etc.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 think I'm gonna try it out. set up a 40 breeder or a 65 gallon for em for a smaller operation.
Some people use them as algae controllers. Their super neat constantly active and doing something.
Really enjoying these updates Charles, keep up the great work!!
Thank you. We are working on more updates.
Charles
Thankyou so much for This series of Videos. Such a Fascinating Speaker. Your Knowledge inspires me to keep learning in my Hobby. Big fan from Australia. Nice Work. Thankyou.
Thank you. We will continue with our recovery videos. After that, we'll make breeding videos.
Charles
Thank you for posting these videos. Very interesting.
Thank you for watching.
Charles
Awesome Video. Loved the way you explain each minute detail.
Thank you. We try to be thorough and hopefully not boring.
Charles
Great upload Charles, full off information as usual, looking forward to the next, stay strong 💪
Thank you. We'll do another long video Monday.
Charles
This is absolutely amazing. I have never seen anything like this!
Thank you. We've developed our systems through decades of trial and error.
Charles
Glad to see things are getting better for you and your farm. I do have to say your attitude and approach to what happen to your farm is very good. I think I would have lost my mind. Corey did share many of your videos, and I also subscribed. Keep up the great attitude and good luck!! I will continue watching.
Thank you. We owe it to our surviving fish to stay positive and work on recovery.
Charles
agree with Dave Woods, Sir you look very well for 70,never would have guessed that Thanks for sharing
Thank you. I blame fishkeeping.
Charles
Thanks guys appreciate it have a good one
Thank you. We'll have another long video probably tomorrow.
Charles
Really learning a lot from you guys, stay strong! Sending love from Poland
Thank you. We are recovering.
Charles
So happy to see you guys started a channel have been waiting to see more on your guyses set up since the video Corey made touring your facility
It seems we had a channel about three years before I thought much about it. Cory and @aquariumcoop have been an incredible help to us. We will continue to post videos as we learn more about producing them. I say we, but mean Carl and Susie since I just raise fish.
Charles
I really like the videos and learning how your fish farm operates.
Thank you. We try to be informative.
Charles
Learned so much on your channel since AC featured your struggles. Saw the tour a year ago and was really impressed. I hope you're operation ramps back up as quick as possible.
Thank you. We are recovering and will continue to document that and produce informational videos too.
Charles
enjoying all the videos, prayers to speedy recovery of the farm
Thank you. We have more videos in the pipeline.
Charles
Awesome new vid. I look forward to your content every day 😄
I subscribed because you were in Santa Fe...NM is my home (further south).
We miss Santa Fe. Our family has a condo there. Susie (wife), the dogs, and I plan a few days there in April after we finish rebuilding breeding colonies.
Charles
I look forward seeing the progress of the farm, hope it turns out well😊
Thank you. It seems we will be able to rebuild many of our breeding colonies.
Charles
Came because of Corey When he made the video about Goliad a year ago, Stayed because of Charles and Susie. Would have been here earlier if I had known it existed. Thank you for another great informative video. I love how you let the local wildlife coincide with your farming setup. I wish I lived closer I’d have come to help all I could. I really hope your channel keeps growing. Y’all deserve it and so much more. Best wishes thoughts and prayers and good fish keeping. ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you.
I didn't really realize we had a RUclips channel until recently. Carl set up it maybe three years ago. With advice and help from Cory and @aquariumcoop we've been learning how to do this. I've found a minute of video is worth an hour of my writing. After we finish chronicaling our recovery, we'll convert my library of articles and blogs to video.
Charle
These videos are fascinating and inspiring. It's astonishing to me how quickly this system self-regulates and returns to balance after a severe insult. Very best of luck in the coming days and weeks from the UK.
Our recirculating systems are very resilient. This was the biggest test they faced and they have recovered.
Charles
Cory is awesome. And Charles you are amazing. What a great operation you run!
