Red Moina Culture. How to raise daphnia as a live fish food daphnia culturing 101 aquarium co op. Alfalfa bran and yeast are less objectionable to use and works almost as well.
Daphnia will die in tap water because of the chlorine that it often contains. 2 extract one teaspoon or 3 5 ml sample and kill it with 70 alcohol solution. Most daphnia fades with heat moina however has done well for us into the upper 90f ranges for weeks at a time.
2 extract one teaspoon or 3 5 ml sample and kill it with 70 alcohol solution.
Daphnia culture is easily possible in any non toxic water filled container at home. Unhealthy culture due to environment or insufficient food will produce moina pale in colour with empty intestinal tracts or resting eggs. For optimal production moina require a ph of 6 5 or higher a temperature between 75f and 80f and 12 to 24 hours of light per day. Moina has an additional advantage that may make harvesting pain worth the gain.
