Re: culturing scuds
Polly and all,
We usually have them hitch a ride on the hornwort we sell at the HAS auction but wil not be attending this one because will be out of town on spring break. Â It is easy to grow them in the horse tank like what are talking about; have lots of hornwort or anacharis floating on the top. Â Once a week pull the hornwort & anacharis out and put in a dish pan (you can even rinse with a little water). Â Wait a few minutes and many will fall off the plants into the water that is dripping in the pan. Â After 10 minutes put the plants back in the tank and you will have scuds in the bottom of the pan. Â Screen these scuds through a brine shrimp net because they will get caught in the holes of a regular net.
What is more fun to raise as live food that breeds faster and is almost as easy is the daphnia on green water. Â We use the regular fish nets for harvesting the adults and leave the young ones to grow up and brine shimp nets to harvest the adults and babies. Â Our fish love scuds but feast on the daphnia. We raise them outside or inside year round in 5 gallon buckets.
We always have cultures of either ones of these going if you need some. Â Mark uses both for science fair projects and supplied a handful of other students this year with daphnia (they call them water fleas) for their science fair projects. Â
later, ken/mark
Polly and all,
We usually have them hitch a ride on the hornwort we sell at the HAS auction but wil not be attending this one because will be out of town on spring break. Â It is easy to grow them in the horse tank like what are talking about; have lots of hornwort or anacharis floating on the top. Â Once a week pull the hornwort & anacharis out and put in a dish pan (you can even rinse with a little water). Â Wait a few minutes and many will fall off the plants into the water that is dripping in the pan. Â After 10 minutes put the plants back in the tank and you will have scuds in the bottom of the pan. Â Screen these scuds through a brine shrimp net because they will get caught in the holes of a regular net.
What is more fun to raise as live food that breeds faster and is almost as easy is the daphnia on green water. Â We use the regular fish nets for harvesting the adults and leave the young ones to grow up and brine shimp nets to harvest the adults and babies. Â Our fish love scuds but feast on the daphnia. We raise them outside or inside year round in 5 gallon buckets.
We always have cultures of either ones of these going if you need some. Â Mark uses both for science fair projects and supplied a handful of other students this year with daphnia (they call them water fleas) for their science fair projects. Â
later, ken/mark
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