Thank you for making me a good quality tutorial I just discovered it today when I was considering attempting to start a daphnia culture again. I've attempted it three or four times with eggs and a few more times with bags of daphnia that I got shipped from somewhere else in America. The ex never got started and all of the bags of daphnia died off. I just started my culture today, I used smoked vegetables that I microwaved and I added tank water. Now I just need to watch every tutorial on CZcams I can find in the next 2 hours. I'm hoping to find one where they convert the jar into a 10 gallon tank. And the ankle is to convert trash bags of leaves into fish food, because I spend more money on fish food that I do on upgrading my fish room.
Thanks for the tips, and thanks for presenting this info with no drama or silly CZcams edits. Love the music you use for backing tracks too, so relaxing ❤
This is amazing! thank you so much for teaching - a few days ago I saw infusoria and what looks like walter worms in one of my tanks. I read that they came from the apple snails. I also have several types of plants that could have brought them in. I will follow your instruction and see if I can culture them! Thanks again!
I've been watchong yput vidrod for awhile now and have become attached to your layed back easygoing style....i truly look to ypur content an most of my breeding projects...good stuff buddy, i look pn you as a friend and fellow hobbyist that loves what we do...thanks bro!
Thanks for the best explanation of these little guys and I didn't know, but had hoped, they're already living in our tanks and we just need to grow, and harvest them little stinkers👍😃
That's awesome. I breed a bunch of different fish from guppies to bettas and I like giving a varied diet. This is just one more thing to add to my arsenal
You are a star! You are the best at teaching and showing us how to care for our aquatic pets! 🤩 The knowledge you've shared has done a world of difference for my aquariums and I love you for it! ❤️
Thank you this tutorial. You made this seem so easy. I will be adding small shoals to this 55G once it is ready to receive the fish. Currently, I have a male Betta and a few Clean-up Crew.
Superb Mark! just trying to raise rice fish from eggs for the first time ever of raising anything. The fry are so tiny almost need a nagnifying glass to see them but you've certainly help solve my feeding worries a great deal. I am so wary of using Hikari first bites as i can't see them feed and even just putting the tiniest amount in the tank it all settles on the bottom and I don't want to overfeed or foul the water. I'm currently boiling lettuce as I write! Thanks for such a rewarding and easy listening tutorial, well done to you, kind regards, Tony. (have subbed)👍👍
Thankyou, I’ll set up a jar with ingredients today and hope that there’s some Infusoria in a few days as my sparkling gouramis have just laid eggs n placed in bubble nest last night. (Plus I’ll be able to feed it to my 6 week old peacock gudgeon fry also (still very tiny only around 6 mm)
I saw another video some time ago, another 'how to breed' video (sorry, can't link to it because I can't remember where I saw it) and the guy said that one of the best triggers to get your fish to spawn was to put infusoria into the breeding tank. The adult fish won't eat it because it is too small for them but they know it is there. He suggested that it may trigger the adult fish to spawn because they know there is food available for their fry once they hatch. Don't know if it's true or not but the theory sounds good, most other animals, birds etc time their breeding to coincide with when their food source is most abundant.
You are, the very best in my opinion, the absolute very best on U-Tube toward showing hobbiest's how to successfully keep, breed, raise, and enjoy these animal's. You are outstanding. What in the hell are you doing way over in Wales ? All that talent hidden away in the west of Britain, you should be ashamed of yourself. 🙂 Why don't you live next door; that's all I want to know. Thank's mate.
Your videos are seriously epic. I think you don’t have many subs only because you pause frequently and we end up staring at a blank screen and getting bored. But if we stick around the content is actually really great. Just please try to get to the point faster and stay at it! Love them.
In the summer I fill an old dustbin up with rain water fill it with old oak leaves and add a starter culture from from my fish shop and leave it for a month and you'll have millions of them.👍😀
Sorry to hear about Jack. I’m very attached to my fish & they all have names. The losses I have suffered have been very sad, so I can empathise with you. Thank you for your videos x
@@MARKSAQUATICS I know it was a while back, and I wanted to say thank you for normalizing mourning our fish. My CT Betta passed away while I was in the hospital with a TIA. That was really hard to come home to... no clue what happened, she was barely passed her second birthday. This was a fabulous introduction to your channel, thank you for your dedication to the detail, and to your humanity.
