Keeping Daphnia

I've been keeping daphnia in here (about 1 gallon) as a live food source.
I threw in some anacharis in a bid to keep the water filtered. Theres some alfagrog and a piece of wood just for cosmetics. There's very little substrate. Its kept in the windowsill to promote algae growth.

I'm not sure what they are eating exactly, very occasionally I will add a teaspoon of water mixed with a tiny amount of baker's yeast.
Is there anything else I can add/do to promote their growth and make them a more nutritious snack food for the fish?

Culturing Daphnia and Daphnia

AbbeysDad said:

Culturing Daphnia and Daphnia

Click to expand...

Smashing, thank you!

Actually kind of a cool tank, lol.

PheonixKingZ said:

Actually kind of a cool tank, lol.

Click to expand...

Thanks! Well, it does have anacharis in there!

I've seen Betta's in worse set ups than that! Lucky Daphnia, bravo!

mbsqw1d said:

I'm not sure what they are eating exactly, very occasionally I will add a teaspoon of water mixed with a tiny amount of baker's yeast.

Is there anything else I can add/do to promote their growth and make them a more nutritious snack food for the fish?

Click to expand...

They will be feeding on infusoria and single celled algae.

You can add a couple of drops of liquid plant fertiliser to encourage the water to turn green. The daphnia that have eaten the algae will be more nutritious to the fish because the fish eat the daphnia and the algae.