"irreplaceable" perfect description...I have Scuds everywhere now myself, my small fish don't eat the adult so well. Good idea with the screen .. I'm going to make a Screen scud sifter as well.
Scuds were actually my first aquatic pet. I got really fascinated with them when I was about 11 and so I tried to recreate a natural looking stream for them and then put about 7 wild caught European scuds into the tank. The „natural looking stream“ was nothing but a bunch of sand, rocks and dried leaves put into an old fish tank I got from my biology teacher and the whole project ended after about one month when we couldn’t see the scuds anymore, but it’s still a project that fuelled my love for aquariums and I intend to give this idea another try someday.
I do scuds, I found I actually had a extra colony that started in one of my 10g tanks that exploded. Do have to be careful with scuds and substrate tanks. I had added some to a tank to help feed and be clean up crew. As time went I never saw any so figured they were gone. My substrate was gravel. When I went to a bigger tank I used that substrate in new tank for all the bacteria and good stuff. New tank did great for a while until it all of a sudden wound up with ammonia off the charts for weeks (just recently) kept trying to find a dead fish stuck somewhere... turns out was a big colony that was from old tank I didn’t know was there. They hung on, got buried and all died ... they were thriving down in my previous substrate and I didn’t know it, since I never saw them ... my actual culture tank for them is bare bottom so easier to collect. I also have Daphnia in with scuds as well, which is Another really good food for fish- Moina is small Daphnia, then there’s the bigger kind of Daphnia can get.
Thanks for sharing your experiences with them! They can represent quite a large amount of biomass and if they all die there would definitely be issues for sure. Fortunately they are really tough. My culture tanks are bare bottom too (much easier). Thanks for coming by!
Hadn't heard of scuds before finding your channel. Never seen any for sale in the LFS (UK) which is a shame because I would like to start culturing them. Maybe you should throw one under the microscope to give us a closer look!
I couldn’t find any in the uk, so ordered some scuds from a Danish seller, and they are doing well. Species is Hyalella azteca. Check out lyngs_aqua_gb on EBay.
Yes to mulm video:) Scuds - Been growing scuds for a couple of years now - keep them in a few vases/bowls around my house with some substrate at bottom and moss and guppy grass - change out some water when I pull them to feed fish. Got mine from river in Virginia. The adults are about 1/4" which is too large for many of my fish to eat. I feed the smaller ones to most fish. The larger ones I kill with tweezers then feed to 6" cichlid and 12" loach - I kill them before feeding as that tank has canister filter and I really don't want a scud colony in that tank. NOTE: I have found the scuds are amazing at eating green hair algae. I had green hair algae on some plants including mayaca fluitans - put it in a cup with 20-30 scuds and they ate most of the algae in 1/2 a day without eating the plant. I have found that mine will eat what ever is easiest for them - they will eat their vase plants if there is not enough food for them but they won't bother the plants in any of my tanks because if they come out and try to get to a leaf, a fish hunts them. Also have a large snail that was growing green hair algae on it's shell!! Put it in the cup and scuds ate it off shell:) Live foods are awesome.
After a long hiatus, I started up an aquarium again about 3 months ago and only feed live foods. Black worms daphnia and scuds. The daphnia are killing me. The black worms not as bad. The scuds require zero effort and I actually harvest from there more than I intended to because they are such prolific breeders. I honestly spend more time watching the scuds than the display tank. Absolutely fantastic creatures.
My fish love white worms. My Blue Betta flares up when he sees them in the container i put down infront of his tank before I use some tweezers to put a worm in. I do a ' show ' for my community tank. I use the same container as with the betta , but I move it across the tank from left to right. They know what it means. And they get excited!. My Bumble bee gobies sometimes eat frozen blood worms.. But will always move fast!! when they see the white worms squiggling about.
I hadn't heard of these until I saw this video, did a quick search online and we have these in Scottish rivers and lochs too. What is your culture setup like to maintain a decent population? Does the temperature affect them because rivers and lochs in Scotland are pretty cold all year round while ambient temperatures in my house will reach 28C (82F) in summer and obviously my aquariums do too. I wonder if that sort of temperature would kill them off.
