Doug Posted October 23, 2015 Report Share Posted October 23, 2015 Hi Folks, I've tried in vain for months now to find daphnia, but with no luck. There are a few people on ebay selling daphnia cultures, but something didn't seem right. They said that they would send it Express Post, but it also said the estimated delivery time would be 4-6 days, so I'm worried that they'd all be dead by the time they arrived. Anyway, I also found a place online that sells moina eggs, so I figure that I'm going to have a go at starting a moina culture (my brasiliensis have laid mega amounts of eggs and the fry are surviving in the main tank, but for how long who knows). My question is, although I know that moina are a type of daphnia, is there any advantage/disadvantage of moina over the larger daphnia species (ie magna)? Has anyone had any luck wit culturing moina in the past? If so, please feel free to offer me any tips! Regards, Doug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grubby Posted October 23, 2015 Report Share Posted October 23, 2015 Yeah, best advice for all Daphnia SPP is to culture it outdoors. I have tried and tried in dedicated tanks indoors to grow/breed daphnia to no avail. These days I take a starter culture and throw it into a pond/bathtub that I am curing for Rainbow fish breeding and let nature take its course. I have given a few starter cultures to people lately. I'll see what I have and if all is good I might be able to sling some your way. Meanwhile I would be very interested to get the details of the people selling Mona eggs, can you please pm me. thx, Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sclero p Posted October 24, 2015 Report Share Posted October 24, 2015 Might be worth making the trip up to Lake Mac Doug. Got plenty of moina currently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
