Question for those of you who grow your own live foods.
I seeded my ember tetra tank with Daphnia and Tubifex long before adding fish and shrimp.
I add spirulina powder to the tank every few days to sustain the daphnia. Initially the tetras ignored the daphnia completely as they were possibly too big for them. The tetras were really tiny when I got them. Now they do pick off a few but tend to go for the babies.
In the past week the daphnia have bred like crazy and the water is full of them. Should I syphon some off? At what point does the culture crash?
Tank isn’t filtered other than a fluval breeding box filled with gravel, hydroleca and plants. The water trickles through it slowly.
Heater is off but still in the tank
Light is an IKEA desklamp with a 4w daylight led bulb.
Water is murky as I just fed the daphnia
I seeded my ember tetra tank with Daphnia and Tubifex long before adding fish and shrimp.
I add spirulina powder to the tank every few days to sustain the daphnia. Initially the tetras ignored the daphnia completely as they were possibly too big for them. The tetras were really tiny when I got them. Now they do pick off a few but tend to go for the babies.
In the past week the daphnia have bred like crazy and the water is full of them. Should I syphon some off? At what point does the culture crash?
Tank isn’t filtered other than a fluval breeding box filled with gravel, hydroleca and plants. The water trickles through it slowly.
Heater is off but still in the tank
Light is an IKEA desklamp with a 4w daylight led bulb.
Water is murky as I just fed the daphnia
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