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RUSSIAN RED DAPHNIA - Outdoor bucket cultured.

Item #1569226203

Current Auction Time: Thu Apr 25 05:22:58 2024

		Final:	$13.00		First Bid	$13.00
		Time left	00:00		# of Bids	1 (bid history)
		Started	Sep 16 2019 - 03:10:03 AM		Location	Veneta OR 87982 United States
		Ended	Sep 23 2019 - 03:10:03 AM Auction Closed
		Seller	Food (354/358)
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		High Bidder	Varietyfish (155/160)
		Payment	See Item Description, PayPal
		Shipping	Will Ship to United States Only Buyer Pays Fixed Amount, See Item Description

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Description

$13(culture) + $8(shipping/USPS priority)= $21 total.
Make payment with Paypal at: ryanthehut@gmail.com
I cannot combine orders as this fills the package and the next larger package costs about the same to ship.


CULTURE:
A 2-liter soda bottle filled with Russian red daphnia from an outdoor bucket culture. I have compared a number of different daphnia strains over the years - with this one being my favorite. They reach the size of a small pea. They are an easy, hardy, and productive strain. I culture them both in & outdoor.

Keep some of what I send as a backup:
Culturing in something as small as a soda bottle is as easy as something much larger - its just smaller proportions. Being I send a large amount of culture water keep most of it as your backup. Why? The most challenging time with daphnia is transitioning them to a new water source - we've heard all the stories of introducing a starter to a new tank and it crashing. If you keep some of what I send as your backup you don't risk loosing all your daphnia.

When you recieve the bottle gently pour it into a more usable container(a glass jar with wide lid works great), fill a couple tiny cups with culture water, net out most the daphnia and place into the cups, and then transition to their awaiting tanks. The culture water that is left over, about 1.5-liters, along with a half a dozen young daphnia, is then placed under fluorescent light at 6500 Kelvin(daylight spectrum). It will grow quickly. Then, if your primary cultures fail to start, you still have your mini culture to pick daphnia starts from.

I fed it prior to shipping so it will be happy for two weeks. If you need to keep the culture going longer add a few drops of aquarium mulm and/or banana peel the size of a couple grains of rice. You can also add small amounts of aquarium water as that will help feed the daphnia, grow the culture size, and slowly transition those daphnia to your water.


GUARANTEE:
If DOA I will send a replacement at no cost. Please don't file any claim as that usually adds additional steps for us both - just let me know and I will send another without a guilt trip.

FYI: During shipping, distance isn't a risk factor, neither is temperature if reasonable - what will kill the culture is sunlight. It's critical the box not be left in your mailbox or sitting at your door. Alert your mail carrier you have a perishable package coming and ask for them to deliver it to your door. Watch for the mail carrier as it may still be placed in the mailbox. I will send a tracking number so you know when to expect it.


HOW TO START A CULTURE:
To ensure a successful startup I recommend you start a couple small cultures. You can culture daphnia in small containers just as easily as something large - so in addition to you primary create a few mini-cultures to improve your chances of a successful startup. My favorite container to start daphnia cultures are 1-gallon milk jugs with the top cut off. Start several, use water from different sources(or aquariums), and feed each differently. If your primary doesn't take one of the mini-cultures should.

The key to a successful startup is raising the level of organic matter. Daphnia like an organic rich enviroment. It impacts the culture in two aspects.
1: The more organic matter, with the additional of light, generates the growth of naturally occuring flora & fauna. An organic rich culture, along with good light, creates enough growth of flora & fauna alone to sustain a small population.
2: Never underestimate the importance of a good cycle. A good cycle is when you have organic matter that has fully decayed and other matter in various stages of decay. The biome is what keeps your culture stable and nitrates low - so treat its well being with respect.

To build up organic matter in a new culture use mulm from a fish tank. What is mulm? It's the debris you vacuum from the bottom of a fish tank. A fish tank with fish, snails, plants, etc, will provide a well rounded organic rich mulm. Fruits & vegetables are also helpful in building up organic matter, such as cucumber, banana peel, melon, grapes, etc.

Week 1:
Any container works from soda bottles to pond liners. Lets assume 10 gallon for proportions.
Place in a location that is protected from intense sunlight.
Add water. Tap water is fine and aquarium water ideal. Taking fish out of a fish tank, dumping the entire tank into your container, is perfect.
Add 2 to 4 shot glasses of aquarium mulm.
Add 1/4 slice of fresh banana peel & thin slice of cucumber.
Gravel, driftwood, aeration, are helpful but not required. A water only culture works fine.

Week 2:
Add 1 to 2 shot glasses of aquarium mulm.
Add 1/8 slice of banana peel & very thin slice of cucumber.

Week 3 - 4:
A few days before adding daphnia add a shot glass of aquarium mulm. Add 2 to 3 daphnia per gallon. Don't add more as that immediately stresses the biome - the exploding population can strip the developing biome.

Following weeks:
Allow the daphnia population to grow slowly by taking harvests after the first week.
There is little need to feed an outdoor culture because so much debris falls into it. I add a 1/4 banana peel every couple weeks to give my cultures a boost. To boost it even further occasionally add a piece of fruit or vegetable, such as cucumber, melon, strawberry, grape, etc.

Maintenance:
There is little need to clean or change water as the gradual buildup of organic matter is beneficial - that decaying matter emits bacteria which is a natural food to daphnia. Nitrates are kept at bay because the biome grows as more organic matter is added.

Co-culture:
I recommend you add a culture partner for your daphnia. Things like snails, scuds, dero, etc, benefit daphnia by consuming organic matter unavailalbe to them. If uneaten, that organic matter accumulates in forms that are unavailable to the daphnia, and can pervert the biome & cycle. However, if it's instead consumed by a culture partner, it's excreted as bacteria rich waste which helps feed the daphnia.

Banana & Cucumber:
One of the most common questions I receive is about the banana peel & cucumber, and why I choose them over something like yeast? An outdoor culture has enough falling debris in it to sustain a modest daphnia population so it only needs a slight boost to yield large harvests. As they release their nutrients directly into the water its a food source for the daphnia to consume, as they further decay they release bacteria for the daphnia to consume, and they aid in maintaining a stable biome. Banana's are awesome because they decay slowly over several months acting like a time release food capsule. When some people make feeding daphnia sound like a science keep in mind green water isn't all that different than a cucumber slice. Yeast, though it sounds good, has it's own challenges, such as remaining suspended in the water colum, and the makup of yeast can pervert the biome much easier.


WHITE WORM MAN:
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Bid History:

Bidders		Bid Time		Bid		Comments
Varietyfish (155/160)		Sep 22 2019 - 05:09:49 AM		$13.00

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