Thank you. Under normal circumstances it is an enjoyable operation. We are recovering.
Charles
Loved when your farm was featured by Corey on Aquarium Co-OP’s channel so much, I had to come and subscribe and watch all of your videos! Thanks for sharing so much great info! Def glad I found out about your amazing place!
Thank you. We plan to keep producing videos that we hope you will like. Cory and @aquariumcoop have been very good to us.
Charles
ive been watching you through Cory. I wish you the very best!
Thank you. Cory and @aquariumcoop have helped us tremendously. I hope to get Cory back down here for another video.
Charles
Awesome video!!!
Thank you.
Charles
Good luck guys with the recovery
Thank you. We are working on it.
Charles
A man who can probably appreciate a nice quality plastic pail
Yes. We use a lot of pails.
Charles
Great info - thanks Charles!
Thank you. The Gold Mystery Snails you gave us are doing very, very well. We're haveing to institute snail birth control!
Charles
Wow! Your greenhouse and everything else is looking so much better, the overall energy of your greenhouse and employees and yourself looks like it has improved and raised higher than yesterday. Call me crazy but there's just an overall vibrancy and warm feeling coming from looking at that. Idk. But im glad you and your business are bouncing back like a rubberbands. Keep it up up and away :)
Thank you.
We've had some time to recover from fatique and lack of sleep during the storm. Having removed the dead fish helped morale as well.
Charles
Thank you always Mr. Charles, Susie, Carl and Stormy for bringing us these incredible updates and Videos!!
The sun is shining on you guys and all of us in more ways than one!! ⛅☀️💪❤️🙏
Just an incredible seeing this plant filtration system!! I didn't realize the scuds would feed on hornwort!! An amazing plant, I enjoyed learning about the scuds and seeing it utilized at your farm!!
Y'all have a very blessed day!! Hope Fred is enjoying his new condo 🐸❤️🌿🐟🌿🙏
You about got me on counting scuds😂😂😂😂
Fred is hanging around. If I find any females of his type, I'll bring them in for him.
Charles
Thank you for the video. More please
We plan 2-3 long videos a week and several short ones. Today's was a short about Fred the Toad. It will post soon.
Charles
Hi Osso! Busy working as usual. Keep up patrolling and protecting.
Oso is busy mentoring a new German Shepherd puppy, Mila.
Charles
Very informative. Thank you.
Thank you. We try .
Charles
Great information
Thank you.
Charles
12,000 scuds going out in a day. Amazing
Last Monday 80,000 scuds, give or take one or two, were shipped.
Charles
Wow very interesting to see you processes. I accidently grew a colony of scuds I love having them!
Scuds are good accidents to have happen. But, we advise aquaponics growers to be sure to harvest frequently. If scuds over-populate, they will eat plant roots.
Charles
Just came across your channel. Will be watching a lot of the videos tomorrow. Already have several ideas to do for my fish room from this video.
Thank you. Hope we can give you some good ideas.
Charles
Love this man 🐟🦐🐠
Thank you.
Charles
I found you through aquarium co-op too. Love the new videos and Corey's video of your setup has been favorite since it came out. Hope all is well!
We are recovering. It appears we'll be able to rebuild many of our breeding colonies.
Charles
Thanks for sharing again
Thank you for viewing.
Charles
Thanks for the awesome video!
You are welcome.
Charles
I first started following you after Cory's original video a year or 2 ago and I really liked your natural looking setup. I wish you all the best in your recovery ,
Thank you. Cory and @aquariumcoop have been a huge help to us. I'm trying to get Cory to come down for a follow up video.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 Would love to see that. Keep up the great work, the fishkeeping hobby needs farms like yours more than ever.
Very interesting operation for scuds. I can see how this would be a great food spurt.
Scuds, I think along with Moina, are the easiest livefood to culture. We just started raising Moina again and will a video on them after they are up and running.
Charles
Love it that the snakes are bot the least bit impressed. And i really think the way you guy's do things is cool.
