I bet they'd make good bait! There's about 10,000 species worldwide, with roughly 80% being saltwater organisms. I quite enjoy watching them move around, they're fun little critters.
@@freshflowaquatics I chopped a hole through the ice today on my pond and caught around a thousand or so. I'm keeping some in a big fish tank I have and some in a container in the fridge so I can fish with them when the ice is safe to walk on
I love my lil scud. I have one of those .5 gallon desktop aquariums that i have my culture in. I use a pipette to move some over to my aquariums. I also have daphnia and detritus worms i culture for my tanks. The more microfauna, the better, I am raising Gambusia affinis, my first generation was wild caught so im excited to see what the next few bring! I have endlers and khuli loches as well, but they prefer daphnia and pellets lol, but i did get them from a LFS, so im not to surprised. Side note: how did you get the Monte-Carlo so gorgeous 😍 ❤
That's awesome, those little critters really are a lot of fun to watch swim around. Were the daphnia easy to get established? I've been thinking about breeding them for a while. Thanks 💚 I use fairly strong lights, ferts and CO2. Otherwise I'm pretty rough on the Monte Carlo lol. I've pulled chunks out of it for other tanks so many times that it started to uproot. That's why I parted it out and replanted recently.
@@freshflowaquatics yep, they were just as easy as the scud, as long as they have detritus and dead leaf matter they grow in numbers rather quickly. They're much harder to catch so I have mine in a glass "fish" bowl with large leaves, no substrate, that way when I want to feed the fish with some, I just snag up a leaf and it always has some on it. After a day or so if the leaf is still in the tank, I take it back out and put it back into the bowl, to repeat the process 🥰 I have copepods in with the daphnia as well, I forgot to mention that. But they're so much easier than triops and fairy shrimp lol I cannot keep them alive x.x
@@volcanixthanksyoufortheviewz Thanks for sharing, that looks super easy! I ordered some daphnia over the weekend so they should be hear in the next week or so. Excited!!!
I think I had a couple of stowaways from plants. For sure my betta ate one. I'd like to get a few colonies going so my fish will have some sustenance when I'm away and isn't able to feed them.
Thanks! Full grown scuds would probably be a bit much for a guppy to munch on, but younger ones would be great. My guppies go crazy for fresh hatched brine shrimp
@@freshflowaquatics ok thank you. I'd love to have some live food living in my tanks, I'll have to research it more. Yes mine have baby brine shrimp & all-sorts of foods too 😊
@@Spacey7 Scuds are good little cleaners too! They eat detritus and algae. I did read one person say that they will reduce shrimp numbers by eating the eggs right out of females carrying eggs, but I have seen absolutely no evidence of that.
@@freshflowaquatics that wouldn't be a problem as I only have shrimp in one of my tanks. Too many bloody snails in two of them lol. I probably have some wildlife in the tanks, just not caught sight of any yet. I have put water from a natural spring in my tanks with some debris from the floor of spring stream. Thank you for the info, better than a lot of RUclipsrs 😊
@@Spacey7 the scuds would likely compete with the snails for algae and detritus. Might be worth it for snail control 🤣Happy to help and thanks for supporting the channel!
I have been wanting to introduce some into my tank, but I've heard some people say that they will eat live healthy plants? Can you please share your experience with them as far as them eating your plants. Thank you very much in advance!
Hey, good question! I've read a lot about people saying that scuds ate their plants, especially mosses but never experienced that it my tank. You can see that there's tons of healthy plants in the video. They sure did seem to like hanging out in the moss in my tank, but I never saw any signs of them damaging anything except for maybe the shrimp population. Maybe some people run into issues when they don't have any scud predators in the tanks? If they don't have the pressure of a predator constantly keeping them on the move they are able to over graze? Certainly seems possible to me but not anything I dealt with.
Oh no, sorry to hear that. I did a follow up video reflecting on almost a year or so with scuds. I did not notice any decrease in plant mass, but I did notice that they decreased my shrimp population. There was still shrimp breeding occurring, but it was far and few... A lot harder to keep up with my bloody marry genetics with such low breeding rate.
Thought I was watching md for a sec lol new sub. Awesome scape background makes it pop
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I have a pond full of these little guys we call them fresh water shrimp. I've always wanted to raise them so I can use them as bait.
I bet they'd make good bait! There's about 10,000 species worldwide, with roughly 80% being saltwater organisms. I quite enjoy watching them move around, they're fun little critters.
