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DAPHNIA PULEX & MICROFEX(dero) mini culture

Item #1486627245

Current Auction Time: Fri May 17 23:00:15 2024

		Final:	$26.00		First Bid	$25.00
		Time left	00:00		# of Bids	1 (bid history)
		Started	Feb 6 2017 - 02:00:46 AM		Location	Veneta OR 87982 United States
		Ended	Feb 9 2017 - 02:00:45 AM Auction Closed
		Seller	Food (356/360)
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		High Bidder	Zetterman (6/6)
		Payment	Money Orders/Cashiers Check, PayPal
		Shipping	Will Ship to United States Only Buyer Pays Fixed Amount,

Seller assumes all responsibility for listing this item. You should contact the seller to resolve any questions before bidding. Currency is U.S. dollars (US$) unless otherwise noted.

Description

The total cost of this auction is $25(culture) + $13(shipping) = $38. My paypal account is ryanthehut@gmail.com

I list several food culture versions, including white worms, daphnia pulex, daphnia magna, microfex, copepods, and springtails. I offer robust culture strains. Every auction is guaranteed to arrive alive one time, with a free replacement sent. You can view my culturing video on my Facebook page: White Worm Man: https://www.facebook.com/White-Worm-Man-158732174581574/

I have cultured most everything over the years. The two cultures every serious aquarist should culture are daphnia and white worms. You may find content that mention them as being a challenge, but that is because serious aquarists value them, and all topics are thoroughly discussed. Of all the things I have cultured these two offer the greatest yields with minimal effort. For this mini culture all you need to do is put a florescent light on it and it will be fine. You can also co-culture a few other things along with them.



Auction:
Daphnia Pulex & Microfex(Dero) Worms, 2 Liter Mini Culture::

You are bidding on a medium USPS priority box containing a cycled 2 liter mini culture. It will continue to produce daphnia & microfex for as long as it receives light, as the light feeds the algae and bacteria the daphnia feed upon. These are a daphnia pulex variety, and considered one of the highest producing daphnia strains. They are large enough to feed fish up to the size of adult angelfish. Copepods are in my cultures cultures for an additional food source for fry and small fish.

To sustain this mini culture put under strong florescent light for 18 hours. The light supports algae and bacteria the daphnia feed upon. This is a robust strain I culture both indoors and outdoors.

This cycled 2 liter soda bottle culture will provide your initial dose of daphnia, microfex, and beneficial bacteria, then serve as your backup culture. When you receive the mini culture, remove a few daphnia and mulm with airline tubing, and add to your culture(you can cut the top of the culture off to make pulling daphnia and microfex out easier.) If they survive 24 hours add more daphnia to your culture, and then use this 2 liter as your backup. If they don't take you can continue to harvest daphnia from the mini culture until you correct your new culture. That is the beauty of this auction - if your culture water isn't safe for the daphnia you don't lose your daphnia as you can still take them from the mini culture.

Note: Microfex don't live in these 2 liter cultures in large numbers. There will be one dozen to two dozen worms. Keep in mind these will also continually reproduce in the mini culture, just in small numbers. Remove 1/2 of the worms with a piece of airline tubing and add to your culture. I feed this particular type of culture before shipping, and it will be fine for a week or two. Microfex don't grow to large numbers in a daphnia culture as they prefer far dirtier water, but a daphnia culture 'will' support a small colony. To culture them in larger quantities you should start a separate culture of microfex, or add additional organic matter to the culture.


I often see auctions containing hundreds of daphnia. What is the difference between a bag of hundreds/thousands to a mini 2 liter culture with a few dozen?
1)The biggest benefit is this mini culture comes to you with healthy water. When you receive a bag stuffed with daphnia, the water is then polluted, forcing you to move them into your water. That is when daphnia are most vulnerable. It is actually very stupid to order daphnia that are going to come to you with polluted water, and then to risk them all by moving to your water - that is when they are 'most' vulnerable. This 2 liter mini culture shows up with its water as healthy as when it left here. If your new culture fails you still have this mini culture to continue harvesting daphnia from to be added to your culture.
2) When overcrowded, such as placing hundreds into a small bag, daphnia revert from producing live offspring to laying eggs. Starting with thousands of egg laying daphnia isn't going to help you start your culture, or make it harvestable any quicker.
3) What happens if you take thousands of non immunized humans, some of them already sick with various diseases, and put them into a sealed plastic bag for several days? You most likely are receiving a bag stuffed with unhealthy daphnia.
4) Regardless of how many daphnia you start with you still need to let your culture fully cycle. Your bacteria bio load needs to find its happy place before you should allow your culture to boon. If you allow it to boon before cycling you risk your culture crashing. Allow the daphnia population to grow slowly by harvesting early, as the bacteria, snails, and plants can't increase in numbers fast enough to handle a fast swelling daphnia population.


