Daphnia

[bennett418]

They sell these at one of my lfs and i am thinking of buying some.

if i rinse them through a tea strainer/sieve, will it clean them enough to feed them?

 

[bennett418]

sorry forgot to put there live food

already have freeze dried......

 

[luque]

i fed my fish them a few times just from the packet (if its the same stuff because they wernt labelled but they were live food) and my fish loved them and all was ok.

 

[bennett418]

Yeah there just water fleas i think.


one of my tanks is nearly all barbs so wanna give em something interesting!

thanks for reply

 

[unspoken930]

Yeah there just water fleas i think.

Yes, Daphnia is the fancy, and probably more correct term , for water flea.

 

[jayjay]

I was bored - (taken from Wiki)

Genus Daphnia

Species

* Subgenus Daphnia

D. ambigua
D. arenata
D. catawba
D. cheraphila
D. latispina
D. melanica
D. middendorffiana
D. minnehaha
D. neo-obtusa
D. obtusa
D. oregonensis
D. parvula
D. pileata
D. prolata
D. pulex
D. pulicaria
D. retrocurva
D. tanakai
D. tenebrosa
D. villosa

* Subgenus Hyalodaphnia

D. curvirostris
D. dentifera
D. dubia
D. galeata
D. hyalina
D. laevis
D. longiremis
D. mendotae
D. thorata
D. umbra

* Subgenus Ctenodaphnia

D. brooksi
D. ephemeralis
D. exilis
D. lumholtzi
D. magna
D. salina
D. similis

I just wanted to be better then Unspoken and one stage further with the fancy, correct terms.

 

[dwarfgourami]

If you don't use them all up at once, you can keep the remaining ones in a jug of tank water and feed them with liquifry, or even a few drops of milk- I have a population going since early January, and keep getting more little daphnia.

 

[bennett418]

I have a one gallon tank i could set up for them...can they jump out?

do they need heater etc

 

[thegnu]

no they dont jump and they do well at room temp

 

[wuvmybetta]

Mine are living in frozen buckets right now,so no they don't need a heater. I would be cautious about rinsing them...they don't do well at all without aged water. One time I did a large water change on a fry tank- then fed them daphnia and the daphnia instantly dropped dead from the new water. Instantly. As in swim-swim...turned white and fell to the bottom.

 

[smurfyy_2k3]

ove had a daphnia culture since september, the live in a two gallon tank and i have a jar on the window sill with a plant in it, produces alot of green water a just tip it in the tank once a week and top up from the same tank, mine are at room temp and i just stick a net in and it leaves all the smaller daphnia and takes out the older larger daph allowing the population to continue to grow

 

[Birdie]

So how big a jug/bucket do they need? I know that's probably a bit of ahow long is a piece of string question , but would they be able to live in a litre? A gallon?
Sorry OP - I do hope you don't mind me barging in on your thread.