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Russian red established culture + bag of daph. FS |
Item #1373710887 |
Current Auction Time: Thu May 16 22:56:29 2024
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Final: | $27.00 | First Bid | $26.00 | ||
Time left | 00:00 | # of Bids | 1 (bid history) | |||
Started | Jun 29 2013 - 05:21:29 AM | Location | Veneta OR 97487 United States | |||
Ended | Jul 13 2013 - 05:21:27 AM Auction Closed |
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Seller | Fishyy (199/203) | |||||
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High Bidder | Steelbird2427 (126/126) | |||||
Payment | Money Orders/Cashiers Check, See Item Description, PayPal | |||||
Shipping | Will Ship to United States Only Buyer Pays Fixed Amount, See Item Description |
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Daphnia magna(Russian Red�s) established in a two liter bottle, an extra bag of daphnia to help fill the box, and a jar of baby food. Shipping is included in price. Shipped in a medium USPS priority box.
Culturing daphnia is easy but getting a culture started gives some people trouble. This two liter gives you a continual source of daphnia to establish a backup culture(always create a backup culture if new to daphnia). If the secondary culture you are trying to start fails you still have this 2 liter to continue harvesting from until you get the hang of it.
Guarantee
Live delivery is guaranteed. For a DOA box I will reship at 'no cost' to you once.
TWO LITER CULTURING
Whatever you read on the internet about daphnia being difficult is silly. Cultures are only gravel, a piece of plant, and snails. I feed them baby food. People that think they are difficult likely didn�t follow one of the below rules.
Tap Water:
Use only water from an existing healthy fish tank that hasn�t had a recent water change, and water coming from a planted tank is even better. If you don't follow this rule you absolutely will kill your culture. Daphnia are very sensitive to additives in our tap water. Don�t use nasty aquarium water or water that has been treated with any chemical�only good aged water from a healthy aquarium only.
Air:
Heavy bubbles and current will kill daphnia. Use an airstone or sponge filter placed near the waters surface with only a faint trickle of bubbles coming out.
Feeding:
Be careful not to overfeed your culture as this fouls the water. This isn�t as important for a large culture because they can recover quicker, but for this two liter culture only a drop or two every week of baby food is plenty. A drop is a water sized droplet and not a glob-drop. As long as you have a light on this two liter culture there is little need to add much food.
Population:
Don�t allow your daphnia population to explode. When I see a large swarm I always harvest heavily from the adults from both my large cultures and my two liter culture. I use a fish net with larger holes which catches the adults and allows the young to slip through the net. A large swarm of daphnia looks cool, but it�s too much of a load on the water. Harvesting the adults lessons the load and allows more baby daphnia to grow which increased overall harvests.
When you get your box you will need to:
1)Add the gravel I include. I don�t ship the bottle with the gravel in so the daphnia don�t get damaged during shipping.
2)Place it somewhere that�s room temperature. A culture temperature in the 60's is good.
3)Place it somewhere where it gets a nice amount of diffused sunlight. A screw in florescent light on it also works great too. My two liter cultures sit on a windowsill that gets a few hours of direct early morning sunlight that is diffused through a tree.
4)Aeration isn�t needed but make sure surface scum doesn�t develop as it cuts of oxygen. If it does build up dip in some unbleached paper-towling to absorb the scum. If you choose to add an airstone place it right at the waters surface with only a trickle of air coming out.
5)If you keep it well lit you don't need to feed too often. If it wanes a bit add a drop of baby food.�a tiny drop and not a glob-drop. If the culture starts to get funky cut back on feeding until cleared up.
Once you have the �feel� of culturing daphnia this stuff is simple. If you are good with water stability culturing daphnia are very easy. I have cultures going for years that have never crashed.
Plants available:
-Frogbit: $2 per plant.
-Dwarf Water Lettuce: $2 per plant. Great for hiding fry.
-Hornwort: $2.00 per plant. A must for any killi keeper.
-Pennywort: $3.00 per plant. (limit of 3)
-Ricca: $4 for quarter size piece.
-Floating Fern (Salvinia Natans): $2 per plant.
Bid History:
Bidders Bid Time Bid Comments Steelbird2427 (126/126) Jul 8 2013 - 02:10:17 PM $27.00
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