Thank you for making me a good quality tutorial I just discovered it today when I was considering attempting to start a daphnia culture again. I've attempted it three or four times with eggs and a few more times with bags of daphnia that I got shipped from somewhere else in America. The ex never got started and all of the bags of daphnia died off. I just started my culture today, I used smoked vegetables that I microwaved and I added tank water. Now I just need to watch every tutorial on TH-cam I can find in the next 2 hours. I'm hoping to find one where they convert the jar into a 10 gallon tank. And the ankle is to convert trash bags of leaves into fish food, because I spend more money on fish food that I do on upgrading my fish room.
This is amazing! thank you so much for teaching - a few days ago I saw infusoria and what looks like walter worms in one of my tanks. I read that they came from the apple snails. I also have several types of plants that could have brought them in. I will follow your instruction and see if I can culture them! Thanks again!
Thanks for the tips, and thanks for presenting this info with no drama or silly TH-cam edits. Love the music you use for backing tracks too, so relaxing ❤
Hello Mark. Brilliant content ! I stumbled across your channel a few days ago and it's good to see an Englishman making content. Through doing some research there are ways to get microworms and vinegar eels, without needing to buy them. It may also help anyone wanting to have a culture and feel a sense of self achievement. I am starting my infusoria culture right this second. I have opted for broccoli and runner beans.
Thanks for the best explanation of these little guys and I didn't know, but had hoped, they're already living in our tanks and we just need to grow, and harvest them little stinkers👍😃
I've been watchong yput vidrod for awhile now and have become attached to your layed back easygoing style....i truly look to ypur content an most of my breeding projects...good stuff buddy, i look pn you as a friend and fellow hobbyist that loves what we do...thanks bro!
Have you ever done a culture of vinegar worms? Fairly easy to make once you have an initial stock of them to breed and the culture can last for years. All you need is a clean bottle, one apple cored and sliced placed in the bottle and add vinegar to 3/4 full then add your vinegar worms which I think you can order on line, and then cover with burlap over the top to prevent flies and such from infecting the culture, and set in a warm place, say on top of a fridge or up on a high shelf in a room where the heat rises to. Harvest as needed with a pipette. Cory of Aquarium Co-op did a video a year or so ago on how to set them up to culture. They are a good second stage food for fry and not as smelly as walter/micro worms, not as time intense as baby brine shrimps. You can also culture Red-Tailed Fairy Shrimps instead of Brine Shrimps, same as brine shrimps but they are fresh water micro shrimps. Their eggs can also be ordered online as can Daphnia and Cyclops eggs.
I may have forgotten a step to add distilled water to the vinegar, but check out Cory's video it is very comprehensive on how to do it. Also secure the burlap with string around the neck of the bottle to keep it in place. Rubber bands will rot over time.
You are a star! You are the best at teaching and showing us how to care for our aquatic pets! 🤩 The knowledge you've shared has done a world of difference for my aquariums and I love you for it! ❤️
That's awesome. I breed a bunch of different fish from guppies to bettas and I like giving a varied diet. This is just one more thing to add to my arsenal
thank you for doing this video once again as in the past i have no problem in admitting that i have struggled in raising my fry so i'll be putting this into practice cheer's buddy
Thank you this tutorial. You made this seem so easy. I will be adding small shoals to this 55G once it is ready to receive the fish. Currently, I have a male Betta and a few Clean-up Crew.
Superb Mark! just trying to raise rice fish from eggs for the first time ever of raising anything. The fry are so tiny almost need a nagnifying glass to see them but you've certainly help solve my feeding worries a great deal. I am so wary of using Hikari first bites as i can't see them feed and even just putting the tiniest amount in the tank it all settles on the bottom and I don't want to overfeed or foul the water. I'm currently boiling lettuce as I write! Thanks for such a rewarding and easy listening tutorial, well done to you, kind regards, Tony. (have subbed)👍👍
Your videos are seriously epic. I think you don’t have many subs only because you pause frequently and we end up staring at a blank screen and getting bored. But if we stick around the content is actually really great. Just please try to get to the point faster and stay at it! Love them.
