How I Culture Daphnia In Outdoor Tubs

A few updates: 1) They did well through the summer with water temperatures peaking at 90F (the reproduction rate did slow a bit during the hottest times). 2) If you're concerned about mosquito larvae, cover the tubs with insect netting. It's cheap. 3) Moina are a different genus than daphnia. So are capuchin and macaque but we call them both monkeys. The phrase "for all intents and purposes" comes to mind, and the culture methods discussed here would be applicable in any case, excluding perhaps the high temperature tolerance.

You’re the first person I heard, who understands the fact that daphnia are hella resistant to nitrogenous waste. I’ve been experimenting with overfeeding using spirulina powder and my ammonia is through the roof yet, they’re growing much quicker than if I fed “appropriate amounts”. Although, when I overfed with yeast and spirulina, the culture would crash, and I later found out that it wasn’t the nitrogenous waste that was killing it, but the slime at the bottom of the tank, that would trap and kill the daphnia. Just feeding Spirulina doesn’t produce that slime, it produces more of a mushy detritus, and this has worked out for me.

What a great comprehensive video. So insightful . keep em coming

Very informative content sir! More blessings to you and your channel!

Amazing content as usual.

Great video....and thank you. I am thinkin of raising some this coming summer. Keep rockin!

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You have some of the best vids I’ve seen as far as real world useful info on so many aspects of the hobby. Enjoyable just to watch.

Thank you for the great information 🙂

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I’m so glad I subscribed and put notifications on, because you have yet to put a wasted video. I enjoy all your videos. Thank you for sharing.

Thank you for the video. I appreciate that you put all stages of the process in one video. So often I find videos where they set up the tank or add fish/Daphnia in this case, and that’s it. That’s what I enjoy about ask your videos. They are so well thought out

This is maybe the best video I have seen about daphnia so far. Thanks for the effort of good preparation, being consize and informative at the same time. Thanks Lowell

Great video! Thanks for sharing. Next summer I'll try my hand at keeping daphina following your video.

Really appreciate every bit of this video. It's exactly what I needed to see to get me ordering some moina. Thank you for taking the time to share this.

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This has to be the most in depth video on the internet in regards to raising Moina. Thank you for sharing all this knowledge and your personal successes/failures. My fish are quite pleased with the constant food supply of the live variety!

Nice explanation thanks for sharing

great explanation, thank you

Great info, thanks!