Don't eat Daphnia, brine shrimp, mosquito larvae or bloodworms as they don't taste very nice. Had a blonde hungover moment and fed my fish live food (way too much) then an hour later decide I should try and siphon out some of it, using the good old suck on the end of a pipe to get the flow started. I could only find a 1litre container and so that was alot of sucking on the end of a hose and although not purposefully I did end up with quite a few critters crawling around in the back of my mouth 
and undoubtedly swallowed quite a number.
So I have tried to start 2 spur of the moment cultures of the various live foods that I siphoned out of the tank. One sample is in a 15litre bucket with 3 week old rain water from the water butt so again is x amount of time old. The culture is a mixed bag of live foods from what I identified where the previously mentioned species. The bucket is in the sun for approx 6 hours of the day and I have crushed up a little mix of both tropical and pond fish food and sprinkeled it in.
The second culture is my pond which is 70 gallons IIRC and is in the sun from dawn until dusk and its au naturel with no electronics/ simple filters all I do is add flake food every day and clear out the muck every so often. The species that I know about living in there are; newts, frogs, goldfish, goldfish fry and what I assume are leeches god knows how they got in. The pond is heavily planted with hair algae lol and a few lillies which don't seem to of reacted to the warmer weather yet so I assume are dying which is fine as they are 15+ years old.
Can't seem to find much info on weather these cultures will survive in an English pond...... If they don't its no worries. Surprisingly my goldfish didn't react to the addition of the live food although I had fed them with flake an hour earlier, there is also a large quantity of the wrigglers so there numbers can be lost through attrition and there would still be a very large culture.
Final culture atm is my aquarium as there is still tons of bloodworms in there which are being slowly one by one eaten by the shrimp and assassin snail apeared to be in a duel with one which was rather strange to watch.
and undoubtedly swallowed quite a number. So I have tried to start 2 spur of the moment cultures of the various live foods that I siphoned out of the tank. One sample is in a 15litre bucket with 3 week old rain water from the water butt so again is x amount of time old. The culture is a mixed bag of live foods from what I identified where the previously mentioned species. The bucket is in the sun for approx 6 hours of the day and I have crushed up a little mix of both tropical and pond fish food and sprinkeled it in.
The second culture is my pond which is 70 gallons IIRC and is in the sun from dawn until dusk and its au naturel with no electronics/ simple filters all I do is add flake food every day and clear out the muck every so often. The species that I know about living in there are; newts, frogs, goldfish, goldfish fry and what I assume are leeches god knows how they got in. The pond is heavily planted with hair algae lol and a few lillies which don't seem to of reacted to the warmer weather yet so I assume are dying which is fine as they are 15+ years old.
Can't seem to find much info on weather these cultures will survive in an English pond...... If they don't its no worries. Surprisingly my goldfish didn't react to the addition of the live food although I had fed them with flake an hour earlier, there is also a large quantity of the wrigglers so there numbers can be lost through attrition and there would still be a very large culture.
Final culture atm is my aquarium as there is still tons of bloodworms in there which are being slowly one by one eaten by the shrimp and assassin snail apeared to be in a duel with one which was rather strange to watch.
Unfortunately, I too have had that experience, although never with live food. Note to self: fish food apparently doesn't taste good.
!!! Aren't there some fish diseases that can be contracted by humans? Fish tubercolosis springs to memory as one I've read on the web that is transferable?... And to suck on daphnia really sucks 
Less water isn't a bad idea at all, I always seem to get drips... heehee
) I hate it when the tube knocks over the decorations and it takes forever to get them back the way they were. ugh!
