Automatic Daphnia Feeder for Outdoor Mini Ponds
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- Опубліковано 8 січ 2022
- I love my ponds and I love live foods, but sometimes I don't want to go outside. This is my experimental method of automatically feeding daphnia to my fish ponds.
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Genius. Very cool. I've been wanting to figure out Daphnia culturing outside. A video would be great :)
I liked that part when a column of daphnia followed a light source :)
Is it just there simple minds being attracted to light? Why do they do this?
@@TIGERshanked1 Many living thing is attracted to light in water, daphnia eats algae, and algae grows where It gets enough light.
Great idea and video! You could possibly try to improve it by having a small led light (placed near the airlift) turn on a few seconds (10-20?) before the air pump starts. This way the daphnia will gather actively around the airlift and you will get more into the fish tank in less time (less water).
great idea, that would definitely work. Another thing I tried was placing a darkening cover over the middle section of the tub. Kind of had the same effect
Put an LED light by your intake tube, then run the transfer pump at night. To prevent mosquito and dragonfly larvae I would use window screen to protect the tank.
Top Darts mate.
Great food
It will be great if you can make a video of how to culture daphnia
Love this and would love to hear your method!
Would love to learn more on how you culture daphnia.
I have a 10gal tank with a daphnia culture , i feed them powdered baby fish food hasn't crashed as yet 🤞🏽
id love to get your take on how to set up a daphnia culture
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It would be great if you could make a video on how you keep your daphnia
I'd like to see that daphnia video
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Nice system. Plants would eat up those nitrates and ammonia. Use faster growing plant like pearlweed or moss. I would say guppy grass but it grows too fast. Many stem plants could be floated and grown as well.
There's actually guppy grass in the fish ponds that I bought from your fish room!
@@MakeMoreFish Awesome thanks for the support!
@@LRBaquatics is moss "fast growing plant"???
Seeing how daphnia follow the light just like artemia, i think it would be incredibly efficient and beneficial to put a light on top of daphnia intake pipe that only turns on when the pump is on.
with this method you could reduce the pump time thus pumping less toxic daphnia water to your aquariums by collecting more light attracted daphia in a shorter period. i think this is worth a shot! sorry if my english is not well spoken, its not my main language. let me know if you have any questions if you read and cant understand my recommendation.
Yep, you make a good point! I run the pumps during daylight hours so what I ended up figuring out eventually is that if I shade a wide section of the center, all the daphnia would congregate around the edges near the intakes. It actually pulled in more than I was hoping for and I ended up toning it down.
@@MakeMoreFish but you'll get less algae growth, having said that you feed with yeast so it shouldn't be a problem.
Great video!
Few questions:
The 'fish pond' tanks, are basically tubs with some gravel and plants to keep the nitrates at bay, correct?
What is the temperature you keep the tanks on?
Do you perform water changes in these tanks (at all) or is it a self cleaning system if you take out enough daphnia?
They were outside so the temperature fluctuated throughout the day. I used heaters to make sure they didn't drop below about 65F. I occasionally did water changes on the fish tubs.
I personally would like to see a grow out system that could continue to survive. I have a little cone feeder for my saltwater tank that I put some Brian shrimp eggs in and as they hatchThey can escape through the filter that keep the eggs out of the water but more often than not I put my arm in the water and it overflows it and all the eggs overflow and come out. I’m also always trying to breed Brian shrimp to where they keep producing brown shrimp for me to feed all my tanks with, that has become less of a problem since I bought a huge jar from aquarium co-op but it would still be cool too no I have to keep making more.
I am curious about the water in which daphnia lives. Do you have a test kit to measure the levels of nitrate and nitrite in this water? I recently started an aquaponic system, and while I have plenty of vegetables growing, I don't have enough fish. I'm considering using the aquaponic system to help clean the daphnia water, which would provide enough food for the fish while keeping the water clean.
Yes I've tested and found it to be very high in nitrites and nitrates
pls pls id love to know how you do your cultures. Ive done magna daphnia and managed that but are yours moinas? ive never got that going
Yep, mine are Moina for size and temperature tolerance
Hey, would you ever consider selling the scarlet badis fry when they're adults? I've been interested in breeding them for years but have been alluded by the female.
Ya I've considered it. I have to produce more and also learn to ship fish. If I can get to that point I'll announce it for sure.
@@MakeMoreFish I'll look forward to it.
Please make a daphnia video!
Video is made :)
Here is the problem I need to solve: green water in fish pond. Any thought about a system to get the green water to feed daphnia, then bring the clean water back to the pond without daphnia.
That would be tough. Maybe by using a light source to keep them concentrated in an area away from a drain but otherwise, I think that would be tough to pull off.
... how about... You set a small led over the intakes that switch on with the pumps? That way you aggregate more dafnea over the intakes and can run the pump for an even shorter time..
yep, that would work
@@MakeMoreFish I just realised that this was recommended a few times 😅.
May I ask what the purpose of that swimming cage is?
Sure, the cage is a frame wrapped in coarse mesh. There are adult egg scattering fish in it. eggs fall through the mesh and babies hatch below and swim freely in the pond.
@@MakeMoreFish Thank you!
You don't must feed yeast, there are another options!
But my like #53. 👍💚