Thank you so much Sir for your best advice for feeding the fries. No one says how many days we have to feed infosuria but yo said for a weeks time. and we can feed other stuff later on .Thank you so much . My name is murali from chennai.,india. I am a live bearers breeder for a couple of years. But I did not try egg layers till now. On seeing your video ,now I will try ,Thank you so much .
Hi Mark, loving all these videos I've had a binge this week going through everything I want to try. My baby brine shrimp hatchery was a bit of a disaster I bought rubbish eggs and all the shells sank so could not safely feed to fry :-( My questions about infusoria are: can fry eat that until they are big enough for crushed flake or ground Betta pellets? And secondly, do infusoria need water changes or will they balance themselves out in any given body of water?
Hi Mark, thanks for another fantastic video. A couple of questions... Can the infusoria get too hot? If I put it outside (I live in Australia) it's likely to swing from 18 to 35 deg. Does it need to have an open top for air or could I just open it once a day?
Great channel, Mark. I am curious what kind of camera/lens you're using. It shows great detail. My infusoria appears to be much finer than yours. I can not see it with the naked eye; just clouds in the jar. Any ideas?
Hi Mark, quick question, if you dump maybe half the infusoria in the fry tank, would they be able to propagate enough to sustain the fry through that feeding stage or do you have to keep them separate?
Hi Mark I was wondering if you could help, I've watched a couple different videos of you making the infusoria culture and I've attempted it twice but for me it's not working I book a broccoli until soft and then let it cool in a class. I then add tank water to the near top of the glass and add a bit of java moss. I leave it on the side in front of direct sunlight. It starts to look like it's working with the bacteria bloom however even after a week the broccoli is decaying but I don't have any infusoria it's just still white and cloudy and just doesn't look like yours at all
What if dry food decades in the tank as it had happened once with me and there were several tiny white worms all over the glass... what were they and can they be fed to betta fry
Danial Zulkarnain wheat grass is another one, boil for just 30 seconds and use to feed the culture after( keep in fridge) , very low smell and you can drop in 5/9 wheat seeds a week to feed the culture...can last 2/3 months on wheat grass seed
I'm not where to post this question but I value your opinion more than any other.:Right now I have a 29ga. tank that I used to have 25 goldfish in. I have since moved them to a 55. everyone is fine. In this 29 I now have a couple of pleckos and about a dozen of pygmy cories. Is it a bad idea to add 18 silver hatchets to this tank or should I take the entire group and put them into a a 40 I have and leave the water level about b6 inches below the top
Hello Mark, I have an observation I just wanted to share: I keep a scratched up 75gallon outside which I use to store and grow my plant clippings and soak driftwood (no fish in it, no aeration and partial sun). I noticed when I took a piece of driftwood with java fern attached to it and put it in my neon tetra tank that they were going crazy, racing all over the tank; clearly hunting something I could not see with my naked eye. I am thinking that it must have been infusoria (or another type of micro life) on the plant or driftwood. Perhaps this will be a good standby if I am caught without a infusoria culture - just add a clump of plant matter from my outdoor tank?
How long does the culture last? Mine is getting pretty rank. Is it still safe to put in fish tank? Thanks for the videos. I have some zebra danio fry looking back at me from a tank now!
Hi Mark, thanks for providing these videos. I’ve had my neon tetras spawn, but wondering at what stage do I start adding the infusoria? From the first day, or wait until free swimming at day 4?
@@MARKSAQUATICS Thanks, i'll let you know how they go. Your videos inspired me to get my tanks running again. A little tricky, as our ambient daytime temps remain around 30degC. Then breeding tanks were sitting at 26/27deg.
MARK'S AQUATICS ok, great news. 4.5 days following spawning, and despite the tank hovering around 28degC, I have some free swimming fry! Unfortunately, my infusoria culture doesn’t look great after some extra deposits from a passing gecko, but there seems to be some little creatures still in there. Hopefully enough along with what is already swimming around in the fry tank and the peat to keep them growing. I could see about 6 or 7 fry so far, but will keep looking as I suspect more might be amongst the moss. Thanks for the guidance Mark, and I’ll keep you posted on progress.
