How to culture Freshwater Amphipods/Scuds

Called amphipods, scuds, gammarus, or Hyalella azteca, these prolific, hardy crustaceans make excellent live fish food.
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Amphipods can be co-cultured with daphnia, or cultured on their own. Amphipods make a great live food for fish as well as aquatic amphibians. The newly born amphipods are tiny, so small fish and and growing fry can eat them, and the adults are large enough to make a good live food for medium-sized and even some larger fish,

[emilytreu]

These turned up in one of my planted tanks-I call it a wet terrarium haha. Anyway, I got snails and scuds from the plants I purchased apparently and I am not upset by this . Happy to have life enjoying itself in my space

[shannonhukins]

The animal voice at the end: the joy I needed in my day

[FalloutTactics]

I used these guys as the basis for my outdoor pond and they are an excellent source of food for the fish.

[frankallen]

They just showed up in my 50gal shrimp tank. Nothing introduced for over 6 months and have only appeared recently. They are super happy with the shrimp and snails, so welcome home I guess.

[dragonflyhopes]

I'm glad that I found this video and learned of the benefits of these creatures. I had some hitchhike in on plants that I purchased and have bred rapidly. I was going to break down my entire tank in an attempt to get rid of them but have decided to let them stay. Apparently I have a good thing and didn't realize it.

[sedghammer]

I love these little guys. Ever since I started keeping them and other small invertebrates I find myself more fascinated by them than the fish.

[crittersmoore]

We just found some stray scuds in our quarantine tank we took down and I have the perfect daphnia set up where I'm going to culture these. My fish are going to love it. Thanks for the tips!

[mountainhobbit]

thanks for sharing 'Russ with one s'. ;-) I love scuds...good to know that daphnia and scuds can be cultured together.

[Juunkead]

Just ordered some of these guys! Very excited to test them out. Thanks for the video!

[angeliclike]

I got some Guppy grass in the mail and just found 2 of these little guys swimming around in my 3 gallon tank. I keep extra plants in there, no fish. Hopefully I will see more and they will start breeding

[glennvreeland]

thanks for your time, very good info Central Florida aquarium fish, plants and inverts :)

[MischievousMoron]

I was sampling for aquatic macroinvertebrates today and we caught a ton of these! I'm happy to know what their order is, because I was stumped!

[henrykater]

Great video. They love aquarium mosses - they live in them. Xmas moss is my preferred habitat.

[annaburtenheim]

got some with a bunch of plants i bought. so i wanted to look in to how to make the best out of em. currently housing 4 adults in my 20l nano with some plants and 2 snails. planing to move over my single guppy fry for temporary housing while i wait for a perfect betta to come along.
then planing to move as many as i can find over to my emerced settup to use as live food for my 30g planted community. this video helped alot.

[dinosaurterrorworld]

AWESOME and amazing video keep up the fantastic work👏👏👍👍😁😁😃😃

[jessicaashley]

Would you set them up a tank/keep/feed them similar to Mystery snails if you just thought they were adorable and wanted them as "pets "?

[rafaelnavarro]

I had these and ghost shrimp in my turtle tank they invaded the internet and it never smelled bad. I would do half water changes water was always super clear.

[Waverwreck]

@aquarimax What is that organism at 2:07 top-left-centre. There are 2 tiny scuds and then that round thing with flat profile i sometimes see in my aquarium that pisses me off.

[qaadirmohan]

Tip: If these guys colonize in you filter full a bucket up with saltwater and put your sponges anf filters in ; it will kill all of them. Afterwards, you can wash out the filter then strain the water using a fish net and all the dead scuds can be fed to your fish

[AlexGallegos]

Thanks! I'll get some soon! New subscriber!