Farming Scuds for Feeding Aquarium Fish

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In the past year I have been farming scuds (Gammarus) for feeding my guppies. Check the video for details on two different ways to farm live food for your fish.
00:00 Farming Scuds (Gammarus) for Feeding Aquarium Fish
00:05 Repurposing old aquarium
00:49 Scuds feeding on algae and plants
01:20 Setting up a new colony of scuds
01:30 Scuds big population destroys plants
02:13 Feeding with mulberry leaf
02:31 Setting up a new colony
02:48 Seeding scuds into a new aquarium
03:30 10 days later
03:43 4 months later
04:00 Feeding scuds once a month
04:25 Adding scuds into aquarium with fish
04:54 No filters, no pumps, no water changing
05:35 Sustainable self-feeding aquariums with fish
06:05 Adult scuds find plenty of food in aquariums
06:20 Year old colony of scuds
07:08 Time-lapse recording
07:25 Farming scuds in the aquariums with fish
07:23 Transferring scuds with plants into another aquarium

[FishmanEricRussell]

Hey Michael! Scuds are great food. I feed my fish with them all the time. I also provide sanctuaries in my tanks so they will continually supply the fish with live food. Thanks for the great update!

[michaelinsc]

Awesome video. I started a scud tank a couple of months ago and they are thriving. Looking to transfer some of them to my main fish tank (which is planted) soon. It is exciting to see their population grow and grow.

[TheUrbanNemophilist]

Looking forward to another cool video from one of my favourite youtuber who also inspired me to create my own content for my channel. Thank you

[kevinpowell]

Another really inspiring video Michael, happy aquarium gardens 😊🍀

[myounges]

Thanks for another video! Miss your voice narrated vids though, I tend to miss out some details while reading. All the best Michael!

[MoreChannelNoise]

If you collect the scuds youself from a local pond that contains fish, make sure to quarantine the scuds for at least a month as they can carry a parasite. The parasitic worm, Pomphorhynchys laevis often make the abdomen of the shrimp look orange.

[weilam]

I raise Scuds the exact same way. I just found your channel today and I put some seed shrimp to hatch last night, weird coincidence. I feed my Scuds left over vegetables from when I cook. But you don't really need to feed anything as long as there's duckweed

[njnature]

I subbed! You have nice jar fish tanks. Also try adding Indian almond leaves they can clean the water.

[COOPERSCICHILDS]

I'm actually trying to raise and breed some of these great video

[Parasox]

Where do you get the lids for your jars?

[meminustherandomgooglenumbers]

Wow those tanks are amazing! What size jars are those? Where are they repurposed from? 😮🤩👌👍

[asokdey]

Hey make a video on how to culture alge to feed shrimp please!! :))

[rattlerboi]

I caught scuds at the local river, hopefully they can help keep the turtle tank clean

[jeffreydlazar]

Great video. Thank you very much! Question please: where/how do you obtain your dwarf guppies?

[dsmith]

Great video as always! Where do you get your 3 liter (or larger) glass jars? The largest I could find was the half gallon (almost 2 liter) mason jar.

[willitine]

What’s the best way to do a water change without siphoning out the acids and the baby scuds? Nice video footage by the way.

[uppenrekha]

michael can u make a vedio about macro algae in you aquariu garden macroalgae is algae but they dont look like algae but look like common aquarium plants they are fouund in saltwater but i wanted to know that can marine macro algae can live in saltwater

[KitCat]

I have a live food too for my guppies daphnia! I think daphnias are cute
My betta loves to snack on daphnia
I think im gonna get some scuds

[BlaisZeroni]

If keeping a scud colony in a tank with snails and shrimp would they eat the poop and help turn it into nutrients for the plants faster? How to keep the scuds balanced so they don’t become too many or to few?

[donnacastledine]

Really interested in scuds as a possible food source for my pea puffers and second tank with corydoras dwarf frogs small plec, shrimps and guppies..I al so have to big tanks housing Axylotls..I'm sure I read Axylotls have eaten them but not sure 🤔..I digress ..my question is are they OK for my pea puffers ?