BEST Live Fish Food? Beginner guide: How to Culture Daphnia at home!

Daphnia (water fleas) is one of the best live foods you can get for your fish. Learn now to culture it at home at almost ZERO COST! They are easy to keep, cheap and healthy for your aquarium fish! Daphnia Magna can live in fresh water of your aquarium for hours making them bets live food for beginner fish keepers!
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[@AquascapingCube]

Do you culture any live foods at home? If yes - what kind?

[@Al3x3-hh1jk]

I'll try with mosquito larvae.

[@AquascapingCube]

@@Al3x3-hh1jk Cool!

[@rgilroy1909]

the tiniest of springtails

[@vikkirountoit497]

Great video - well filmed and easy to follow. Yes - but currently about 80% of my live food is mosquito larvae all summer from 2 pots on back deck. I have had 2 white worm cultures for several months but one has crashed and the other is slow to produce so I don't feed from it often - haven't got that system down yet. I have a small blackworm culture that produces slow but steady and my fish love them. I have 2 daphnia cultures that I'm just starting to pull from - very fun! Oh and I have scuds too. Live food is a really fun part of the hobby for me.

[@Likearollingstone174]

Excellent video!

[@AquascapingCube]

Thank you very much!

[@h32022]

I thought culturing live foods was going to be complicated but this video was very straightforward and easy. Thanks!

[@AquascapingCube]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@katakaze]

this was such an informative video, ive just spent the past 30 mins trying to find information about changing the water of daphnia tanks but very few places have that info, really happy you even elaborated on the molting :) speaks to your experience and thoroughness. subscribed! thank you for sharing!

[@AquascapingCube]

Fantastic, thank you and welcome :) Glad it was helpful!

[@TheBeny2000]

Cool! It really looks easy…

[@AquascapingCube]

It is! :D

[@Saxonwomen]

Brilliant video thank you, I have 4 tanks & feed mostly live food of all types it costs me a fortune every week I was thinking about breeding my own I have some Dafnia & also fresh yeast going to do a jar today 😊 thanks for the tips

[@AquascapingCube]

Thank you! That is awesome, go for it!

[@angelaf8597]

Thank you! I think I will try this :D 🤩

[@AquascapingCube]

Great! 👍🏻 Have fun!

[@user-vf9iu6ku9x]

Very nice video. Thank you

[@AquascapingCube]

Glad you liked it

[@C-tip]

Nice 👍🏻

[@AquascapingCube]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@TheRavenBlack1-cw1sr]

❤

[@ItsSeriousSarcasm]

When you say you should rinse the water that the daphnia are in before giving them to fish, what do you mean? I understand that you want to avoid putting yeast in your tank, I’m just not sure how you avoid it. Thanks!

[@vikkirountoit497]

Something I do is wait to pull daphnias until water is clear from food being mostly eaten. Then I pull 25% of water along with daphnias through a coffee filter during a water change. Feed the daphnias to fish and add yeast with 25% water addition. I hope others reply for more ideas.

[@AquascapingCube]

I take the Daphnia from this container with big pipette and then pour everything through dense sieve. This way you get Daphnia on your sieve and you can rinse it with clean water.

[@miashadows]

I have white worms, scud, snails, and daphnia for my pea puffers! But my daphnia just arent producing much, I think maybe a restart would be good. Thanks!

[@AquascapingCube]

Wow, Sounds great! Thanks for sharing!

[@Luncher100]

What happens if you put daphnia in a shrimp (neocaridina) only tank. Do the shrimp manage to catch them? I know the shrimp swim sometimes, but most of the time they graze and eat stuff that doesn't move.

[@AquascapingCube]

No, that shouldn't be able catch them. Shrimp will eat dead daphnia and will definitely go for their molts, but that is it.

[@SkyfishArt]

All my wild daphnia are dying. maybe it is too hot.

[@AquascapingCube]

Yes, it's very possible. In high temperatures their reproductive capacity really goes down and entire colony might just die.

[@AK1248]

Water changes aren't really required.. specially every 2 days..

[@AquascapingCube]

Maybe, but I have much better results and stability with them. When I was testing with no water changes, my colony was half the size at best :/

[@AK1248]

@AquascapingCube I started mine 6 months ago.. the container is outside and only water change in 6 months has been when it's raining.. it's now winter here with overnight temperature lows in single digit centigrade... they are still thriving.. I'm feeding them yeast twice a week exactly how you showed it... I'm guessing different strains of daphnia may have slightly different requirements..