Hi Mark I had a quick question. I ended up with some corydoras eggs that I wasn't prepared for and I don't have a separate tank to put them in so I put them in my shrimp tank and quite a few of them have hatched out and I was going to leave them in there until they got big enough to go back into the big tank with the parents. Would it hurt the shrimp to do something like this to help the baby corydoras fry?
Thank you Mark for the educational content. I have made few mistakes while making this culture 1. I poured the aquarium water in the jar wile the boiled vegetables were still hot 2. I forgot to add aquarium plants in the culture mix Though I kept it in the shade 4 days ago and now it's giving a pungent spell. Do you think that the culture wd be successful despite the mistakes or shall I do it all over again ?
Hi Mark, Can you tell me if it's safe to keep an Infusoria culture, and for how long? It's taken 3 weeks, seems to be blooming and will be for my Neon Tetra breeding program. I will be setting up the tank with coco peat as you can't get pure peat anymore. Will it be safe to give the wrigglers in about 1-2 weeks time, if i'm successful, with the breeding or should I set up a new culture now as this one is too old? I've been fattening up the possible female for a month now with baby brine shrimp and dried blood worms. Please help. Thanks.
hi.... how did u make that green water for daphnia......im trying to raise brine shrimp and i wanted to make some green water without starter... any ideas ?
Hiya mark, love your vids... As of today my spawning mops have hatched (Australian rainbows) But i did a culture and was getting the falling trails 2 days ago and today it is cleared but i have noticed tiny white worms.... Dutritis worms? Is it ok to feed
Thank you, i love the videos and look forward to the next...., what part of the uk are you, im in the states but visit Southampton a few times a year and would love to visit your fishroom... Thanks again for the response
Can you please make video about how to culture freshwater Rotifers? Infusoria culture stinks and I live in apartment so this not good for me. I tried and failed with Rotifers and neons larva. Thank you!
In tank, any plants that traps debris allows infusoria growth. This is why stringy plants like java moss/string algae tend to be better for infusoria production in breeding tanks For cloudy water, some books say that the first days would make the water cloudy, feed the culture when it is clear and likely good smelling
2 questions 🙋 1) So is it OK to leave it outside? My balcony is a west facing so it gets a nice bit of sun, but was more concerned about the temperature. I thought they needed heat to develop. Weather is a bit bonkers here in Ireland at the minute - 4 seasons in one day. 2) how long do these guys live for and must you keep them fed? All help much appreciated
I have been feeding my betta fry with only boiled egg yolk for the first few days, I hope I can get some Infusoria so that they get some live food before they grow larger...
I had an unexpected fry in a water change recently (tiny danio fry, not betta) and have been using egg yolk until my infusoria culture is ready. Fry were doubling in size for the first week, and since I kept adding more water (and eggs) from the parents tank, I am now raising 20+ danio fry, lol. Do you add freeze dried blood worms and other high protein/high fat foods to the hard boiled egg yolk in your blender? That has improved coloration, survival rate, and consumption of food. Also got infusoria growing in the tank😎
Just started a culture this monday. For now it smells horribly :p (I used broccoli). Allthough, I can't really see that anything happens? Am I supposed to clear the surface of the film on the surface?
For me the most detailed and easiest way to culture infusoria! Now im ready to breed my bettas 😃
You are the best that I have found !!! Thank you soo much !
This is awesome. loved it.
Thank you for putting these videos together! They are immensely informative.
Helpful video! You are an encouraging teacher, sir. Thanks for this, and other similar fine videos. Keep it up!
The most pleasant way to learn about the aquarium hobby, thanks a lot, Mark
Thank you for making me a good quality tutorial I just discovered it today when I was considering attempting to start a daphnia culture again.
I've attempted it three or four times with eggs and a few more times with bags of daphnia that I got shipped from somewhere else in America.
The ex never got started and all of the bags of daphnia died off.
I just started my culture today, I used smoked vegetables that I microwaved and I added tank water.
Now I just need to watch every tutorial on CZcams I can find in the next 2 hours.
I'm hoping to find one where they convert the jar into a 10 gallon tank.
