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DAHNIA MAGNA & MICROFEX Guarantee.

Item #1488618000

Current Auction Time: Sat May 18 00:31:22 2024

		Final:	$21.00		First Bid	$20.00
		Time left	00:00		# of Bids	1 (bid history)
		Started	Mar 1 2017 - 03:00:03 AM		Location	Veneta OR 87982 United States
		Ended	Mar 4 2017 - 03:00:00 AM Auction Closed
		Seller	Food (356/360)
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		High Bidder	Hardwarehank (78/78)
		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 $20+1(culture) + $13(shipping) = $28. My paypal account is ryanthehut@gmail.com

I list several food culture versions, including white worms, daphnia pulex, daphnia magna, microfex, gammarus, 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 discusses these cultures 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. You can also co-culture a few other things along with them.



AUCTION:
This auction is for daphnia magna and microfex(dero) co-cultured in a 2 liter bottle, and cycled for over one month. It will have a couple plants of frogbit, salvinia, and anacharis. It is a stable and productive culture. This mini culture will provide you with your initial start of daphnia, and will continue to produce daphnia in case your culture doesn't take. If the daphnia don't survive being transitioned to your culture, you can continue to harvest from the mini culture until you get yours right. If your culture takes add in more of the daphnia, and then use this mini culture as your backup.

Shipped USPS medium priority box. You pay the shipping cost of $13. Add this to your auction price.

These are a daphnia magna variety. They are one of the largest daphnia varieties, and will feed all but the largest of aquarium fish. Add these into your aquarium and they will be the center of attention. I can have the nicest looking of aquariums, and the first thing everybody asks me, is what the bouncing things are. When you receive the mini culture remove a few daphnia with airline tubing and add to your culture. If they survive 24 hours your culture is likely good. You should then add more of the daphnia to your culture, and then use this mini culture as your backup. If your culture doesn't take, you can continue to harvest daphnia from the mini culture until you correct your new culture.

The beauty of this auction is you remove the risk of transitioning all the daphnia to your water - as this mini culture will continue to reproduce for you. This isn't something stuffed with daphnia, but a naturally cycling mini culture. When you have daphnia sent to you stuffed into a plastic bag, the water is likely toxic by the time you receive it, and you need to transition all the daphnia to your water - which is one of the big risks with daphnia.


I often see auctions containing hundreds/thousands of daphnia. It doesn't matter how many daphnia you start with as they are highly productive. Ten daphnia will populate a culture in three weeks(10x10x10). This mini culture removes the risk of losing your daphnia after a transition, and gives you something productive the day you receive it.
1)When you receive a bag stuffed with daphnia, the water is then polluted, forcing you to move all the daphnia to your water. That is when daphnia are most vulnerable. It is actually very foolish to order daphnia that are going to come to you with polluted water, and then to risk them all by moving to your water. 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/thousands into a 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 sooner.
3) What happens if you take thousands of non immunized humans, some of them already sick with infectious diseases, and put them into a sealed plastic bag for several days? You most likely are receiving a bag stuffed with unhealthy daphnia.

The mini culture may not have as many daphnia, but the daphnia and water show up much healthier.



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. I usually keep a flower vase in the kitchen window with daphnia magna in it - to entertain the family. The only difference, if cultured indoors, you need to add strong lighting.

When you receive the culture place it where its temperature will be in the mid 60's to low 70's to best match the temperature they are accustom to. 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. You can then pull out Then use the mini culture as your backup.

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. Water 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 best.
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. You can also use microfex worms as your cleanup crew.
4) Add a live plant.
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 60 to 80 degrees.


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, and vegetable & potato baby food.


Culturing Microfex:
I recommend you remove 1/4 to 1/2 of the microfex worms shortly after receiving the mini culture. They don't live in as large of numbers as the daphnia, so I add a few extra worms prior to shipment. Gently suck them out with an airline tubing and add to your culture. I feed the culture prior to shipping, so it will be fine for a week or two, but it's best to try and get the microfex worms established in your culture sooner rather than later.

If you want large mircorfex harvests its best to culture them separately. Why? Microfex like water that is organic 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.

I don't add snails when co-cultured with daphnia, as the dero are the cleanup crew.

Feed flake fish food, decaying plants, fish tank mulm, etc. I add a few plants of frogbit & salvinia as dero like them. Microfex feed on bacteria so allow their food to fully decay. There is no need for an airstone as they inhabit oxygen poor environment.

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

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Bid History:

Bidders		Bid Time		Bid		Comments
Hardwarehank (78/78)		Mar 2 2017 - 08:55:41 AM		$21.00		BUY IT NOW

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