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SCUD, MOINA, COPEPOD, PLANARIA, SEED, MICROFEX

Item #1578820283

Current Auction Time: Sat May 18 00:34:08 2024

		Final:	$20.00		First Bid	$20.00
		Time left	00:00		# of Bids	1 (bid history)
		Started	Jan 5 2020 - 03:11:23 AM		Location	Veneta OR 87982 United States
		Ended	Jan 12 2020 - 03:11:23 AM Auction Closed
		Seller	Food (356/360)
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		High Bidder	Chrosomus (494/494)
		Payment	See Item Description, PayPal
		Shipping	Will Ship to United States Only Buyer Pays Fixed Amount, See Item Description

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Description

Cost: $22(culture) + $8(shipping/USPS priority)= $30 total.
Make payment with Paypal using: ryanthehut@gmail.com
My Paypal account is a business account and accepts debit & credit.
I can combine my white worm starter auction. There is no shipping savings but I will send a much larger worm culture.
Don't request an invoice unless vital to you.


AUCTION:

This is a 2-liter bottle filled from a culture that contains: scuds, moina, copepods, seed shrimp, microfex/dero, and planaria. What you receive will be about 90% scuds and moina, and the other 10% being the others. If you want heavy seed shrimp or copepods I can include a few more easily. Microfex and planaria - you get what you get as they are hardest to harvest because they are the least plentiful of the group. I don�t guarantee quantities. I make sure to include some mulm and add a piece of plant to ensure I get some of everything. There is a video of this culture on my YouTube channel.

The culture is kept in my garage under fluorescent light. These are temperate strains and will do well in places like your garage without heaters.

Shipped USPS priority mail. This ships well year round. Heat packs aren�t used as these are temperate organisms.

How do all these things live in one tank?:
These organisms don�t attack each other so co-exist without problem. What happens is the most aggressive feeders exist in greater numbers as they get more of the food. A culture culture is predominately scuds & moina because they are the best feeders. This is cultured the same as any of my other and no less reliable.

Important culture details: My pH and hardness are middle of the road. Heaters are added only during winter, set to 60-65 degrees, to prevent the temperature dropping below that on cold nights. Lit by a single fluorescent daylight spectrum(6,500 kelvin) bulb.


Backup:

All these things are cultured similarly but lets focus on culturing the moina as they are the thing most people are interested in but on the sensitive side.

If you keep moina you need to keep a backup to protect yourself from losing all your moina in a crash. Scuds are very straightforward and little needs to be explained about them, however, moina are well known for being touchy when being transitioned to foreign water, uncycled tanks, and chemicals. Personally, I don't consider indoor moina to be difficult, but they do require a feel. Being what I'm sending you is essentially a small culture, if you conserve most of the water and a couple moina, you can keep it as a small culture.

You can culture moina in as little as a few cups of water so what I ship you is already a culture. I feed it before shipping, so if you removed most of the moina, it will continue as a functioning culture for several weeks untouched.

When you receive my bottle gently pour it into a more usable container(a large glass jar with wide opening works great), fill a couple tiny cups with my culture water, net out the scuds and most the moina/moina and divide into the cups, then transition to their awaiting tanks. The culture water that is left over, about 1.75-liters, along with a dozen moina/moina, is then placed under fluorescent light at 6,500 Kelvin(daylight spectrum).

If you main culture fails to take you can take starts from this backup.


How to start a main culture:

I highly recommend you start 'several' cultures. The size of the container doesn't matter so you can easily culture in things as small as soda bottles. Instead of a 10-gallon culture consider ten 1-gallon cultures. This allows you to set up each a little different and hopefully your new moina will like one of them. Use water from different sources, water from different aquariums, start with different types of organic matter, feed differently, etc, and one of them will take. Once you have a population established in your culture they are much more robust.


The key to a successful startup is raising the level of organic matter and letting it fully cycle. That biome is what keeps your culture stable, aids in generating food for the moina, reduces nitrates, etc. To build up organics you will be adding fish tank mulm, and will start adding the foods you will be using for feedings.

Raise your organic level with fish tank mulm. What is mulm? It's the stuff you vacuum from the bottom of a fish tank. An aquarium with fish, snails, plants, etc, will provide a well rounded mulm, but any healthy aquarium mulm works. Lightly coast the bottom of the tank with it.

You will also start feeding the preculture. Foods such as cucumber, grape, tomato, all work equally well. Why feed it without moina and why things like cucumbers? Keep in mind, you aren't feeding the moina in this example, you are generating a healthy biome. Yes, decaying matter aids in feeding your moina, but the focus here is creating a stable biome. When you add a weekly piece of cucumber you end up with cucumber in various stages of decay - from raw to fully decomposed. When you have pieces of cucumber in various stages of decay you create a consistency in the biome. If your biome isn't consistent crashes occur for a number of reasons. You can substitute virtually any food - if it�s what you are going to feed your moina introduce it at the start to create stability in the biome.

So - lightly coat the bottom with fish tank mulm, and add a piece of cucumber the size of a penny for every 10-gallons.


Steps by step to create a primary culture:

Container: Use fish tanks, plastic milk jugs, buckets, large jars, etc. Anything over a couple liters is good for moina, and 1-gallon for scuds. I like to use 1-gallon milk jugs with the top cut off.

Fill with tap or aquarium water. If you have unfriendly water you may need to age it for several weeks. Aquarium water from a healthy fish tank is ideal but ensure it doesn't contain hydra.

Add a light layer of natural a couple stones deep.

Driftwood for its surface area and the scuds to cling onto.

Plants for the scuds to cling onto.

Lightly coat the bottom with aquarium mulm to increase the organic level.

Piece of cucumber the size of a quarter per 10-gallons.

Sponge filter with a light stream of bubbles from it. If your culture is small an airstone is fine.

Place under a single fluorescent tube that is 6,500 Kelvin. Put on a timer set for 10 to 20 hours.

During winter heaters are set to 60-65 degrees to prevent from dropping below that. Other than winter I don't heat my cultures as this is a temperate strain and enjoys my garage temperatures. I have backup cultures without heaters that get colder, so you can definitely culture at lower temps, but the moina & scuds I take yours have the heaters.

Allow to cycle. If using unfriendly tap water cycle for several weeks, if using healthy aquarium water you can start immediately. The longer you cycle the better. It allows unpleasant chemicals to off gas and the biome to find it's happy place.


GUARANTEE:

If DOA I will replace it at no cost. Please don't file a claim as that adds additional steps for us both - just let me know and I will send another without a guilt trip.

FYI: Your distance from me isn't an issue as this ships priority mail goes 'air' mail. What will risk your culture is if it's left in the elements. The time a box is vulnerable is after being delivered. If the package is left in the elements the odds of it dying are significantly increased. Please greet your mail carrier and take the package from them directly.

I don't add heat packs. These are a temperate strain, so shipping temperatures are normal, and adding a heat pack more risks overheating the culture.


WHITE WORM MAN:

Visit both my Facebook page and YouTube channel for a variety of culturing information. No culturing information comes with the package.

Facebook page and YouTube channel links, or search White Worm Man:
YouTube Channel: White Worm Man
Facebook Page: White Worm Man

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Bid History:

Bidders		Bid Time		Bid		Comments
Chrosomus (494/494)		Jan 6 2020 - 01:21:29 PM		$20.00		BUY IT NOW

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