And the ankle is to convert trash bags of leaves into fish food, because I spend more money on fish food that I do on upgrading my fish room.
Best infusoria culture video I've seen yet. Thank you for this?
Thanks a bushel, Mark. Extremely helpful and critical step in fish breeding. Exquisite pair of angels.
Thanks for the tips, and thanks for presenting this info with no drama or silly CZcams edits.
Love the music you use for backing tracks too, so relaxing ❤
This is amazing! thank you so much for teaching - a few days ago I saw infusoria and what looks like walter worms in one of my tanks. I read that they came from the apple snails. I also have several types of plants that could have brought them in. I will follow your instruction and see if I can culture them! Thanks again!
Brilliant video thanks.
Excellent Video, learnt so much. Thanks Mark
Very nice Mark. Thanks for such a beautiful video.
glad i remembered i saw you make this, got koi fry and need some for them....thanks mark
love the content dude, I look forward to your vids.
Thanks for showing how to set up a live food source.
The more I know the better I'm prepped for breeding ciclids.
Thanks again, O'dan
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Super helpful step by step guide, thank you
I've been watchong yput vidrod for awhile now and have become attached to your layed back easygoing style....i truly look to ypur content an most of my breeding projects...good stuff buddy, i look pn you as a friend and fellow hobbyist that loves what we do...thanks bro!
Thanks for the best explanation of these little guys and I didn't know, but had hoped, they're already living in our tanks and we just need to grow, and harvest them little stinkers👍😃
Another informative, helpful video from you Mark. Thanks for posting......from the USA.
Thank you for all your videos!
That's awesome. I breed a bunch of different fish from guppies to bettas and I like giving a varied diet. This is just one more thing to add to my arsenal
You are a star! You are the best at teaching and showing us how to care for our aquatic pets! 🤩 The knowledge you've shared has done a world of difference for my aquariums and I love you for it! ❤️
Thank you Maria 😊
Great new I finally got it to work and got my 1st glow eye tetra babies thanks for everything
Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge! God bless!
You're a good man thankyou!
Loved it Mark thanks!
Finally I’ve checked how to breed them! Thanks.
Thank you really enjoy you vids and you help me!
Thank you so much for your video it has really helped me a lot!
Thank you this tutorial. You made this seem so easy. I will be adding small shoals to this 55G once it is ready to receive the fish. Currently, I have a male Betta and a few Clean-up Crew.
Thank you Mark; very nice!
Super video Mark :)
Thanks for the info man ! I never knew about this tip and it will be very helpful :)
So impressive Mark.
Damn, i love this channel, thnx Mark
Thankyou !!!🙏 your a legend bro.
Superb Mark! just trying to raise rice fish from eggs for the first time ever of raising anything. The fry are so tiny almost need a nagnifying glass to see them but you've certainly help solve my feeding worries a great deal. I am so wary of using Hikari first bites as i can't see them feed and even just putting the tiniest amount in the tank it all settles on the bottom and I don't want to overfeed or foul the water. I'm currently boiling lettuce as I write! Thanks for such a rewarding and easy listening tutorial, well done to you, kind regards, Tony. (have subbed)👍👍
Best aquarium channel on youtube. Thank you
Thanks for watching 😀👍
You are simply, AMAZING. Truly a gifted soul. So glad we have your knowledge in this hobby! Thank you.
Excellent video Mark, exactly what I need to know to feed my first sextuplets of Corys I’ve managed to hatch successfully! Thank you🙏
Thankyou, I’ll set up a jar with ingredients today and hope that there’s some Infusoria in a few days as my sparkling gouramis have just laid eggs n placed in bubble nest last night. (Plus I’ll be able to feed it to my 6 week old peacock gudgeon fry also (still very tiny only around 6 mm)
I saw another video some time ago, another 'how to breed' video (sorry, can't link to it because I can't remember where I saw it) and the guy said that one of the best triggers to get your fish to spawn was to put infusoria into the breeding tank. The adult fish won't eat it because it is too small for them but they know it is there.