You are, the very best in my opinion, the absolute very best on U-Tube toward showing hobbiest's how to successfully keep, breed, raise, and enjoy these animal's. You are outstanding. What in the hell are you doing way over in Wales ? All that talent hidden away in the west of Britain, you should be ashamed of yourself. 🙂 Why don't you live next door; that's all I want to know. Thank's mate.
Thankyou, I’ll set up a jar with ingredients today and hope that there’s some Infusoria in a few days as my sparkling gouramis have just laid eggs n placed in bubble nest last night. (Plus I’ll be able to feed it to my 6 week old peacock gudgeon fry also (still very tiny only around 6 mm)
Hi Mark, loving all these videos I've had a binge this week going through everything I want to try. My baby brine shrimp hatchery was a bit of a disaster I bought rubbish eggs and all the shells sank so could not safely feed to fry :-( My questions about infusoria are: can fry eat that until they are big enough for crushed flake or ground Betta pellets? And secondly, do infusoria need water changes or will they balance themselves out in any given body of water?
Great videos, i have just found your channel and have been watching everything regarding Betta. Sorry to hear about your boy, i have one that looks like is brother. Can i use pond water as my base with plants, the pond has goldfish in it, and is very old so guessing tgat woukd be better, my Betta tanks are new??
Hi Mark, thanks for another fantastic video. A couple of questions... Can the infusoria get too hot? If I put it outside (I live in Australia) it's likely to swing from 18 to 35 deg. Does it need to have an open top for air or could I just open it once a day?
I saw another video some time ago, another 'how to breed' video (sorry, can't link to it because I can't remember where I saw it) and the guy said that one of the best triggers to get your fish to spawn was to put infusoria into the breeding tank. The adult fish won't eat it because it is too small for them but they know it is there. He suggested that it may trigger the adult fish to spawn because they know there is food available for their fry once they hatch. Don't know if it's true or not but the theory sounds good, most other animals, birds etc time their breeding to coincide with when their food source is most abundant.
Sorry to hear about Jack. I’m very attached to my fish & they all have names. The losses I have suffered have been very sad, so I can empathise with you. Thank you for your videos x
@@MARKSAQUATICS I know it was a while back, and I wanted to say thank you for normalizing mourning our fish. My CT Betta passed away while I was in the hospital with a TIA. That was really hard to come home to... no clue what happened, she was barely passed her second birthday. This was a fabulous introduction to your channel, thank you for your dedication to the detail, and to your humanity.
Hi Mark. Love the videos buddy. I notice your having problems with reflection when filming during the day. When I'm viewing my tanks during the day I get a black foam floor tile and hold it at a 45 degree angle with the bottom edge up against the take base. The mat black reflection improve visibility superbly. Thought it might be worth a try. Cheers Mark
Thank you so much Sir for your best advice for feeding the fries. No one says how many days we have to feed infosuria but yo said for a weeks time. and we can feed other stuff later on .Thank you so much . My name is murali from chennai.,india. I am a live bearers breeder for a couple of years. But I did not try egg layers till now. On seeing your video ,now I will try ,Thank you so much .
How long does the culture last? Mine is getting pretty rank. Is it still safe to put in fish tank? Thanks for the videos. I have some zebra danio fry looking back at me from a tank now!
Great channel, Mark. I am curious what kind of camera/lens you're using. It shows great detail. My infusoria appears to be much finer than yours. I can not see it with the naked eye; just clouds in the jar. Any ideas?
Mark, you are the only channel I've found that goes into full detail on how to do stuff, brilliant! Great to see the whole process. It's a pity it's so smelly, does temp matter, could it be kept outside in the warmer months?
I'm not where to post this question but I value your opinion more than any other.:Right now I have a 29ga. tank that I used to have 25 goldfish in. I have since moved them to a 55. everyone is fine. In this 29 I now have a couple of pleckos and about a dozen of pygmy cories. Is it a bad idea to add 18 silver hatchets to this tank or should I take the entire group and put them into a a 40 I have and leave the water level about b6 inches below the top
Hi Mark, quick question, if you dump maybe half the infusoria in the fry tank, would they be able to propagate enough to sustain the fry through that feeding stage or do you have to keep them separate?
