coline
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Post by coline on Feb 28, 2013 2:19:24 GMT
Well, just wanted to share a culture I just started here, a Daphnia magna culture to in future feed my aquatic urticularia! These are the biggest daphnia I've ever seen!! and I think they're mixed with another smaller species, as the grower told me.
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Post by coline on Apr 1, 2013 3:55:48 GMT
Look at the story, the person who gifted this culture to me told me to feed them yeast. but I added yeast to the culture and it made such an algal growth that killed them all. But: I had another culture I luckily started at home in a 5 galon plastic tank, I feed them there the dirty water from my fishtanks, and I just took another cup of water from that one to my utricularia tank and they are now millions! In a couple of weeks! Now every day I take some and feed 1 to each CP leaf I want to feed, its entertaining lol.
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Post by adamcross on Apr 1, 2013 5:42:02 GMT
Why not simply cultivate them in with your Utricularia, and allow the plants to feed themselves? That way you'll also control algae etc in your CP tanks.
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Post by coline on Apr 1, 2013 10:42:45 GMT
Yes I do that, but a separate tank with them gives me the oportunity to take them out easily with either cups or nets without disturbing the plants. The ones that already live with my utricularia I never touch them they just reproduce exponentially!
And I have seen multiple times that having extra cultures of anything can save your life very easily (not all of them die if something hapens)
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Post by adamcross on Apr 1, 2013 11:07:38 GMT
Do you grow your utrics in habitat tanks (i.e. associated emergent species etc), or just in tubs of water?
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Post by coline on Apr 1, 2013 23:01:35 GMT
For the moment and space it is a tank of water with a layer of mineral substrate at the bottom. I have emergents, but only fishtank asociated type (in my fishtanks)
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