Thanks for letting me know! My scuds are wild caught here in Canada and I suspect our winters are a little harsher than yours' lol! In my tanks they get a range of temps too and they don't seem to care. They are tough and I've never had a culture crash. Keeping them is super simple. They are in all of my tanks and haven't caused any issues. The culture tanks for them are just aquariums with UG filters and put a bunch of lava rock and live plants in there too. I just feed the tank with a good quality flake or pellet food as if it were full of fish. Hope that helps!
I feed my scud culture hornwort I grow in my fish aquariums. Every few weeks I thin out the hornwort in my aquariums to feed to my scud cultures. Scuds will strip hornwort clean over time. A stink bug ended up stuck under the lid of one of my scud tanks. I left it to die. My scuds picked it clean in a few days. I'll toss in the occasional ones I come across from now one.
I netted some scuds in a creek close to my house twice, & put them in my 29 gallon aquarium wild patty tank with lots of plants I have a large ball of Java moss where I put my scuds, I assume that there are still in there the patties love them, but I also put 10 kulhi loaches in there a couple of years ago, & I almost never see them, they come out at night, I do know that they are bug eaters, so I am not sure if there are any skuds left in there or not because the kulhi loaches go down in the sub-straight to hunt bugs?
Love the vid fishman. I tried scuds they did ok. What ive had good luck with are daphnia. Ive had cultures crash and they come back on their own. Mulm Video I vote yes
I would be interested in a series on harvesting wild food. I have a few water run offs and bodies of water in Rockland I was thinking of trying to get daphnia and other things from.
Hey fish man, I caught some wild scuds and daphnia about a year ago and have a culture tank going but since catching them the daphnia are all gone and the only things still around are the scuds and seed shrimp... my question is about seed shrimp.. they are established in all my tanks and my fish will not eat them. Maybe they’re spoiled on brine shrimp and home made food but my guppies, danios, cichlid fry, rainbows, endlers... nobody will eat the seed shrimp.. I’ve seen plenty of fish catch them and spit them out almost immediately as if they taste bad.. Do you have any ideas on a nuclear option to get rid of scuds? I’m not concerned about plants or fish.. I have enough tanks to move fish and plants and go tank by tank and kill all the scuds. I just hate them. It would be one thing I’d my fish ate them but they don’t and I just want to start some of the tanks over and not have seed shrimp so I can give people plants and what not without having to say ( but there’s seed shrimp in them so beware...) any ideas? I was thinking copper sulfate.. I’ve tried bleach, hydrogen peroxide, potassium permanganate and emptying and completely drying out the tanks.. the little bastards just won’t go away...
All of my fish love eating scuds as you've seen in my videos, but there are many varieties and some scuds or seed shrimp may not be tasty. They are very tough, but those treatments you've already tried should have done the trick, especially the bleach. The only reason why they would be still around would have to come from being reintroduced when you add plants and fish back into the tank. Sorry but I don't have a miracle method for getting rid of them. Thanks for watching!
the best live food is sushi ' oops, but that is dead" ...hahahaha nice share brotha, i think i am going to try infusia and other water culture when it gets a bit warmer...
Totally awesome fish man we have not really done life food hardly ever we really focus on frozen Brian shrimp and blood worms and all the fish turtles and frogs we’ve ever had seem to love it tremendously plus honestly it’s just easier to manage and when you buy it in big huge amounts it’s quite inexpensive luckily we have a back up refrigerator that we could store these kind of things in it doesn’t take up a lot of room but harvesting your own is probably incredibly cost effective it’s just not something we’ve ever tried maybe someday but awesome video dude
I culture scuds as well. The most annoying part is how they hang onto the netting I use to pull them out of their container. It looks like you have better luck with a rigid material.
Daphnia magna is one of the best live food. Tubifex, moina, ans bloodworm also good but they are situational Like dqphnia magna you can give the small DM(Daphnia magna) to fry and the adult to every fish. Moina only first week to 3months tubifex only good for grow booster
"irreplaceable" perfect description...I have Scuds everywhere now myself, my small fish don't eat the adult so well. Good idea with the screen .. I'm going to make a Screen scud sifter as well.