When ordering daphnia consider what conditions they came from. Consider temperature, water qualities(hardness & pH), and if it is cultured indoor or outdoor. My cultures are between 60 - 70 degrees being its winter, cultured indoors under florescent lights, and my water is about as middle of the road as possible.

When you receive the culture place it where its temperature will be in the 60's to low 70's. Your culture should be in that temperature range also. Pull out a number of daphnia with an airline tubing, and place them into a shot glass. You then add a few drops from your culture, over time, just like it was a new fish. When acclimated add to your culture, and if they are alive the next day you should be okay. If the initial daphnia live for 24 hours, lightly stir the 2 liter culture, remove a few cups of water(including daphnia), and acclimate to your culture. Then use the mini culture as your backup.



Culturing Daphnia
You can have a productive culture in anything from a bucket to pond, I have had tiny cultures in a glass of forgotten water. The only difference, if cultured indoors, you need to add strong lighting. If you are newish to daphnia consider culturing them in a fish tank of any size, so you can easily observe them. A 10 gallon tank works good.

Take these steps:
1) Fill the culture tank with the water from a healthy fish tank. That water shouldn't have had medication in a very long time, and hasn't had a water change in several weeks. This issue is usually what gives people the biggest challenge. If you don't use healthy water daphnia you will find them challenging. Using water from a tank that has live plants is helpful.
2) Siphon the bottom of the healthy tank, and collect enough mulm to lightly powder the culture tank bottom. This adds the initial organic matter to the culture. The mulm will continue to decay, and aid in feeding your culture.
3) Add a bunch of pond snails.
4) Add a live plant. Anacharis, guppy grass, frogbit, sylvania, and duckweed work well. I include a few plants of floating frogbit to each culture.
5) Create a small mound of natural gravel. Not the fake stuff from the pet store that is sold as natural, but real rock gravel. I use stones from the beach, or from a bag of river gravel from a garden center.
6) Add an airstone with a faint stream of bubbles. This prevents any surface film from covering the culture. Air isn't required, but if you develop film on the top you can crash your culture.
7) Add a strong florescent light for at least 18 hours. This will feed algae & bacteria that the daphnia will feed upon.
8) Keep between 50 to 80 degrees. Your culture temperature should be close to mine until adjusted. In the winter start your culture in the 60's to low 70's, and in the summer start it in the 70's. After you have cycled your culture, to increase production to high levels, you can inch the temperature into the high 70's.


Increasing yields:
To increase yields, in your larger culture, bump up the water temperature and add a tiny amount of food every few days. Be careful to not allow the culture to quickly boom, as your culture is not prepared for the sudden swell of daphnia. Continually take harvests to keep a more consistent growing daphnia population. You can select the size daphnia you wish to harvest by how large the holes in the fishnet are.

Feeding:
There is no need to feed this 2 liter culture as the florescent light is providing energy to sustain a small population of daphnia. If you culture outdoors there is no need to feed the culture as it gets sunlight, and organic debris makes its way into the culture to decay. When I do feed my daphnia I give them mulm from the bottom of my fish tanks as that adds bacteria, and vegetable & potato baby foods.


Culturing Microfex:
If you want large mircorfex harvests its best to culture them separately. Why? Microfex like water that is very organically rich, bordering on foul, so it's easier to culture them separately from daphnia. You will always have a small colony of microfex in a daphnia culture, which will supply you with small harvests, but to culture them in larger numbers its best to culture separately.

Feed them flake fish food. They like feeding on the decaying plants so I add a few plants of frogbit, a floating plant they enjoy. Microfex feed on bacteria so allow their food to fully decay. There is no need for an airstone as they inhabit oxygen poor enviroments.

They are easy to culture once you have some experience with them. They live in many of my tanks, and will colonize an aquarium if you remove the fish.

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Bid History:

Bidders		Bid Time		Bid		Comments
Zetterman (6/6)		Feb 6 2017 - 09:49:00 AM		$26.00		BUY IT NOW

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