We had a lot more snakes prior to Hurricane Harvey. After that storm raccoons were able to get into the greenhouses. They ate a lot of the snakes.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 No raccoons here in The Netherlands and few snakes. In the 42 years i walk this earth i have seen the grand total of 2 in the wild. Even though i regularly take long walks in an area most abundant and am alway's on the lookout. All natavive reptiles are proteced here fore good reason.
All creatures deserve respect, even scuds... :)
Yes, they do.
Charles
wow.. so AMAZING 💯
Thank you.
Charles
It's not just Corey that is sending people to you, I'm here because Bentley Pascoe sent me.
Yes, we've seen many comments from @Bentley Pascoe fans. We appreciate y'all and the exposure he's given us, too.
I subscribed to his channel and watched a video he did about how to recover from a crisis. Go check it out.
Here's the link: ruclips.net/video/3lyMN7AnYCo/видео.html
Carl
Corey is the kindest person on earth!I’m not surprised that he’s reached out to you !I’m nobody of importance just a Obvious fish nut been keeping fish for over 35 years .learned more from Cory in one year online then I knew all that time.He’s a gem and He will bring the next generation of fish keepers To love and have much more knowledge and Understanding responsibility of the Hobby ?Don’t know more of a sharing person on u tube .God bless you Charlie in your recovery of cherished farm .Charlie I put your way up there to try to improve the species Of fish for everyone Margie B Ps I haven’t seen a video yet that you’re not all wet!
Cory has been great. We hope to have him back down in October.
I have lots of sweat glands apparently.
Charles
I just started a tank thanks to your attitude towards the hobby
Very good! Remember, you can never have too many aquariums.
Charles
great video
Thank you.
Charles
Like so many others, came because of Cory/Aquarium Coop, subscribed because of you. Love this channel and the info about the natural methods you've developed and refined. Wonderful to hear excellent science and genuine passion. Agree about submersed and emersed plants being fabulous filters, along with a very biodynamically active substrate. I only run a few tanks, but they're all densely planted and the water parameters stay very stable and very healthy without much maintenance at all. When you get back up and running, I'm for sure ordering X. variatus from you.
Thank you. Cory and 2aquariumcoop have been very helpful.
Plants and beneficial bacteria create stable, resilient fish environments.
We will resume shipping fish once we complete rebuilding our breeding colonies.
Charles
I love your greenhouse ponds
Sorry for the tardy reply.
I enjoy working in them. Lots of life, a lot that we don't control, in the greenhouses. Currently I'm having to trap and release raccoons and possums that have found ways in.
Charles
I adore gammarus in a system, on the hobby level they are the freshwater equivalent (conceptually) of copepods in a reef system.
This is an excellent video brimming with insight and knowledge, Thank You.
As a student of Agriculture and a professional in soil and water conservation, I simply adore your approach. Your system is beautiful. I wish you the best on recovery, and hope your content inspires similar system design in the future.
Thank you. Our systems have evolved over the years as we strive for reduced maintenance and healthier conditions for the fish.
Charles
You like cockroaches?
Heart breaking man. Sorry for your loss.
Thank you, but we will recover.
Charles
im from the uk , and have watched cory for years on RUclips , im a subscriber here due to his video , but staying due to your informative video
Thank you. We will try to give you reasons to stay.
Charles
I really enjoyed this video! So informative… and a lot of work just to process one order. I really admire your hard work…115°🥵
You do get used to the temperatures.
Charles
Great video! very informative. That seemed like a very generous 1000...lol
was hoping you would show the scuds in the bag, I don't know why I've seen them before...lol
We should have shown the scuds in the bag.
Charles
I love Oso! For those who dont know, oso means "bear" in Spanish.
Love your videos Charles! I flew down to Houston for my mom's funeral this weekend. I wish I had the time to come help but I only have 3 days and have to return to NY to my fish farm and the horses. Mom lived in Huntsville TX.
