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If you want to learn more about how to care for a daphnia culture, check out this article: www.aquariumcoop.com/blogs/aquarium/daphnia-cultur…

Daphnia are members of the order Cladocera, and are one of the several small aquatic crustaceans commonly called water fleas because their saltatory swimming style resembles the movements of fleas.

I had these hatch out in my betta tank one summer, and decided to culture some myself! It was easy , I didn’t continue through winter, but definitely will start again.

That shirt is pretty slick.. i like the green. Loved all the broll shots too

I’ll be trying this next week! Backyard aquatics will be instructing me!

I got some by accident. I put some soil from outside in a tank for my fairy shrimp substrate. And it started with one. I was like, oh whats that little thing? Then there were 3. Then they started taking over. Turkey basted them out (as many as i could. They are fast) and put them in a container with some green water i had in the windowsill. Now that little container is filling up with these little things. I do nothing but watch them bop around. Great video and great shirt!

Great feeding video footage! Wow your fish are beautiful! What a treat for them!

Thanks for the straight forward explanation! It’s been hard finding a video that explains exactly how to get a culture really going! Thanks again!

So informative, thank you for sharing!

I have wintered over daphnia outside in an above ground tub, in IOWA. Their life cycle is amazing, and the way I understand it, basically spring starts out with all females that hatch from eggs, then clone themselves all summer, then the shortening of day light and cooling temps, cause males to occur, and the females produce eggs that survive the winter - starting the cycle again - The first year I had the tub outside, I have a video of late DEC when I still had somewhat mild weather, nights below freezing, but Daphnia still swimming in the water!

I put a 80G tank outside. I let the mosquitoes do the work for me. After a few days i harvest the larvae and toss it in my tanks. My tiger barbs go crazy for it!

Am i the only one that doesnt get notifications? Now i gotta binge watch lol

Thanks! Nice to see bumble bee gobies. Love those little guys. Haven't seen them in 30 years.

I also keep a small pool for daphnia and I also put a tub of water out for mosquitos to lay eggs on and use the larvae as fish food.

I like the OD green. Yuuut! I can't seem keep daphnia alive, but can luckily collect easy enough.

Thanks, good informative video.

thanks for the information, going to start my own culture now

Great video! I'd totally forgotten about daphnia... now I'm on it. Miss that beard bro!

Very informative, enjoyed the video

Really helpful thank you!