Re: [Killietalk] water changes for daphnia (was: Green water)

["Markus Brown" <thefishbiologist at charter_net>]

Hello Doug!

I remove my daphnia or moina from their tanks with a hose, removing water at 
the same time and add a little tank water from my recirc system to top the 
culture off. This seems to be frequent enough to keep the water fresh and 
has worked for a wile for me.

I feed my daphnia green water when I can. This is based on some info found 
in the "Plankton Culture Manual" by Hoff/Snell. This book suggest that the 
over-all nutrition of the moina is far greater after being fed algae/green 
water.

Markus

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Douglas Dame" <doug_dame at yahoo_com>
To: "killifish discussion list" <killietalk at aka_org>
Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2006 9:47 AM
Subject: Re: [Killietalk] water changes for daphnia (was: Green water)


Joe Scanlan <drkillinut at charter_net> wrote:

  >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
  Also I am sure a change of water would have
  great preventative potential.
  >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

  I've historically done relatively few water changes on my daphnia 
containers, mostly because I haven't wanted to inadvertently toss out 
bunches of the teeniest ones I can't even see.

  Is there a better method for reducing such losses than pouring all the 
out-going water through a BBS net and returning the solids to the daphnia 
container ?

  Doug Dame - SKS
  Yankeetown FL


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