Re: [GSAS-Member] More live food cultures?

["SUSAN WELENOFSKY" <welenofsky@comcast.net>]

They eat bacteria and algae. I think some tree leaves would be good, however, 
they are starting to die off right now as the weather gets colder. The little 
black specks in their bodies and floating on top of the water is their eggs. 

Susan
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Clifford Miller 
  To: Greater Seattle Aquarium Society member chat 
  Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 8:44 AM
  Subject: Re: [GSAS-Member] More live food cultures?



  Thanks for the advice-- I do have some buckets set up outside to catch
  rainwater for the garden that I had moved some of the daphnia to, but
  apparently they didn't make it...I'd left them massively overcrowded
  overnight, so maybe I had set up the entire group to crash prior to
  splitting them all up.

  Do you ever have to add anything for them, or do they seem to be able to
  feed on whatever grows in your buckets?


  >> daphnia-- also killed off in record time
  >
  > I've found that if I have 3-4 cultures going OUTSIDE, that I tend to be
  > able to keep some daphnia available at all times. These are all in 5
  > gallon buckets and those 15-18 (??) gallon rope handle plastic containers
  > I found at Home Depot. When I try smaller containers, I get more of a
  > boom-bust cycle going.
  >
  > Betty Goetz
  >
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