How To Culture Daphnia and Moinas using Green Water/ Spirulina powder

Best comprehensive video for culturing, feeding daphnia + water change thus far. My fishes thank you sir.

I typically maintain a steady backup culture that can live without adding anything but light in a heavy planted tank. It doesn't generate enough to produce, but keeps a plan B out there. Raising daphnia is such an easy thing to mess up, but it's generally hard to completely destroy the culture. Love the video! Maybe I can get a steadier system with some automation like your plumbing thing, I picked up an AWC/ATO could be a option!

Best daphnia video out there. Thanks for the content. Starting my culture from eggs today!

As I understand it, algae like chlorella don't need calcium and magnesium in any significant quantity but it doesn't hurt to have some extra nutrients there. With regards to daphnia and water quality, high phosphates inhibit breeding behavior but it's nitrites that they cannot tolerate - they can handle some ammonia and some nitrates but it's the nitrites that do them in. I read a study on chlorella cultivation and they had the best success with fertilizer that was 24% total nitrate, 5.1% water-soluble phosphoric anhydride, and 20.5% water-soluble potassium oxide, or 24-5-20 fertilizer, dosed at 20 grams per liter with approximately 1.2 grams of urea per liter added. Chlorella will deal with chlorine and chloramine but it will inhibit your culture. Aged tank water is ideal but you can also remove chlorine and chloramine from tap water by adding ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) at a rate of 1g per 180 liters of water. You can often find food grade ascorbic acid powder in home brew stores really cheap. Obviously, as an acid, it has the potential to throw out your pH if you use more than necessary to eliminate the chlorination so remember to be careful if you do this.

Very informative!! I overfed my moina and they all died but now I know how severe my overfeeding is after watching this video :v

I know you are making sense and covering all the important points, here. AND, you have the most productive and Sustainable indoor culture I have seen.. I have watched a ton of videos.

I’m watching this guy about 2mn and I already feel like he’s an interesting guy

It's a great idea to use change water. Thank you Bro.

Mr BW went very deep into this. Lots of cool ideas here

I can tell u first hand that plants (vegetative in particular) absolutely benefit from a longer lights on photo period. I have kept mother plants under 24/0 and most other veg plants as well

Thank you Ahn! I’m getting my culture of daphnia started soon🙂 also I hope you get more betta rubra pairs in and betta mandor please, thank you for this great video⭐️🙏

Great video

Thank you for the great information I do your method and work great thank you

thanks for sharing awesome video i subscribed

Lesson learned... and heart melted ><

Great video bro. Damn I have been very heavy on the spirulina now I no why I always crash them 🤣

I cultured Moinas by using white bread

thanks for the informative vidio

i loved this vid man you're awesome

Nice vijeo...