Oso and Maya are great dogs. They are brother and sister and were born on the farm. We named Oso after Bear, a German Shepherd we had before Oso.
Sorry to year about your mother.
What fish do you raise?
Charles
I'd love to run a farm like this in the future. Seems like a very rewarding and interesting career!
absolutely. i'll run fish farm similar like this in the future too. Good luck mate.
I love it (without, of course, the disasters) and would do it for free. But Susie (wife and business manager) insists on profits for some reason.
Charles
As soon as it gets warmer i will be placing a scud order!
We resumed shipping scuds this week. Susie is checked with our website manager (see goliadfarms.com/) about listing them again. We won't be shipping fish until we complete inventories and rebuilding breeding colonies, probably sometime in April.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 i want to just thank you for your responses! I know you are probably terribly busy!
This video reminds me I need to get a culture of scuds! Might have to make a purchase from y'all
We should start taking scud orders again next week.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 okay thanks I will have to get an order then if my weather is good. Still cold in Michigan
awesome to see, very inspirational Saludos Desde Costa Rica! :)
Thank you. We once considered relocating to Costa Rica.
My fish are salivating looking at all those scuds in the net Charles haha, that's quite a prolific system you have going! And yes I agree, let the population grow too much in a system, and they eat up everything in the column. Hope you all are well!
We are doing better.
Scuds are a great food for any fish large enough to eat them. We are starting (just yesterday) to culture Moina again for smaller fish. We'll video about them after we get them going well.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 Yes Moina (daphnia) are great too, especially like you said for the smaller fish for whom scuds will not work!
were growing two types of duckweed on and for our farm. i was reading about biofuel made from duckweed too. duckweed is one of my favorite plants.
According to one study I've read, chickens fed duckweed produce high omega-3 eggs. Duckweed is apparently loaded with those oils. But duckweed can be a problem in a hatchery unless you are raising herbivorous fish. Our scuds eat hornwort but won't touch duckweed for some reason.
Charles
Man seeing you walk by the snakes reminds me when I was almost bit by a water moccasin, cottonmouth, when I was fishing one time. Not a huge fan of snakes since then...
We see the occasional cottonmouth and until Indigos returned this year we had a lot of rattlesnakes and copperheads. Here's a blog I wrote about the Indigo:
goliadfarms.com/return-of-the-indigo/
Charles
C'mon Goliad, go live on ebay and sell scuds directly to us !!? I know I'll buy a bunch and bring you at least 5 customers myself!!!!?
Yes scuds and the hornwort!
We are looking at eBay and Aquabid. We've just yesterday resumed shipping wholesale scud orders to current customers.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 were begging you!! Please 🙏!!!! Lol glad to hear shipping is back up and running!!! Keep up all the hard work!
I'll gladly buy plants!! And hello from Burlington tropical fish club is where I learned of goliad!!
I love your videos and dream to have a setup similar to one of your greenhouses eventually. I’m only at 50 tanks in the basement LOL
Addictions start small and grow. If you need any advice on greenhouse systems like ours, just ask.
Charles
I have colonies of scuds growing in 5 gallon food grade HDPE buckets. I don't have to worry about any chemical leeching. I personally use a sponge filter from Aquarium Co-op in each bucket. The scuds love to hangout on the sponge filter. I raise scuds to feed to my aquaponics fish.
Scuds seem to like sponge filters and I've started to recommend them for aeration with scuds.
Charles
i Knows goliad farm from cory's video long time ago and loved the green houses. nice recovery btw
Thank you. We are going to catalog where we are in our recovery process in a video shortly.
Charles
Glad you are getting a generator, chances are you have many more cold winters ahead of you if the grand solar minimum is here. 👍👍
We had a generator, but it was damaged during Hurricane Harvey. The new one will handle all our pumps plus.