Yes it realy helps if you already have a matured aquarim to take water from and some plants. Would it have speeded things up if you had liquidized the brussel sprout first? Some people like to put in a snail or two as well. Couldn't you put a pint of culture in a jar above the tank and drip feed it into the tank throughout the day so they get a constant supply?
Another awesome video thank you Mark!!! Do not know what happened but I was only successful once. The smell was not as bad due to great air circulation and bay windows. Tried inside and outside. Inside never worked and I used the same water from my shrimp tanks? Outside worked after six days but died after a rain? Any ideas please and thank you!
In the summer I fill an old dustbin up with rain water fill it with old oak leaves and add a starter culture from from my fish shop and leave it for a month and you'll have millions of them.👍😀
Hello Mark, I have an observation I just wanted to share: I keep a scratched up 75gallon outside which I use to store and grow my plant clippings and soak driftwood (no fish in it, no aeration and partial sun). I noticed when I took a piece of driftwood with java fern attached to it and put it in my neon tetra tank that they were going crazy, racing all over the tank; clearly hunting something I could not see with my naked eye. I am thinking that it must have been infusoria (or another type of micro life) on the plant or driftwood. Perhaps this will be a good standby if I am caught without a infusoria culture - just add a clump of plant matter from my outdoor tank?
Danial Zulkarnain wheat grass is another one, boil for just 30 seconds and use to feed the culture after( keep in fridge) , very low smell and you can drop in 5/9 wheat seeds a week to feed the culture...can last 2/3 months on wheat grass seed
Keep teaching Mark; not everyone explains and shows actual results in detail as you do:)
Thanks Michael. 👍😀
For me the most detailed and easiest way to culture infusoria! Now im ready to breed my bettas 😃
Helpful tip, I personally did an infusoria culture by using lettuce which did not stink.
Lettuce and carrots both stink for about 24 hours as the bacteria develop for the infusoria to feed on.🤷♂️
You are the best that I have found !!! Thank you soo much !
Thanks a bushel, Mark. Extremely helpful and critical step in fish breeding. Exquisite pair of angels.
This is awesome. loved it.
Thank you for putting these videos together! They are immensely informative.
Great job. Thanks for sharing
Helpful video! You are an encouraging teacher, sir. Thanks for this, and other similar fine videos. Keep it up!
Thank you for making me a good quality tutorial I just discovered it today when I was considering attempting to start a daphnia culture again.
I've attempted it three or four times with eggs and a few more times with bags of daphnia that I got shipped from somewhere else in America.
The ex never got started and all of the bags of daphnia died off.
I just started my culture today, I used smoked vegetables that I microwaved and I added tank water.
Now I just need to watch every tutorial on TH-cam I can find in the next 2 hours.
I'm hoping to find one where they convert the jar into a 10 gallon tank.
And the ankle is to convert trash bags of leaves into fish food, because I spend more money on fish food that I do on upgrading my fish room.
This is amazing! thank you so much for teaching - a few days ago I saw infusoria and what looks like walter worms in one of my tanks. I read that they came from the apple snails. I also have several types of plants that could have brought them in. I will follow your instruction and see if I can culture them! Thanks again!
Thanks for the tips, and thanks for presenting this info with no drama or silly TH-cam edits.
Love the music you use for backing tracks too, so relaxing ❤
Best infusoria culture video I've seen yet. Thank you for this?
The most pleasant way to learn about the aquarium hobby, thanks a lot, Mark
Hello Mark. Brilliant content ! I stumbled across your channel a few days ago and it's good to see an Englishman making content. Through doing some research there are ways to get microworms and vinegar eels, without needing to buy them. It may also help anyone wanting to have a culture and feel a sense of self achievement. I am starting my infusoria culture right this second. I have opted for broccoli and runner beans.
Very nice Mark. Thanks for such a beautiful video.
Finally I’ve checked how to breed them! Thanks.
Brilliant video thanks.
Another great video!
Thanks Mark, great video and as always educational.
love the content dude, I look forward to your vids.
Super helpful step by step guide, thank you
good job!! thanks for sharing!!
You're a good man thankyou!
Excellent Video, learnt so much. Thanks Mark
Loved it Mark thanks!
