What Supplies are Nescessary for Breeding?

[Curlyfatbottom]

Originally Posted by indjo

If you age the whole culture and after a few 25-50% water changes every 2-4 weeks, parasites will die out without a host. .... IME 1 week is adequate to avoid parasites (direct tap water + direct sunlight).

But if you immediately use them, problems do happen.

I've agree
After a few week of getting pond daphnia
I'll test them out with my fancy guppies
If they don't get sick or die in a month
I'll start to feed them to my betta
I've treat every culture the same way.
Even if it from a breeder or pond

[dramaqueen]

Sorry, Jeff. I must have misunderstood or read your post wrong. lol

[Liquid]

Where should I get jars? Jelly? Peanut butter? Or would it be cheaper and faster to go and buy little tupperware containers at the dollar store and poke some holes in?

[MrVampire181]

www.ccwproducts.com is a great place for jars.

Also thrift stores will have mason jars sometimes. I have three stores down the street that sell mason jars.

[Liquid]

How big must jars be in oz?

[MrVampire181]

32oz would need to be changed 100% daily. 64oz would need to be every other day.

[jeffegg2]

Originally Posted by Liquid

How big must jars be in oz?

Smaller Jars = more work. I see the bottles used in Thailand are about 1 pint? Lots of water changes.....

I am using 1 gal plastic jars from wallyworld.

Jeff.

[Liquid]

Just need to find a new home for my goldfish then my 30 gallon tank is open...

[Wz10]

Sorry if I'm interrupting, but how do you guys maintain your daphnia cultures? Ie what's fed and all!

[MrVampire181]

I just use a big tub full of dirty tank water with live plants, snails, and plenty of sunlight and I feed them a bit of bakers yeast. Then I scoop out my daphnia and place them in fresh clean water with IAL. Then after a few days I feed them.