Red Moina Culture. Pay attention to the colour intestinal tracts and movement. Most daphnia fades with heat moina however has done well for us into the upper 90f ranges for weeks at a time.
Moina has an extraordinary ability to withstand normal heat of summer and stay in production. 2 extract one teaspoon or 3 5 ml sample and kill it with 70 alcohol solution. Use a five to twenty gallon 18 92 75 70 l plastic tub or aquarium to house your daphnia cultures.
Once your tank is set up you can acclimatize and add you starter culture.
Daphnia culture is easily possible in any non toxic water filled container at home. Daphnia are a tiny freshwater crustacean that you can easily culture at home and feed as a nutritious live food to your aquarium fish and their babies. Most daphnia fades with heat moina however has done well for us into the upper 90f ranges for weeks at a time. Combine equal parts of a 1 1 2 gram mixture of yeast soy flour and spirulina into a glass of warm tank water to activate the yeast until fully dissolved.
