daphnia moina eggs culture for house auqarium tank from Russia

Description

Why is daphnia moin better?
This type of daphnia is unpretentious and quickly multiplies, and the protein in it is contained more than in other types of daphnia. Daphnia moina is not only smaller, but also softer and can be used not only as a feed for adult fish, but also as a live starter feed for fry, which is very important when breeding fish.
Daphnia moina
Moreover, this starter feed is planktonic and corresponds to the natural food for fry. For fish breeders, this food is a real find.
In fact, daphnia moina is a universal food, and its universality is that large crustaceans are suitable for feeding adult fish, and for fry of the small fry, which are always present in large numbers in the aquarium. For example, when I bred fire barbs I planted Daphnia directly in the fry in the fry. Daphnia lived and multiplied, and the fry, eating small crustaceans, grew very quickly.
Daphnia moina
It must be said that aquarists come to live food when they start to breed fish for the simple reason that adult fish can live on dry food, but as a rule, fry cannot be raised without live food.
But not only fry, but also adult fish need live food, so if your fish diet consists of live food, this will very beneficially affect their health and well-being. Fish that eat live food get less sick and do not lag behind in growth.
Daphnia moina
Such fish willingly spawn, and spawning can occur without any preparation, and even in a common aquarium. Live food has a calming effect on new fish, when the fish are still at the stage of stress and adaptation, and for sick fish this is perhaps the only food they do not refuse.
Daphnia moina breeding home
I breed Daphnia in a fifty-liter aquarium, which is illuminated by a single 20-watt fluorescent lamp. The duration of light is 8-12 hours, and the water temperature is in the range from 26 to 28 ° degrees. You need to know that the higher the water temperature and the longer the daylight hours, the faster Daphnia multiplies and vice versa.
I feed daphnia with dry baker's yeast after dissolving them in water and adding to the aquarium until the water becomes slightly turbid. When the water becomes transparent again, I repeat the feeding. I use aeration in rare cases, for example, when it is necessary to remove the film from the surface of the water or mix the yeast thoroughly.
Daphnia moina
It is best to start breeding daphnia in a small bowl, for example, it may be a liter or one and a half liter glass jar. Why should the starting utensils be small? The fact is that for a small number of crustaceans in a large volume of water and yeast, it will be more necessary, and not yeast eaten by crustaceans in time may precipitate.
Of course, there isn’t much scary here, but it’s better to maintain cleanliness as Daphnia always feels better in fresh water. The water in the jar should be from a healthy aquarium in which medicines have not been used before or for a long time, and if there is no such water, you can just do with tap water, but only without the content of chlorine in it.
Daphnia moina
Breeding daphnia mine is easy and simple, actually let me tell you and show you how to do it. I have in my hand a bag which contains the wiring Daphnia mine; it consists of a mixture of river sand and efippi.
Daphnia eggs
Ephippies are daphnia eggs. They look like small white grains that crustaceans carry on their backs and periodically dump then new daphnia are born from ephippia, by the way, that very small fry that is great as a starter feed for fry of many species of fish.
Daphnia moina
Ephippies can be seen at the bottom of the cultivator aquarium or floating in a landing net when catching daphnia. You can learn how to get Daphnia wiring in a registered letter on my blog from the publication “Daphnia fish food”.
It must be said that such a wiring was invented by me for sending it to the northern geographical areas where daphnia is not found at all, but as statistics show, all aquarists and even aquarists from neighboring countries need this live food.
Daphnia moina
We pour the wiring into the jar, gently mix it so that the sand is evenly distributed along the bottom of the jar. We leave the jar in a bright place, for example, a windowsill and wait. On the second or third day, depending on the temperature of the water, daphnia will be born.
Daphnia moina
Well, a day passed and Daphnia crustaceans appeared on the second. We start feeding.