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RE: feeding daphnia/moina

Moina culture is the same. 


Jim


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> Live Foods Digest     Tuesday, September 29 1998     Volume 02 : Number
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> Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 05:14:13 -0700
> From: Wright Huntley <huntley1 at home_com>
> Subject: Re: Feeding daphnia
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> > 
> > >Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 00:16:38 -0700
> > >From: ternay at dimensional_com
> > >Subject: Feeding Daphnia
> > 
> > >I am wondering what I can feed my daphnia as an interem
> > >food until I can give them appropriate food.
> > 
> 
> I have used yeast, gram flour, siphoned crud from aquaria, green water
> and any other nutrient that would stay in suspension long enough to be
> eaten.
> 
> Daphnia are unselective filter feeders, taking in any suspended
> micro-particles they can scoop up. You feed it, they'll eat it!
> 
> You can even make them somewhat nutritious by loading them with fatty
> acids and vitamins (if you make the foods into a fine emulsion in a
> blender). Cod liver oil and liquid baby vitamins might work pretty well,
> if homogenized in a blender and fed to the daphnia.
> 
> Gram flour (ground chickpeas or garbanzos from Indian markets) seems to
> be a cheap, good maintenance and growth food. Just keep enough there to
> cloud the water a bit at all times.
> 
> Use hard water, or add some form of calcium for their shells.
> 
> Wright
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