Creating an INFINITE supply of fish food! | My Tank Ep. 3

Brine shrimp are great, but what if you want a constant, self-replenishing food source for your fish? Look no further than moina eggs! In this video, we take you on a fascinating journey, hatching moina eggs and watching them transform from microscopic specks into a thriving colony within just 5 days!

We then unleash this living cloud into the aquarium, creating a self-sustaining mini ecosystem where moina become a delicious and nutritious food source for the fish.

Learn the secrets to culturing moina eggs, witness the feeding frenzy, and discover how this tiny crustacean can become a vital part of your fish tank's food chain.

Hit that like button and subscribe for more awesome fishkeeping content! Let us know in the comments what your favorite part of the video was!

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Brine shrimp are great, but what if you want a constant, self-replenishing food source for your fish? Look no further than moina eggs! In this video, we take you on a fascinating journey, hatching moina eggs and watching them transform from microscopic specks into a thriving colony within just 5 days!

We then unleash this living cloud into the aquarium, creating a self-sustaining mini ecosystem where moina become a delicious and nutritious food source for the fish.

Learn the secrets to culturing moina eggs, witness the feeding frenzy, and discover how this tiny crustacean can become a vital part of your fish tank's food chain.

Hit that like button and subscribe for more awesome fishkeeping content! Let us know in the comments what your favorite part of the video was!

[kfishes]

Hey y’all! I’ve made a part two to this topic around how you could apply similar principles in this video to raise a simpler type of live food…Scuds!

Check it out here:

The SECRET to growing live food for your fish tank (How to culture scuds)

[skeeterjohn]

Great video but your voiceover sounds like a serial killer about to torture your victim

[FatherFish]

a food web is simple to create and perpetuates in your aquarium. Create a resurrection jar from your local pond and you will have microfood that will never run out.

[mq]

Man you took a lot of heat in the comments for nothing 😂great vid!

[Ethdawg]

These guys just appeared in my tank one day after adding some live plants. I panicked at first but once I found out what they were I was actually pleasantly surprised. I love watching my Betta and CPD's hunt them.

[GreatNW]

Scarlet badis don't require live food, they will eat high quality flake food. You also need to remove the puffer, they can't be housed with other species and will eat everything they can.

[GrimReaper_sGhost]

You can also look at fairy shrimp. They are the larger equivalent of the brine shrimp but fully freshwater unlike brine which will soon die from it. Most of their eggs, including the largest beavertail can be bought online and can get in the fish size range at over an inch and a quarter or as small as brines. Because they are seasonal, you just need to scoop out some substrate from the tank they laid eggs in and dry that out, then regrow a new generation in a smaller tank before adding them back to the main tank to replenish them constantly. Daphnia can also be raised with them.

[lloyd]

absolutely not. there will be no surviors in that tank. you will need to raise them separately

[santiagokahn]

For some reason I like the serial killer voice

[SunniMerlot]

I think it would be best to add the Moina and brine shrimp and let them thrive for at a few weeks to a month so that they could fully establish all over the tank. Then add in the fish that way the ecosystem can start off with the fish having extra food and then naturally knocking them down to a natural balance. I figure if you put them in while the fish are there a lot get picked off before they can hide

[Chompchompyerded]

I have put live water fleas and live daphnia in my tank, but my voratious fish seem to eat them all before they can find hiding places. Sadly, they never get a chance to reproduce with my little monsters around. I've had better luck with crayfish reproducing in the turtle tank, and that's even though my turtle likes live crayfish better than anything else. He actively stalks and hunts them, often times digging under the log in his tank to try and dig them out. He's rarely successful in that, but if one of the crayfish is foolish enough to come out from under the log, my turtle turns into a cheetah and simply out-runs them and catches them with sheer speed.
I have tried feeding my fish before introducing the water fleas or daphnia, but they'll go crazy over them anyhow and will overeat, sometimes catching and killing them, only to spit the dead ones out.

[Orange_DNA]

How did get your Puffer to play nice? My Puffer was the smallest fish in my tank and she was an ill-tempered hell raiser that picked on every fish in the tank. I would return home and she would have an entire Neon in her mouth she couldn't swallow.

[kalkoeng]

it's crazy to see the difference between your rummynoses and mine. yours barely cared about the brine shrimp being dropped in the tank. Mine are just sharks stealing everything (litterally everything) from everything. I have to overfeed with tiny powder like foods to ensure my pygmy corydoras don't starve. Hopefully the moina can help them and live in the aquasoil to reproduce

[LushSaltyAquariums]

Hello from my fish room channel in Chicago, where I just subscribed to yours! Your tank creatures are awesome. But I have to be a bummer now: While I love feeding live adult brine shrimp to my fish they are in fact bereft of any real nutritional value. It is the baby brine that has all that :)

[Russeren]

Very cool and good quality video you have made! Don’t listen to the haters.

[kfishes]

Would you try adding Moina to your tank? Comment below! 🐟🫧

[samuelrodriguez]

Is it possible to make a Brackish Paludarium with mangrove saplings, amazon frogbit, salvinia natans, java ferns, java moss, isopods, springtails, crickets, cherry shrimp, mudskippers, rabbit snails, mystery snails, archer fish, four-eye fish, moina, daphnia, an axolotl and figure eight pufferfish?

[matteld]

Im surprised you successfully co-existed a pea puffer with all these fish, behavior varies from individual, so you must be extra lucky having a tame pea puffer-

[Asperatic]

How’d you get your puffer to not bully the other fish?

[chadtitan]

Place 3 hard water buckets with a pinch of organic fertilizer in the sun to get green water. Then keep Daphnia in 2 storage binz with hard water. Feed 1 half a bucket of green water every other day and boom 💥. Forever supply of live Daphnia Moina/Magna.