Thanks for the best explanation of these little guys and I didn't know, but had hoped, they're already living in our tanks and we just need to grow, and harvest them little stinkers👍😃
Great new I finally got it to work and got my 1st glow eye tetra babies thanks for everything
Another informative, helpful video from you Mark. Thanks for posting......from the USA.
Thanks for showing how to set up a live food source.
The more I know the better I'm prepped for breeding ciclids.
Thanks again, O'dan
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Thank you for all your videos!
I've been watchong yput vidrod for awhile now and have become attached to your layed back easygoing style....i truly look to ypur content an most of my breeding projects...good stuff buddy, i look pn you as a friend and fellow hobbyist that loves what we do...thanks bro!
glad i remembered i saw you make this, got koi fry and need some for them....thanks mark
Have you ever done a culture of vinegar worms? Fairly easy to make once you have an initial stock of them to breed and the culture can last for years. All you need is a clean bottle, one apple cored and sliced placed in the bottle and add vinegar to 3/4 full then add your vinegar worms which I think you can order on line, and then cover with burlap over the top to prevent flies and such from infecting the culture, and set in a warm place, say on top of a fridge or up on a high shelf in a room where the heat rises to. Harvest as needed with a pipette. Cory of Aquarium Co-op did a video a year or so ago on how to set them up to culture. They are a good second stage food for fry and not as smelly as walter/micro worms, not as time intense as baby brine shrimps. You can also culture Red-Tailed Fairy Shrimps instead of Brine Shrimps, same as brine shrimps but they are fresh water micro shrimps. Their eggs can also be ordered online as can Daphnia and Cyclops eggs.
Thanks for sharing that with the gang. 👍😀
I may have forgotten a step to add distilled water to the vinegar, but check out Cory's video it is very comprehensive on how to do it. Also secure the burlap with string around the neck of the bottle to keep it in place. Rubber bands will rot over time.
You are a star! You are the best at teaching and showing us how to care for our aquatic pets! 🤩 The knowledge you've shared has done a world of difference for my aquariums and I love you for it! ❤️
Thank you Maria 😊
Thank you really enjoy you vids and you help me!
Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge! God bless!
Great video Mark
You are simply, AMAZING. Truly a gifted soul. So glad we have your knowledge in this hobby! Thank you.
That's awesome. I breed a bunch of different fish from guppies to bettas and I like giving a varied diet. This is just one more thing to add to my arsenal
Aww. So sorry for your loss ❤️
Great video!
thank you for doing this video once again as in the past i have no problem in admitting that i have struggled in raising my fry so i'll be putting this into practice cheer's buddy
Super video Mark :)
Thank you so much for your video it has really helped me a lot!
Thank you this tutorial. You made this seem so easy. I will be adding small shoals to this 55G once it is ready to receive the fish. Currently, I have a male Betta and a few Clean-up Crew.
Thank you Mark; very nice!
So impressive Mark.
Damn, i love this channel, thnx Mark
Best aquarium channel on youtube. Thank you
Thanks for watching 😀👍
Thanks for the info man ! I never knew about this tip and it will be very helpful :)
Thankyou !!!🙏 your a legend bro.
I am new to your chanel, thank you for sharing you knowledge.
Superb Mark! just trying to raise rice fish from eggs for the first time ever of raising anything. The fry are so tiny almost need a nagnifying glass to see them but you've certainly help solve my feeding worries a great deal. I am so wary of using Hikari first bites as i can't see them feed and even just putting the tiniest amount in the tank it all settles on the bottom and I don't want to overfeed or foul the water. I'm currently boiling lettuce as I write! Thanks for such a rewarding and easy listening tutorial, well done to you, kind regards, Tony. (have subbed)👍👍
Awesome
Cool video.... THANKS Mark!!!
Thanks John. 👍😀
thank for this info bro
appreciated.
Excellent video Mark, exactly what I need to know to feed my first sextuplets of Corys I’ve managed to hatch successfully! Thank you🙏
Thank you! Subscribed …
Your videos are seriously epic. I think you don’t have many subs only because you pause frequently and we end up staring at a blank screen and getting bored. But if we stick around the content is actually really great. Just please try to get to the point faster and stay at it! Love them.
