Indoor daphnia

[sharkweek178]

So I want to set up an indoor daphnia tank. Just a spare ten gallon. No filter or and probably no heater. Just an airline without a stone for aeration. And a spare two gallon bucket for a backup culture.
This will be a springtime project. I don't think daphnia will survive shipment in this weather. I'll start some green water jugs now. Just used tank water in clear plastic containers with a little fertilizer added. I'll keep them by a window. I think I'll also try a spirulina powder/yeast mix. I know green water is better, but I want to have a reliable food source too.

Any advice?

 

[Uberhoust]

No advice, I am interested in how this works out.

 

[fish48]

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[GaryE]

I have managed to keep daphnia alive and breeding indoors for quite some time. What I have never been able to pull off is having enough Daphnia to feed the fish regularly. If I wanted to claim them as pets, I could. But as live food, nope.

Outdoors, it's dead easy.

 

[sharkweek178]

I have managed to keep daphnia alive and breeding indoors for quite some time. What I have never been able to pull off is having enough Daphnia to feed the fish regularly. If I wanted to claim them as pets, I could. But as live food, nope.

Outdoors, it's dead easy.

I have a plastic bin I use to collect mosquito larvae in the summer. Probably like 15 gallons. That water gets good and green. On a whim, I once ordered some daphnia and dumped them in there. They didn't do so well.

 

[MaloK]

Mosquito will like warmer water, maybe too hot for daphnia, habitually just an air stone is enough to help.

But it means you will lose the mosquitos.

I don't think both are compatible. @GaryE do you use any aeration outdoor ?

 

[sharkweek178]

Mosquito will like warmer water, maybe too hot for daphnia, habitually just an air stone is enough to help.

But it means you will lose the mosquitos.

I don't think both are compatible. @GaryE do you use any aeration outdoor ?

One of my misgivings about an outdoor culture was mosquito larvae. Not that I mind feeding them to my fish too. But I want to keep the cultures separate.

 

[sharkweek178]

Has anyone tried starting a culture with eggs?