Producing Live Food

[liamhuckle]

Personally i would go to pundland or somewhere similar and get 1 of them cheap plastic containers, buy a cheap air pump, set it up and leave on windowsill for a week or 2, then buy the Daphnia or Cyclops and put them in the tank.

If the water doesnt turn green by the time you put them in, then put a small amount of actiavted yeast in, just enough for it to turn cloudy (i bought this from Sainsburys for like £1.60).

It will most liekly take a while to get a good culture going, iv had mine set up for about 2 months now and have a huge population but i made mistakes by overfeeding which made the water quality really bad.

So is the air pump just to provide air into the container or into the water

into the water yeah, i think the cultures need the air, but also the water movement is good for the algae also

Might give this a go have you got a picture of your set up?

 

[Geordiehc]

yeah, excuse the deco we are in the middle of re decorating lol
cyclops

This was my first set up, a 10 litre tank, really excessive though thats why i went for the plastic tub instead