You are, the very best in my opinion, the absolute very best on U-Tube toward showing hobbiest's how to successfully keep, breed, raise, and enjoy these animal's. You are outstanding. What in the hell are you doing way over in Wales ? All that talent hidden away in the west of Britain, you should be ashamed of yourself. 🙂
Why don't you live next door; that's all I want to know. Thank's mate.
Thankyou, I’ll set up a jar with ingredients today and hope that there’s some Infusoria in a few days as my sparkling gouramis have just laid eggs n placed in bubble nest last night. (Plus I’ll be able to feed it to my 6 week old peacock gudgeon fry also (still very tiny only around 6 mm)
Thank again for this video. I didn’t catch that it needs to be in light.
Brussels Sprouts? Couldn’t you use something that would stink more? 😂
Hi Mark, loving all these videos I've had a binge this week going through everything I want to try. My baby brine shrimp hatchery was a bit of a disaster I bought rubbish eggs and all the shells sank so could not safely feed to fry :-(
My questions about infusoria are: can fry eat that until they are big enough for crushed flake or ground Betta pellets? And secondly, do infusoria need water changes or will they balance themselves out in any given body of water?
Can I use this for shrimp. Thank you for your video.
Great videos, i have just found your channel and have been watching everything regarding Betta. Sorry to hear about your boy, i have one that looks like is brother.
Can i use pond water as my base with plants, the pond has goldfish in it, and is very old so guessing tgat woukd be better, my Betta tanks are new??
Nice tutorial! I’ll have to give this a try.
Hi Mark, thanks for another fantastic video. A couple of questions... Can the infusoria get too hot? If I put it outside (I live in Australia) it's likely to swing from 18 to 35 deg. Does it need to have an open top for air or could I just open it once a day?
This retired CVT was surprised to see a TR band syringe. thanks
GREAT VIDEO we are able to see the process ,the white little worms are they from the infusoria culture
I saw another video some time ago, another 'how to breed' video (sorry, can't link to it because I can't remember where I saw it) and the guy said that one of the best triggers to get your fish to spawn was to put infusoria into the breeding tank. The adult fish won't eat it because it is too small for them but they know it is there.
He suggested that it may trigger the adult fish to spawn because they know there is food available for their fry once they hatch. Don't know if it's true or not but the theory sounds good, most other animals, birds etc time their breeding to coincide with when their food source is most abundant.
that was Dean on aquarium co-op's channel, I think it might have been "how to breed Ram's"
@@mystique_tinajones4423 yes it was!
I've heard seversl others mention the trick about feeding adults micro worms or bbs to stimulate spawning...icm sure there is something go it#
Brussel sprouts are good for something! Thanks Mark
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Lol!
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Sorry to hear about Jack. I’m very attached to my fish & they all have names. The losses I have suffered have been very sad, so I can empathise with you.
Thank you for your videos x
Thanks for watching Carrie. Yes it was a sad day.
@@MARKSAQUATICS I know it was a while back, and I wanted to say thank you for normalizing mourning our fish.
My CT Betta passed away while I was in the hospital with a TIA. That was really hard to come home to... no clue what happened, she was barely passed her second birthday.
This was a fabulous introduction to your channel, thank you for your dedication to the detail, and to your humanity.
Hi Mark. Love the videos buddy. I notice your having problems with reflection when filming during the day. When I'm viewing my tanks during the day I get a black foam floor tile and hold it at a 45 degree angle with the bottom edge up against the take base. The mat black reflection improve visibility superbly. Thought it might be worth a try. Cheers Mark
Cheers I'll give it a go 😀👍
Hi Mark great videos for how long does the culture stink? Im guessing always. Thanks much and love the info
Until the infusoria eat enough of the bacteria to make the smell go away 😅
Thank you so much Sir for your best advice for feeding the fries. No one says how many days we have to feed infosuria but yo said for a weeks time. and we can feed other stuff later on .Thank you so much . My name is murali from chennai.,india. I am a live bearers breeder for a couple of years. But I did not try egg layers till now. On seeing your video ,now I will try ,Thank you so much .
Glad I could help. Thanks for watching 😀👍
I am new.
I am so sorry to hear of your loss of your water friend Jack.