I have tanks where the adult scuds are too big as well, but the fish love eating the little ones that get born in there. Thanks so much for coming by!
Video on mulm would be great. Enjoyed watching your fish.
Thanks for letting me know and for watching!
Scuds were actually my first aquatic pet.
I got really fascinated with them when I was about 11 and so I tried to recreate a natural looking stream for them and then put about 7 wild caught European scuds into the tank.
The „natural looking stream“ was nothing but a bunch of sand, rocks and dried leaves put into an old fish tank I got from my biology teacher and the whole project ended after about one month when we couldn’t see the scuds anymore, but it’s still a project that fuelled my love for aquariums and I intend to give this idea another try someday.
Scud in Scotland means naked, lol.
Very cool! Thanks for sharing!
I guess you will have to use the proper name of Grammarus, though I'm sure somewhere it could mean something interesting too lol!
I do scuds, I found I actually had a extra colony that started in one of my 10g tanks that exploded. Do have to be careful with scuds and substrate tanks. I had added some to a tank to help feed and be clean up crew. As time went I never saw any so figured they were gone. My substrate was gravel. When I went to a bigger tank I used that substrate in new tank for all the bacteria and good stuff. New tank did great for a while until it all of a sudden wound up with ammonia off the charts for weeks (just recently) kept trying to find a dead fish stuck somewhere... turns out was a big colony that was from old tank I didn’t know was there. They hung on, got buried and all died ... they were thriving down in my previous substrate and I didn’t know it, since I never saw them ... my actual culture tank for them is bare bottom so easier to collect. I also have Daphnia in with scuds as well, which is Another really good food for fish- Moina is small Daphnia, then there’s the bigger kind of Daphnia can get.
Thanks for sharing your experiences with them! They can represent quite a large amount of biomass and if they all die there would definitely be issues for sure. Fortunately they are really tough. My culture tanks are bare bottom too (much easier). Thanks for coming by!
Hadn't heard of scuds before finding your channel. Never seen any for sale in the LFS (UK) which is a shame because I would like to start culturing them. Maybe you should throw one under the microscope to give us a closer look!
I couldn’t find any in the uk, so ordered some scuds from a Danish seller, and they are doing well.
Species is Hyalella azteca.
Check out lyngs_aqua_gb on EBay.
I've actually put them under a scope. Here is the link I think th-cam.com/video/f7SIRiV_tTI/w-d-xo.html . Thanks so much for watching1
@@davidl5402 Thanks for letting everyone know!
I love those bristle nose plecos!
Thanks so much!
Yes to mulm video:) Scuds - Been growing scuds for a couple of years now - keep them in a few vases/bowls around my house with some substrate at bottom and moss and guppy grass - change out some water when I pull them to feed fish. Got mine from river in Virginia. The adults are about 1/4" which is too large for many of my fish to eat. I feed the smaller ones to most fish. The larger ones I kill with tweezers then feed to 6" cichlid and 12" loach - I kill them before feeding as that tank has canister filter and I really don't want a scud colony in that tank. NOTE: I have found the scuds are amazing at eating green hair algae. I had green hair algae on some plants including mayaca fluitans - put it in a cup with 20-30 scuds and they ate most of the algae in 1/2 a day without eating the plant. I have found that mine will eat what ever is easiest for them - they will eat their vase plants if there is not enough food for them but they won't bother the plants in any of my tanks because if they come out and try to get to a leaf, a fish hunts them. Also have a large snail that was growing green hair algae on it's shell!! Put it in the cup and scuds ate it off shell:) Live foods are awesome.
Thanks so much for sharing that with me! I use scuds as cleaners as well. They are so useful! Thanks again!
After a long hiatus, I started up an aquarium again about 3 months ago and only feed live foods. Black worms daphnia and scuds. The daphnia are killing me. The black worms not as bad. The scuds require zero effort and I actually harvest from there more than I intended to because they are such prolific breeders. I honestly spend more time watching the scuds than the display tank. Absolutely fantastic creatures.
Scuds are so easy! I agree.
Hi Eric... I think I'm going to look into this. I like raising foods for my fish. Never tried scuds yet.. You angels are amazing!!
