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2 liter moina culture.

Item #1376472010

Current Auction Time: Thu May 16 21:53:55 2024

		Final:	$13.00		First Bid	$12.00
		Time left	00:00		# of Bids	1 (bid history)
		Started	Aug 13 2013 - 04:20:10 AM		Location	Veneta OR 97487 United States
		Ended	Aug 14 2013 - 04:20:10 AM Auction Closed
		Seller	Fishyy (199/203)
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		High Bidder	Ghostfeather (191/192)
		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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Description

Daphnia moina established in a two liter bottle, an extra bag of daphnia to help fill the box, and a jar of baby food. Shipping is $15 for a medium USPS priority box. If you are choosing between daphnia magna or moina I recommend my magna(Russian red). The photo shows magna...moina are small and wouldn't show so I use the same photo.


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. Shipping not included in guarantee.


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.

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Bid History:

Bidders		Bid Time		Bid		Comments
Ghostfeather (191/192)		Aug 13 2013 - 09:37:15 PM		$13.00

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