How long does the culture last? Mine is getting pretty rank. Is it still safe to put in fish tank? Thanks for the videos. I have some zebra danio fry looking back at me from a tank now!
I hope to see this happen from my rotifers 😅 I want clouds of them like you did
thanks
Great channel, Mark. I am curious what kind of camera/lens you're using. It shows great detail.
My infusoria appears to be much finer than yours. I can not see it with the naked eye; just clouds in the jar. Any ideas?
They get bigger with time. All I use is my Samsung Galaxy S9
Your wife either
a) loves you very much or
b) has no sense of smell
;) thanks for another great tutorial Mark
I hope It's number 1. 👍😀
Mark, you are the only channel I've found that goes into full detail on how to do stuff, brilliant! Great to see the whole process. It's a pity it's so smelly, does temp matter, could it be kept outside in the warmer months?
You can leave it outside in the summer months. Thanks for watching.
I'm not where to post this question but I value your opinion more than any other.:Right now I have a 29ga. tank that I used to have 25 goldfish in. I have since moved them to a 55. everyone is fine. In this 29 I now have a couple of pleckos and about a dozen of pygmy cories. Is it a bad idea to add 18 silver hatchets to this tank or should I take the entire group and put them into a a 40 I have and leave the water level about b6 inches below the top
Chears ears 👍😁
Mark I would like to know if you can grow this food under a light bulb in cold weather and do you need to keep light on it until used
Hi Mark, I was wondering if you could do a video on breeding dicrossus filamentosus? Your videos helps a lot👏🏻
Yes if can source some I will.
Hi mark, what is the longevity of the infusoria culture? Does it exhaust/run out of 'food' at some point? can you feed it to perpetuate it ?
Truly sorry buddy. Bettas are so interactive. And Jack was a beaut, loved his colors.
Hi Mark, quick question, if you dump maybe half the infusoria in the fry tank, would they be able to propagate enough to sustain the fry through that feeding stage or do you have to keep them separate?
Nice video you have here. I would just like to clarify, are infusorias the mites-like white specks that crawl on the walls of the tank?
Hi John. Yes that's them. 😀👍
Rest In Peace, dear friend.
Yes it realy helps if you already have a matured aquarim to take water from and some plants. Would it have speeded things up if you had liquidized the brussel sprout first? Some people like to put in a snail or two as well. Couldn't you put a pint of culture in a jar above the tank and drip feed it into the tank throughout the day so they get a constant supply?
Yes drip feeding is a good way to feed if your away for a couple of days.
Another awesome video thank you Mark!!! Do not know what happened but I was only successful once. The smell was not as bad due to great air circulation and bay windows. Tried inside and outside. Inside never worked and I used the same water from my shrimp tanks? Outside worked after six days but died after a rain? Any ideas please and thank you!
It could be where you live. Is it really hot. ?
Inside stays about 25c with the windows open. Outside maybe a little warmer.
Hallo Mark from Belgium!
Great fantastic video again!
At what temperature do you breed infusoria? Thanks!
Anything between 10 to 20 Celsius is fine .room temperature
@@MARKSAQUATICS thank you very much for quick answering 👍😉
Interesting I want to know how you do with the daphnia to & are they breedable.
In the summer I fill an old dustbin up with rain water fill it with old oak leaves and add a starter culture from from my fish shop and leave it for a month and you'll have millions of them.👍😀
Hello Mark, I have an observation I just wanted to share:
I keep a scratched up 75gallon outside which I use to store and grow my plant clippings and soak driftwood (no fish in it, no aeration and partial sun). I noticed when I took a piece of driftwood with java fern attached to it and put it in my neon tetra tank that they were going crazy, racing all over the tank; clearly hunting something I could not see with my naked eye. I am thinking that it must have been infusoria (or another type of micro life) on the plant or driftwood. Perhaps this will be a good standby if I am caught without a infusoria culture - just add a clump of plant matter from my outdoor tank?
Yes that works very well I've done it in the past. 😀👍
Hello sir, please try lemongrass. it works well and low stink.
Danial Zulkarnain wheat grass is another one, boil for just 30 seconds and use to feed the culture after( keep in fridge) , very low smell and you can drop in 5/9 wheat seeds a week to feed the culture...can last 2/3 months on wheat grass seed