He suggested that it may trigger the adult fish to spawn because they know there is food available for their fry once they hatch. Don't know if it's true or not but the theory sounds good, most other animals, birds etc time their breeding to coincide with when their food source is most abundant.
that was Dean on aquarium co-op's channel, I think it might have been "how to breed Ram's"
@@mystique_tinajones4423 yes it was!
I've heard seversl others mention the trick about feeding adults micro worms or bbs to stimulate spawning...icm sure there is something go it#
You are, the very best in my opinion, the absolute very best on U-Tube toward showing hobbiest's how to successfully keep, breed, raise, and enjoy these animal's. You are outstanding. What in the hell are you doing way over in Wales ? All that talent hidden away in the west of Britain, you should be ashamed of yourself. 🙂
Why don't you live next door; that's all I want to know. Thank's mate.
thank for this info bro
appreciated.
Your videos are seriously epic. I think you don’t have many subs only because you pause frequently and we end up staring at a blank screen and getting bored. But if we stick around the content is actually really great. Just please try to get to the point faster and stay at it! Love them.
Interesting I want to know how you do with the daphnia to & are they breedable.
In the summer I fill an old dustbin up with rain water fill it with old oak leaves and add a starter culture from from my fish shop and leave it for a month and you'll have millions of them.👍😀
Thank you! Subscribed …
Sorry to hear about Jack. I’m very attached to my fish & they all have names. The losses I have suffered have been very sad, so I can empathise with you.
Thank you for your videos x
Thanks for watching Carrie. Yes it was a sad day.
@@MARKSAQUATICS I know it was a while back, and I wanted to say thank you for normalizing mourning our fish.
My CT Betta passed away while I was in the hospital with a TIA. That was really hard to come home to... no clue what happened, she was barely passed her second birthday.
This was a fabulous introduction to your channel, thank you for your dedication to the detail, and to your humanity.
Thank you so much Sir for your best advice for feeding the fries. No one says how many days we have to feed infosuria but yo said for a weeks time. and we can feed other stuff later on .Thank you so much . My name is murali from chennai.,india. I am a live bearers breeder for a couple of years. But I did not try egg layers till now. On seeing your video ,now I will try ,Thank you so much .
Glad I could help. Thanks for watching 😀👍
Hi Mark, loving all these videos I've had a binge this week going through everything I want to try. My baby brine shrimp hatchery was a bit of a disaster I bought rubbish eggs and all the shells sank so could not safely feed to fry :-(
My questions about infusoria are: can fry eat that until they are big enough for crushed flake or ground Betta pellets? And secondly, do infusoria need water changes or will they balance themselves out in any given body of water?
This retired CVT was surprised to see a TR band syringe. thanks
Brussels Sprouts? Couldn’t you use something that would stink more? 😂
Hi Mark, thanks for another fantastic video. A couple of questions... Can the infusoria get too hot? If I put it outside (I live in Australia) it's likely to swing from 18 to 35 deg. Does it need to have an open top for air or could I just open it once a day?
I hope to see this happen from my rotifers 😅 I want clouds of them like you did
I am new.
I am so sorry to hear of your loss of your water friend Jack.
Can I use this for shrimp. Thank you for your video.
Great channel, Mark. I am curious what kind of camera/lens you're using. It shows great detail.
My infusoria appears to be much finer than yours. I can not see it with the naked eye; just clouds in the jar. Any ideas?
They get bigger with time. All I use is my Samsung Galaxy S9
GREAT VIDEO we are able to see the process ,the white little worms are they from the infusoria culture
Hi Mark, I was wondering if you could do a video on breeding dicrossus filamentosus? Your videos helps a lot👏🏻
Yes if can source some I will.
Hi Mark, quick question, if you dump maybe half the infusoria in the fry tank, would they be able to propagate enough to sustain the fry through that feeding stage or do you have to keep them separate?
Hi Mark I was wondering if you could help, I've watched a couple different videos of you making the infusoria culture and I've attempted it twice but for me it's not working
I book a broccoli until soft and then let it cool in a class. I then add tank water to the near top of the glass and add a bit of java moss. I leave it on the side in front of direct sunlight.
It starts to look like it's working with the bacteria bloom however even after a week the broccoli is decaying but I don't have any infusoria it's just still white and cloudy and just doesn't look like yours at all
How long are you leaving for?