@@freshflowaquatics I chopped a hole through the ice today on my pond and caught around a thousand or so. I'm keeping some in a big fish tank I have and some in a container in the fridge so I can fish with them when the ice is safe to walk on
@@dylonpress7034 That's some dedication! They must be a lot bigger than the ones I got in my tank.
I love my lil scud. I have one of those .5 gallon desktop aquariums that i have my culture in. I use a pipette to move some over to my aquariums. I also have daphnia and detritus worms i culture for my tanks. The more microfauna, the better, I am raising Gambusia affinis, my first generation was wild caught so im excited to see what the next few bring! I have endlers and khuli loches as well, but they prefer daphnia and pellets lol, but i did get them from a LFS, so im not to surprised.
Side note: how did you get the Monte-Carlo so gorgeous 😍 ❤
That's awesome, those little critters really are a lot of fun to watch swim around. Were the daphnia easy to get established? I've been thinking about breeding them for a while.
Thanks 💚 I use fairly strong lights, ferts and CO2. Otherwise I'm pretty rough on the Monte Carlo lol. I've pulled chunks out of it for other tanks so many times that it started to uproot. That's why I parted it out and replanted recently.
@@freshflowaquatics yep, they were just as easy as the scud, as long as they have detritus and dead leaf matter they grow in numbers rather quickly. They're much harder to catch so I have mine in a glass "fish" bowl with large leaves, no substrate, that way when I want to feed the fish with some, I just snag up a leaf and it always has some on it. After a day or so if the leaf is still in the tank, I take it back out and put it back into the bowl, to repeat the process 🥰 I have copepods in with the daphnia as well, I forgot to mention that. But they're so much easier than triops and fairy shrimp lol I cannot keep them alive x.x
This is one of the examples I used to make sure my cultures thrived
ruclips.net/video/BsBvlsAqu_8/видео.htmlsi=C2x3to1NfCAv58-s
@@volcanixthanksyoufortheviewz Thanks for sharing, that looks super easy! I ordered some daphnia over the weekend so they should be hear in the next week or so. Excited!!!
I think I had a couple of stowaways from plants. For sure my betta ate one. I'd like to get a few colonies going so my fish will have some sustenance when I'm away and isn't able to feed them.
Good luck with that! They're pretty hardy little guys, as long as you kept them fed and the water clean they should take off.
Hi. Great video, thank you. Question, would they be too big for Guppies?
Thanks! Full grown scuds would probably be a bit much for a guppy to munch on, but younger ones would be great. My guppies go crazy for fresh hatched brine shrimp
@@freshflowaquatics ok thank you. I'd love to have some live food living in my tanks, I'll have to research it more. Yes mine have baby brine shrimp & all-sorts of foods too 😊
@@Spacey7 Scuds are good little cleaners too! They eat detritus and algae. I did read one person say that they will reduce shrimp numbers by eating the eggs right out of females carrying eggs, but I have seen absolutely no evidence of that.
@@freshflowaquatics that wouldn't be a problem as I only have shrimp in one of my tanks. Too many bloody snails in two of them lol. I probably have some wildlife in the tanks, just not caught sight of any yet. I have put water from a natural spring in my tanks with some debris from the floor of spring stream. Thank you for the info, better than a lot of RUclipsrs 😊
@@Spacey7 the scuds would likely compete with the snails for algae and detritus. Might be worth it for snail control 🤣Happy to help and thanks for supporting the channel!
I have been wanting to introduce some into my tank, but I've heard some people say that they will eat live healthy plants? Can you please share your experience with them as far as them eating your plants. Thank you very much in advance!
Hey, good question! I've read a lot about people saying that scuds ate their plants, especially mosses but never experienced that it my tank. You can see that there's tons of healthy plants in the video. They sure did seem to like hanging out in the moss in my tank, but I never saw any signs of them damaging anything except for maybe the shrimp population.
Maybe some people run into issues when they don't have any scud predators in the tanks? If they don't have the pressure of a predator constantly keeping them on the move they are able to over graze? Certainly seems possible to me but not anything I dealt with.
They make my shrimp population drop and decimate my plants
Oh no, sorry to hear that. I did a follow up video reflecting on almost a year or so with scuds. I did not notice any decrease in plant mass, but I did notice that they decreased my shrimp population. There was still shrimp breeding occurring, but it was far and few... A lot harder to keep up with my bloody marry genetics with such low breeding rate.
What a beautiful betta.
Thanks! He's changed colors a lot since i got him; he used to be mostly white.
He’s beautiful. Where did u buy him?
I love these little guy's i keep them as pets
They are fun to watch, like little sideways shrimp.