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Re: [Live-foods] Live-Foods Digest, Vol 42, Issue 4



Dan,

What is "Cassiopia jelly".  I have had the some of best daphia success 
with green water but it crashes frequently.

Rick Dotson

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> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:17:06 EST
> From: REDRAGON40 at aol_com
> Subject: Re: [Live-foods] Introductions
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> I am Carol Ross.  I live in SE Pennsylvania and am membership  chair and 
> editor of The Buckette for my home club, the Bucks County Aquarium  Society. I am 
> also a member of the ALA, AKA, PABS, JSAS, NJAS, and DCAS,  although I don't 
> attend them regularly.  I was also a member of PVAS until  this year.  I 
> currently am culturing grindal worms, microworms, and  fruitflies.  For several 
> years, I harvested tremendous quantities of  daphnia in an old 4000 gallon 
> swimming pool, but I have never had success  raising them indoors.  In the summer, I 
> harvest mosquito larvae (in a four  bucket system that almost guarantees no 
> escapees), and raise daphnia in a 100  gallon tub.  
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> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:25:27 EST
> From: REDRAGON40 at aol_com
> Subject: Re: [Live-foods] Unsuccesful worms
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> I never heard of banana worms, but I have had the experience that micros  and 
> walters tend to crash quickly if not ventilated daily.  You could try  
> setting up new cultures in deli containers, punching small holes in the lid, or  
> opening and fanning the cultures every day.  A friend of mine keeps open  top 
> cultures in a pillowcase to prevent invasion by fruit flies and other  bugs.  She 
> says the production is tremendous. I plan to put two open top  cultures in an 
> aquarium and cover the aquarium with a piece of old sheet to see  how that 
> works.
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> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:08:22 -0800 (PST)
> From: William Maier <dreammaker2623 at yahoo_com>
> Subject: Re: [Live-foods] Live-Foods Digest, Vol 42, Issue 3
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>      I admit that I have been a lurker around here. I have only been in this great hobby for a little over 55 years and have been the president of an aquarium club (In the past) for over 20 years and am now a member of twp aquarium clubs here in Western Taxachussetts and Connecticut.
>        I have built a couple of fish rooms in the past and will be building one again as soon as I can afford to. My cash flow is flowing faster out than is right now LOL.
>        Right now I only have daphnia growing for live foods but when I get my fish room going I will put in a tank of either dwarf pike cichlids or leaf fish (the culls will be live foods for them).I am planning on raising American cichlids (especially the smaller ones and also Altum Angelfish (I have a 150 gallon tank that will be set up for them. I will then be growing several types of live foods for the fry. Hopefully it will not take too much longer to get started on my fish room. 
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> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:18:25 -0800 (PST)
> From: Dan McMonigle <daphnia at sbcglobal_net>
> Subject: [Live-foods] Daphnia
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> Daphnia does seem to be one of the best live foods. It can be enhanced by what it eats. I feed mine a mix of peas, beets, paprika and a human vitamin tablet for seniors. I blend it in a Vitamix to get the right size particles. Household blender tend to wear out every couple months when used to produce this food. The daphnia food also works great to moisten microworm cultures. The worms turn a yellow color but lose it if they are floating in the fry tank uneaten. Microwoms have an advantage for fry like corydoras that tend to stay near the bottom. Rotifers are truly better than brine for fry with very small mouths, and for others too! The marine rotifers stay alive long enough in fresh water to be eaten. One key to mass production of rotifers is the sessile generation of the Cassiopia jelly.They eat every rotifer so they are great to keep the green water cultures pure.  
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