@@MARKSAQUATICS I have left it for 1 and a half weeks last time but just goes awful
Hi mark, what is the longevity of the infusoria culture? Does it exhaust/run out of 'food' at some point? can you feed it to perpetuate it ?
Nice video you have here. I would just like to clarify, are infusorias the mites-like white specks that crawl on the walls of the tank?
Hi John. Yes that's them. 😀👍
What if dry food decades in the tank as it had happened once with me and there were several tiny white worms all over the glass... what were they and can they be fed to betta fry
They were probably detritus worms, and yes you can feed them to your betta fry.
Mark I would like to know if you can grow this food under a light bulb in cold weather and do you need to keep light on it until used
Hello sir, please try lemongrass. it works well and low stink.
Danial Zulkarnain wheat grass is another one, boil for just 30 seconds and use to feed the culture after( keep in fridge) , very low smell and you can drop in 5/9 wheat seeds a week to feed the culture...can last 2/3 months on wheat grass seed
I'm not where to post this question but I value your opinion more than any other.:Right now I have a 29ga. tank that I used to have 25 goldfish in. I have since moved them to a 55. everyone is fine. In this 29 I now have a couple of pleckos and about a dozen of pygmy cories. Is it a bad idea to add 18 silver hatchets to this tank or should I take the entire group and put them into a a 40 I have and leave the water level about b6 inches below the top
Hello Mark, I have an observation I just wanted to share:
I keep a scratched up 75gallon outside which I use to store and grow my plant clippings and soak driftwood (no fish in it, no aeration and partial sun). I noticed when I took a piece of driftwood with java fern attached to it and put it in my neon tetra tank that they were going crazy, racing all over the tank; clearly hunting something I could not see with my naked eye. I am thinking that it must have been infusoria (or another type of micro life) on the plant or driftwood. Perhaps this will be a good standby if I am caught without a infusoria culture - just add a clump of plant matter from my outdoor tank?
Yes that works very well I've done it in the past. 😀👍
How long does the culture last? Mine is getting pretty rank. Is it still safe to put in fish tank? Thanks for the videos. I have some zebra danio fry looking back at me from a tank now!
Truly sorry buddy. Bettas are so interactive. And Jack was a beaut, loved his colors.
Hi Mark, thanks for providing these videos. I’ve had my neon tetras spawn, but wondering at what stage do I start adding the infusoria? From the first day, or wait until free swimming at day 4?
As soon as they're free swimming ok.
@@MARKSAQUATICS Thanks, i'll let you know how they go. Your videos inspired me to get my tanks running again. A little tricky, as our ambient daytime temps remain around 30degC. Then breeding tanks were sitting at 26/27deg.
MARK'S AQUATICS ok, great news. 4.5 days following spawning, and despite the tank hovering around 28degC, I have some free swimming fry! Unfortunately, my infusoria culture doesn’t look great after some extra deposits from a passing gecko, but there seems to be some little creatures still in there. Hopefully enough along with what is already swimming around in the fry tank and the peat to keep them growing. I could see about 6 or 7 fry so far, but will keep looking as I suspect more might be amongst the moss. Thanks for the guidance Mark, and I’ll keep you posted on progress.
Hallo Mark from Belgium!
Great fantastic video again!
At what temperature do you breed infusoria? Thanks!
Anything between 10 to 20 Celsius is fine .room temperature
@@MARKSAQUATICS thank you very much for quick answering 👍😉
Hi Mark, another great tutorial, one thing, does the container of infusoria need its own lamp above it or will natural light be enough, cheers mate.
No just place it on a window but not in direct sunlight.
Cheers Mark
Hi Mark I had a quick question. I ended up with some corydoras eggs that I wasn't prepared for and I don't have a separate tank to put them in so I put them in my shrimp tank and quite a few of them have hatched out and I was going to leave them in there until they got big enough to go back into the big tank with the parents. Would it hurt the shrimp to do something like this to help the baby corydoras fry?
The fry will be fine in with the shrimp until they're big enough.
Rest In Peace, dear friend.
