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  • #16
    Re: Live food

    Daphnia belong to a group known as the Daphniidae, relatives of the freshwater shrimp.
    Hundreds of species exist

    Daphnia:
    An Aquarist's Guide
    Index of /daphnia/
    http://www.caudata.org/daphnia/


    Yes, with momma daphnia releasing small female daphina my fry will soon figure out that the tiny hopping thing is food.   And as the fry get bigger they will be able to eat the larger babies untill at some point they will be able to eat momma daphnia and I will have to start hatching brine shrimp.....
    'Dear Lord,' the minister began, with arms extended toward heaven and a rapturous look on his upturned face. 'Without you, we are but dust ...'
    He would have continued but at that moment my very obedient daughter who was listening leaned over to me and asked quite audibly in her shrill little four-year old girl voice, 'Mom, what is butt dust?'

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    • #17
      Re: Live food

      I have yet to find a good way to continuously grow daphnia.....
      What I do now is raise them in batches.   When the container is full I pour it through a brineshrimp net.   Some goes into a new container to start the next batch and the remainder I release into a cup of water and feed with a baby medicine dropper (bigger than an eye dropper) a few at a time to each adult betta or a whole dropper at a time to my growout tanks.

      If you have a sieve the right size you can separate the adults from the young and return the young to the culture, feeding only the adults.
      'Dear Lord,' the minister began, with arms extended toward heaven and a rapturous look on his upturned face. 'Without you, we are but dust ...'
      He would have continued but at that moment my very obedient daughter who was listening leaned over to me and asked quite audibly in her shrill little four-year old girl voice, 'Mom, what is butt dust?'

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      • #18
        Re: Live food

        I'm so glad I read this (that is until it started getting too technical for my non fish expert self).
         I've been feeling guilty since I trapped a few mosquitos that I was really ticked off at in my fish tank, then let my comet go to town on them.  Not guilty for the skeeters sake mind you, just guilty that I might make my fish sick.  
         Now I know I don't have to smash the little buggers, just feed them to the lions.....er fish.

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