Charles
The only add in would be to work a metal horse trough left to be an empty green tank in your cycle, You can set it up with a hot plate and propane if the need arises to warm your gutter for sump spread and it doesn't need to be in your shack. I wish I could have helped with your entire set up, Tank to tube, The filtration model is literally no maintenance other than a settle tank drain out at the start of the system.
Our set up is pretty low maintenance. If we want green water, we simply isolate a vat from the system and green water appears. We also grow green water in a 1,200-gallon outdoor vat with Koi. It produces year round green water for us.
Charles
i saw the original tour and thought it was the coolest. dont know why YT didnt reccommend the channel. but it finally did. Condolences from Germany. damn, really sorry.
Thank you. It took us about three years and a major disaster to realize what could be done on RUclips. Cory and @aquariumcoop have helped us a lot.
Charles
I came for the SCUDS!!!
We have lots of scuds!
Charles
Good video and camera operator.
Seems there's a love hate relationship with duckweed.
I will pass that on to Carl, our videographer.
Duckweed can be a pain, but you have to admire a plant that grows so well. I think I'll place a few plants in a tank and photograph it daily to show how rapidly it reproduces.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029
that would be an interesting time lapse video.
Cuz i was at the aquarium store the other day and asked the fella there about duckweed, if it was a fad or indeed useful to eat up ammonia and he balked and said it didn't do anything for amonia and he doesn't have any and doesn't like it.
But then here in this video you say it helps with ammonia and I'm pretty sure you know alot more than him about everything. 🤣
I know this is an old post, but duckweed is an excellent feed for animals. Either dried, fermented or fresh. It is high in protein but low in fibre.
Some fish will eat it. Chickens love it. Unfortunately, scuds don't eat it.
Charles
What timing lol I literally googled scuds yesterday after finding some in my tank lol Nothing in my tank will eat them unfortunately.
Glad to see this channel growing and the greenhouses are starting to look better!
Thank you. What fish are you raising. Most everything we raise love scuds. One of our grandbrats (er...granddaughters) is feeding them to her axolotls.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 i have corydora, shrimp and exclaimation point rasbora. The rasbora aren't in the tank yet but considering how big the scuds ive seen are, I'll be surprised if the rasbora eat them!
Hello You .
Thank You
Video good .👍👍👍
Thank you.
Charles
Cory is awesome.
Yes, Cory is.
Charles
If you're curious, the snakes in the video are plain-bellied watersnakes. You probably also have diamond-backed watersnakes. I can tell you how happy it makes me to see that you don't harm any of the snakes. Thank you!
Most of our water snakes are Nerodia rhombifer. We don't harm even venomous snakes. If they are in location that is a problem, we relocate them. Recently, however, Indigo Snakes have reduced the poisonous snake population. See this blog:
goliadfarms.com/return-of-the-indigo/
Charles
Awsome as always. Do you keep fish/aquriums for show in the house?
Not a single aquarium in the house. Currently in our warehouse office I have three aquaria set up, two houses a grandbrat's (granddaughter) axolotl tadpoles and with a few almost black Red Cherry Shrimp.
Charles
Sheesh. I would buy some mulm from you, if I could. My sterile tank needs life. I ordered some scuds today, however I would like more diversity in my 20 gallon long aquarium. I just subscribed. Thank you for the nice video.
I will include some mulm in the scud bag.
Charles
ex CC pat...love to see all your critters...love the dogs water...
Thank you.
Charles
I watched the video of aquarium co op first visit and then watched the videos of the Valentine's Day storm.
Thank you. Cory and @aquariumcoop and @IFG have helped us a lot.
Charles
I know of a few shrimp keepers that dehydrate duck-weed and pelletize it for shrimp feed. Some pollen for binder, etc.
Interesting. Some fish eat it avidly, others ignore it. Our chickens, when we have them, love it.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 I've notice axolotl will eat the raw plant ravenously also (given a purchase from which to gulp); not sure if that's a learned behavior though.