Thank you Mark for the educational content. I have made few mistakes while making this culture
1. I poured the aquarium water in the jar wile the boiled vegetables were still hot
2. I forgot to add aquarium plants in the culture mix
Though I kept it in the shade 4 days ago and now it's giving a pungent spell.
Do you think that the culture wd be successful despite the mistakes or shall I do it all over again ?
it can go wrong... here the same.
Hi Mark, Can you tell me if it's safe to keep an Infusoria culture, and for how long? It's taken 3 weeks, seems to be blooming and will be for my Neon Tetra breeding program. I will be setting up the tank with coco peat as you can't get pure peat anymore. Will it be safe to give the wrigglers in about 1-2 weeks time, if i'm successful, with the breeding or should I set up a new culture now as this one is too old? I've been fattening up the possible female for a month now with baby brine shrimp and dried blood worms. Please help. Thanks.
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hi.... how did u make that green water for daphnia......im trying to raise brine shrimp and i wanted to make some green water without starter... any ideas ?
I left a bucket of water out in the sun it turned green and it has mosquito larvae too
This is basically free fry food
Hiya mark, love your vids...
As of today my spawning mops have hatched (Australian rainbows)
But i did a culture and was getting the falling trails 2 days ago and today it is cleared but i have noticed tiny white worms.... Dutritis worms? Is it ok to feed
Yes they're fine to feed to your fry. Congratulations on the fry. 😀👍
Thank you, i love the videos and look forward to the next...., what part of the uk are you, im in the states but visit Southampton a few times a year and would love to visit your fishroom... Thanks again for the response
Can you please make video about how to culture freshwater Rotifers? Infusoria culture stinks and I live in apartment so this not good for me. I tried and failed with Rotifers and neons larva. Thank you!
do you strain these guys or just add that water with rotting veg matter back into the feeding tank?
What plant is floating in the acrylic tube?
1.Will Java Moss helps as a food source for fry fish?
2. Will water pollute when infusoria culture is added with rotten water?
In tank, any plants that traps debris allows infusoria growth. This is why stringy plants like java moss/string algae tend to be better for infusoria production in breeding tanks
For cloudy water, some books say that the first days would make the water cloudy, feed the culture when it is clear and likely good smelling
Is this any good for marine fry?
2 questions 🙋
1) So is it OK to leave it outside? My balcony is a west facing so it gets a nice bit of sun, but was more concerned about the temperature. I thought they needed heat to develop. Weather is a bit bonkers here in Ireland at the minute - 4 seasons in one day.
2) how long do these guys live for and must you keep them fed?
All help much appreciated
Their better off indoors with a more stable environment. They will normally last for a couple of weeks.
I have tryed twice no to do this but my water stays cloudy all the time and then goes moldy after a week or so any ideas pls mark thanks
I have been feeding my betta fry with only boiled egg yolk for the first few days, I hope I can get some Infusoria so that they get some live food before they grow larger...
I had an unexpected fry in a water change recently (tiny danio fry, not betta) and have been using egg yolk until my infusoria culture is ready.
Fry were doubling in size for the first week, and since I kept adding more water (and eggs) from the parents tank, I am now raising 20+ danio fry, lol.
Do you add freeze dried blood worms and other high protein/high fat foods to the hard boiled egg yolk in your blender?
That has improved coloration, survival rate, and consumption of food. Also got infusoria growing in the tank😎
Can you put a lid on the jar if you have one? Or dose it need air?
It needs to be open 😀👍
Can you just add more rotting plants to keep it going or do you just start a second one?
neat! how long does a culture last? should it be in indirect light or direct?
Ashlyn Wanderer Don’t put them in direct sunlight, the water will heat super fast and can reach a very high temperature
Do you have to do the same with broccoli mark
Just started a culture this monday. For now it smells horribly :p (I used broccoli). Allthough, I can't really see that anything happens? Am I supposed to clear the surface of the film on the surface?
Do u "rinse" the infusoria first with clean water before feeding the fries? Or just straight from the culture?
No need to rinse, just add straight from the culture ok 😀👍
Do the infusoria get sucked into the filter?
Sorry to hear about Jack, they really are a happy little fishy friend to have.
Hey Mark I understand that you are most likely not gonna see this but I was wondering if you know whether or not some hygrophilla will have infusoria