Re: More on Moina

[Mike Jacobs <mfjacobs@geocities.com>]

Guys........man have I been busy!!  I didn't wait this long to answer on
purpose.

I had a culture of Moina goin for about a year and a half.  Piece of
cake.  It was in a 10 gallon bare tank. every day to every othewr day I
would feed one of three things.
1)  Wheat Flour..........you find it in the normal grocery store.  Take
a pinch between your thumb and finger and put it in a small glass of
water, mix it up and throw it in the Moina tank.  It should just make it
cloudy eenough to just see through it.  This is what I feed for about a
year before I started the next two items.

2)  Green water..........no recipe needed.  Just keep the green water
coming.  I couldn't keep up the green water......couldn't produce enough
and got weary of trying!

3)  Roti-Rich........another fellow in the local club was daphnia
Magna....he had purchaced Roti-Rich and was successful so I bought some
and it's super.  It is a liquid green goopey stuf intended for raising
'micro-thingys'......the add is in the back of FAMA.....you keep it in
the 'frig and every day take 5-6-7-8 drops and put it in the tank and it
clouds the tank like the wheat flour and the next day it's as clear as
if there was a filter on the tank.

Caution.............1)  Always use OLD tank water to set up the
culture.  2)  Every 4-5-6-7 days siphon off the bottom scum and replace
with OLD tank water from a tank you are draining.  3) keep a snail or
2-3 in the tank  4) slight airation.....with and aiirstone or
something.....just barely move the water.
 
You will have enough daphnia to feed a bit of daphnia to 5-6-7 tanks
most every day.......every other day for sure.

I haven't read the literature y0ou folks have refered to but that's my
experience.

What happen to it??????????  A "friend" gave me what was left of his
culture and there was a "passenger".......HYDRA.......that was 7-8-9
months ago and I am still fighting the HYDRA and I lost the culture to
the hydra.......

Have a good day!!!


Mike