As an aside: this channel is incredible! The knowledge is immense and everyone just seems so kind. Good luck to all of you!
Thanks for solving a mystery to me. Often wondered why hornwalt got thin and stringy. Scuds eating it
Scuds love hornwort but unfortunately won't touch duckweed! Although, chickens love duckweed.
Charles
At 12:40 saw the flopping fish on the ground and was like oh man it's gonna die or get stepped on and die. Then she came over and saved the little fella! Saved my head from wondering what happened!
I have not watched the video, but if I remember right, Susie saved a fish that had jumped. We try to never allow a fish to die.
Charles
I would have the same thing happen with baby guppies clinging to guppy grass which I harvested about once a week to move to my puffer tank for them to hunt the snails. The guppies adapted to the brackish water well and the puffers never bothered them. They actually helped the tank by cleaning up after the puffers ate.
Interesting. I've thought of raising some freshwater puffers. I'll have to check to see if they eat livebearer fry. Maybe another polyculture opportunity.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 I had green spotted puffers and the 2 I had weren’t aggressive at all. I’ve heard each some can be though. I fed them for free too with snails from my freshwater tanks plus sand fleas, fiddler crabs, and coquina clams from the beach. Plus leftover live shrimp from fishing.
Corey sent me:) New subscriber here.
Thank you for subscribing. Cory and @aquariumcoop have been a huge help to us.
Charles
I heard freshwater snails are good too for controlling duckweed and reducing other aquarium waste.
We raise Gold Mystery Snails on purpose and two species of Trumpet Snails, Pond Snails, and Red Ramshorn Snails not on purpose. None of them eat duckweed. Apple Snails might eat duckweed, but they are illegal in Texas.
Charles
well first of all I want to say how cool it is this man is immersed in this this is what he does. so anything he's telling you is the right information tried and tested. and I just want to say it's cool that he took the time to let us inside his head but that being said I wanted to comment on something he was talking about about collecting duckweed. there was a pond where I live and upper peninsula of Michigan and they wanted to introduce something to the pond and they needed the surface clear. and the way they had removed the duckweed that literally took about 2 hours to get all the duck weed and one place. they just took any floating sticks or any debris out of the pond that was floating. they took it was deep so they had not the 55 gallon drum but like the 30 gallon it's like the smaller one but it was bigger than a 5 gallons and they had a 5 gallon bucket it wasn't but it was the same size and I mean I guess it would be referred to as the bucket but they had a bucket and basically a 4-in pipe and a 4-in hole cut at the bottom of the bucket with the pipe attached going into I think it was like a 30 gallon drum. that was weighted down in the pond just below the water line and it just almost just sucked everything in that was just at the surface of the pond and remove the duck weed and relocated it. so large amounts of duckweed could be harvested in a day large amounts. so the oils it's biodiesel yeah that's a thing. if you can produce enough to raise an eyebrow there's a lot of abuses that oil may have if you could extract just the oil which wood doesn't sound too difficult. but I just wanted to mention that
Very interesting. I still plan to have a lab test the omega oil content of duckweed. The aquaculture industry is searching for non-fish sources. Biodiesel is also a possibility.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 well that's already a thing you know they are already take duckweed and use it as biodiesel or at least being considered
Do I see Norfolk pined growing in water? No way! Gotta be in a pot, maybe with some roots in the water, surely.... And when I order my scuds I'm going to ask for the duck weed. My koi eat it like delicious salad. Thank you for taking the time to show us how you ship scuds. I plan on placing an order in a couple of weeks! My koi love them, too.
You see a couple of Norfolk Pines, but they are on dry land at the front of Greenhouse 2. I move them into the greenhouses for the winter.
Scuds are great fish food and those that escape being eaten help clean the aquarium. I had an Australian subscriber tell me that a handful of duckweed goes for $30 in Australia. I'm rich!
Charles