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Can we find daphnia in well?Daphnia are generally found in cooler climates whereas moina are found in warmer climates.
They are found in freshwater ponds and lakes. They are not found in flowing water like rivers.
Quite often there are water birds around the lakes and daphnia collected from areas with water birds can carry parasitic worms that infect fish. If you get them from a lake with water birds, culture the daphnia in tubs of green water for a few weeks and transfer the young (no adults only the young) into clean tubs of green water. Let them grow and produce young and transfer those young into tubs of green water. Allow them to grow in this tub and use these for fish food.
You can catch them in ponds with a 10-12 inch aquarium fish net that has course netting, or make a net using mosquito netting. Then move the net through the water. You will see clouds of daphnia flicking about and you simply scoop them out and put them in a bucket of water to transfer them home.
Do not have too many in a net when you lift them out of the water or they get crushed and die.
Keep their bucket of water in the shade so it doesn't get too hot.
Aerate the bucket of water gently to maximise the oxygen levels but don't make it bubble too much or they get damaged bouncing off the sides of the bucket.