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Indoor Daphnia. Includes Shipping.

Item #1322380803

Current Auction Time: Sat May 18 09:18:52 2024

		Final:	$18.50		First Bid	$18.00
		Time left	00:00		# of Bids	1 (bid history)
		Started	Nov 26 2011 - 02:00:03 AM		Location	Eugene 97402 United States
		Ended	Nov 27 2011 - 02:00:03 AM Auction Closed
		Seller	Fishyy (199/203)
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		High Bidder	Wolfhound39 (22/24)
		Payment	Money Orders/Cashiers Check, See Item Description, PayPal
		Shipping	Will Ship to Continental United States Only See Item Description

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Description

Auction is for a bag of an indoor daphnia strain, pond snails, and a plant sprig. This auction is for daphnia cultured inside a fish tank, at a tropical temperature, and fed baby food. Please read my instructions detailing why this may be the best food culture for you.

Live delivery is guaranteed and shipping is included in auction price. If anything happens to your culture within one month I�ll replace it for $6 to cover shipping.

You receive several hundred daphnia.

Paypal: hereorthereagain@yahoo.com


Indoor Culturing of Daphnia

Daphnia have a bad reputation as being difficult to maintain. Personally, I would rate them as one of the easiest. The reputation of being difficult is typically from people using tap water in their culture. The chemicals in fresh water will kill the entire culture. If you only use water from an existing fish tank you won�t have any problems.

Daphnia are amazing. Daphnia are baby machines and can start having babies within one week. Culturing them indoors is great because you control the temperature and conditions. Make them warm, their metabolism dramatically increases, and they become super-productive. My indoor culture is as productive as an outdoor culture.

To culture indoors you need a symbiotic relationship between daphnia and snails. It will take your culture one to three weeks to find its happy place�with enough daphnia, snails, and natural biological filtration. �Symbiotic relationship� sounds like a very challenging thing to maintain, but all that is happening are snails eating are dead daphnia and excess food. The key to culturing is aged water and snails.

I do like to keep some plants growing in the culture to help absorb �stuff� out of the water, but I can�t say whether this is important or not. It�s just something I�ve always kept with my daphnia. I include a piece of an easy plant I use.


You first need to decide which daphnia species to obtain. They are very similar so it really comes down to what size daphnia? I culture the larger daphnia so they have an easier time eating baby food. The large daphnia are a good size to feed the smallest to the largest fish in the hobby.

They can be kept in any size fish tank or tub.

An airstone helps but isn�t needed. If you have it bubbling too vigorous it can kill the daphnia. Regulate it so the bubbles only trickle out. I usually use an airstone as some of the foods I feed can leave a residue on the surface, and that will reduce oxygen getting to the water.

I feed my daphnia primarily baby food. Mixed vegetable, pea, sweet potato all work great. When the culture is new a tsp or two the first week will be enough. Once the culture swells it�s hard to overfeed. If they are overfed don�t feed them until the water has cleared a bit. My 30 gallon culture goes through a bottle every week or two. I add a few globs every few days until the water has a light tint from the baby food. Any food particles too large for the daphnia the snails will eat, and the snail poop has bacteria in the daphnia also eat.

I rarely need to do a water change on a culture. I�m dipping from it so often I have to add water every week or so. And I ONLY add water that came from an established fish tank. Ocasionally I�ll vacuum the bottom of the culture tank if it gets yucky, but the snails usually keep the tank clean.

Harvest using a fish net. This captures primarily adults as the young go through the netting.


Really, daphnia are very easy. In all the years I�ve kept them I�ve never lost a culture. Even if I did there are daphnia bouncing around in fishless tanks I could use to restart a culture. They are so easy they end up in about anything in your fishroom that has water in it.

If you have one live food culture I�d recommend daphnia. They are very easy, extremely prolific, will live in a fishtank until eaten. The most important aspect of daphnia: they are a natural food that your fish eat in the wild. They are nutritionally what your fish eat in the wild. c

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Bid History:

Bidders		Bid Time		Bid		Comments
Wolfhound39 (22/24)		Nov 26 2011 - 06:19:11 PM		$18.50

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