Re: [Killietalk] Bugs-et; was RE: Top cover (was azolla was duckweed)

[Scott Davis <unclescott at prodigy_net>]

-and where the heck do those worms you see on the sides of daphnia tanks
come from?...I don't care if you net out and isolate every single daphniaindividually, those darn things appear so long as 1/1000 ml of "daphniawater" accompanies your next culture...I'm 100% certain whatever those are, fry eat em...

KC 

Spontaneous generation? ;)


Not as efficient as you in identifying stuff, it took me several years to figure out that those long skinny ones are probably some sort of Dero or Nais worms. And yes, good fish food. (Wouldn't you know it, they seem to thrive where there is a duckweed cover. Rats!)

It took less time to credit raccoons and other varmints, wandering in from some what wet-land woods with also bringing (wearing?) in the Ostrocods, Cyclops and the not so beloved duckweed. They probably carried the dero worms in and maybe those others with the duckweed.

A really neat macro algae one year probably came in as spores on the wind.

The blood worms (hanging from the barrel sides), August mini-bloom of glassworms, a few mossies who survive the depredations of the Daphnia upon 99.9+ % of their newly hatched larvae, and the relatively rare appearance of larger predatory insects or larvae can be credited to the local "airwaves."

I have always wondered about the reports that one's killies will not eat Ostrocods. I think that those people are just feeding their killies too darn well!
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