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RUSSIAN RED DAPHNIA Outdoor bucket cultured.

Item #1558980626

Current Auction Time: Wed Apr 24 00:54:12 2024

		Final:	$11.00		First Bid	$11.00
		Time left	00:00		# of Bids	1 (bid history)
		Started	May 13 2019 - 01:10:26 PM		Location	Veneta OR 87982 United States
		Ended	May 27 2019 - 01:10:26 PM Auction Closed
		Seller	Food (354/358)
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		High Bidder	Serpeatetra (114/114)
		Payment	Money Orders/Cashiers Check, See Item Description, PayPal
		Shipping	Will Ship to United States Only Buyer Pays Fixed Amount, See Item Description

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

PRICE & PAYMENT:

$12​(culture) + $8(shipping)= $20​ total.
​Contact email and Paypal​ payments use​: ryanthehut@gmail.com
​ Please don't request an invoice unless vital to you.
​If you have payment made by Sunday evening your order is almost certain to ship Monday or Tuesday.​ A tracking number will be provided.


AUCTION:

100 Russian reds from outdoor 20 gallon tubs. This ​is a very easy ​​& productive strain.

Daphnia ship well year round. Cultures can be started ​with culture temperatures in the ​5​0's.

FYI: ​What I am sending you is a culture and can be kept as a culture. Being I ship priority mail, without a weight restriction, I send 2 liters of culture water​. I also feed it prior to shipment. So​ -​ if you retain most of the water, ​that will support a dozen or two daphnia for several weeks, without needing to be fed. Simply net out most of the daphnia, place them into a small quantity of the water I sent, and transition to their new home. Keep the water that remains, a​s well as ​a few daphnia, and place under strong fluorescent light or on a windowsill. If your ​new cultures fail to take you can keep picking daphnia from ​the mini culture​ I sent you​.​​

FYI: I can include additional daphnia upon request. However, unless you are stocking a pond that has predators in it, you only need a couple daphnia per gallon to get started. The amount I send is enough to start dozens of cultures. Extra daphnia during shipping diminishes the seeding capability of the water and causes them to do an increasingly amount of damage to themselves.​ ​​​


IMPORTANT CULTURING ASPECTS

There are hundreds of species of freshwater daphnia and few people truly know what species they have. Many strains, even when labeled with the same name, are likely significantly different. One daphnia may prefer hard water while another prefers softer water. For best results ​consider all strains unique, and ​match your​ water chemistry with the source. ​Consider water hardness, pH, and general culture temperatures. ​

Water: My water is middle of the road in hardness and pH.

Temperature: ​My outdoor temperatures are mild year round. Check my temperatures using zip code: 97487.​

Lighting: ​Place your culture where it receives lots of light but not so much it overly impacts your culture temperature. ​

Feeding: ​​I feed primarily boiled fish tank mulm, cucumber, ​​​and ​banana peel​.


HOW TO START A CULTURE

​Outdoor cultures can be as simple as a bucket with only water. Place your bucket in a bright location, add a dose of aquarium mulm, wait a couple of weeks for it to cycle, and you have a culture.

​ ​​Daphnia are notorious for total crashes while transitioning to new water. Once you have them established in your water they are much more resilient. I highly recommend, in addition to your main culture, you start a few tiny cultures - each with water from a different source. If your primary doesn't take one of the small cultures should.

FYI: I find it easier to start a small culture than something large. When I obtain a new strain, in addition to my primary culture, I start several cultures in one gallon milk jugs with the top cut off. Those can be placed under fluorescent light, or a place it where it receives bright diffused light. Use this to your advantage by starting off with as many cultures possible, each with water from a different source, and one of them should take.

​ FYI: What is mulm? It's the organic debris that collects on the bottom of a tank. In an aquarium it's unwanted because it causes bacteria related issues, but in a daphnia culture that bacteria is food.

FYI: There are many things you can feed to daphnia - most of it works. Keep in mind, when people start to make feeding daphnia sound like a science, a cucumber slice is just as effective​​.

FYI: ​It only takes a few daphnia to start a daphnia culture. One dozen for any outdoor culture is plenty. Being daphnia are so productive they create population booms. ​That causes nitrate issues and outpaces the growth of beneficial bacteria. It doesn't take many daphnia to start a culture...so don't be tempted to push it.


GUARANTEE:

If DOA I will send a replacement at no cost. If DOA message me and I will get another in the mail.

Distance isn't a factor in shipping - as they will be on a plane. The time a package is vulnerable is when its out for delivery to your home. If the package is exposed to the elements it's likely to perish. It's critical the box not be left in your mailbox. Have somebody home that is prepared to greet your mail carrier.


​CULTURING INFORMATION​:

​For more culturing information visit my YouTube channel and Facebook page: White Worm Man

​YouTube Link:
​https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa9dTtAQyua4TPVlPxrFfAw

​Facebook Link:
Link: https://www.facebook.com/WhiteWormMan/

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Bid History:

Bidders		Bid Time		Bid		Comments
Serpeatetra (114/114)		May 25 2019 - 05:08:41 PM		$11.00		BUY IT NOW

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