Hey Deb! Thanks so much for coming by! If you decide to, let me know and i will send you some
Can't beat live food. Thanks Fred O
Always a pleasure Fred!
My fish love white worms. My Blue Betta flares up when he sees them in the container i put down infront of his tank before I use some tweezers to put a worm in.
I do a ' show ' for my community tank. I use the same container as with the betta , but I move it across the tank from left to right. They know what it means. And they get excited!.
My Bumble bee gobies sometimes eat frozen blood worms.. But will always move fast!! when they see the white worms squiggling about.
Love it! Thanks for sharing that with me!
Do you have a video about the actual scud tank itself. what’s in there for plants and how take care of them
I will try and include that in the next Sunday vlog
I hadn't heard of these until I saw this video, did a quick search online and we have these in Scottish rivers and lochs too. What is your culture setup like to maintain a decent population? Does the temperature affect them because rivers and lochs in Scotland are pretty cold all year round while ambient temperatures in my house will reach 28C (82F) in summer and obviously my aquariums do too. I wonder if that sort of temperature would kill them off.
Thanks for letting me know! My scuds are wild caught here in Canada and I suspect our winters are a little harsher than yours' lol! In my tanks they get a range of temps too and they don't seem to care. They are tough and I've never had a culture crash. Keeping them is super simple. They are in all of my tanks and haven't caused any issues. The culture tanks for them are just aquariums with UG filters and put a bunch of lava rock and live plants in there too. I just feed the tank with a good quality flake or pellet food as if it were full of fish. Hope that helps!
@@FishmanEricRussell Thanks for that. That sounds a nice and easy way to get live food. :)
I feed my scud culture hornwort I grow in my fish aquariums. Every few weeks I thin out the hornwort in my aquariums to feed to my scud cultures. Scuds will strip hornwort clean over time. A stink bug ended up stuck under the lid of one of my scud tanks. I left it to die. My scuds picked it clean in a few days. I'll toss in the occasional ones I come across from now one.
You've got some serious piranha scuds where you are lol. Mine won't eat anything other than old plant leaves and fish food
I netted some scuds in a creek close to my house twice, & put them in my 29 gallon aquarium wild patty tank with lots of plants I have a large ball of Java moss where I put my scuds, I assume that there are still in there the patties love them, but I also put 10 kulhi loaches in there a couple of years ago, & I almost never see them, they come out at night, I do know that they are bug eaters, so I am not sure if there are any skuds left in there or not because the kulhi loaches go down in the sub-straight to hunt bugs?
Scuds are great. There will be some left as they can find the tiniest cracks to hide in
Love the vid fishman. I tried scuds they did ok. What ive had good luck with are daphnia. Ive had cultures crash and they come back on their own.
Mulm Video
I vote yes
Thanks so much! Scuds are allot tougher and easier to culture than daphnia. Thanks for your input on the mulm video!
I would be interested in a series on harvesting wild food. I have a few water run offs and bodies of water in Rockland I was thinking of trying to get daphnia and other things from.
I think I will actually try and d that this year. Probably in early summer
I purchased scudd couture on Amazon and they were dead in 2 days. Not ready to try again yet.
Hey Richard! If you live in Canada I will send you some
Hey fish man, I caught some wild scuds and daphnia about a year ago and have a culture tank going but since catching them the daphnia are all gone and the only things still around are the scuds and seed shrimp... my question is about seed shrimp.. they are established in all my tanks and my fish will not eat them. Maybe they’re spoiled on brine shrimp and home made food but my guppies, danios, cichlid fry, rainbows, endlers... nobody will eat the seed shrimp.. I’ve seen plenty of fish catch them and spit them out almost immediately as if they taste bad..
Do you have any ideas on a nuclear option to get rid of scuds? I’m not concerned about plants or fish.. I have enough tanks to move fish and plants and go tank by tank and kill all the scuds. I just hate them. It would be one thing I’d my fish ate them but they don’t and I just want to start some of the tanks over and not have seed shrimp so I can give people plants and what not without having to say ( but there’s seed shrimp in them so beware...) any ideas? I was thinking copper sulfate.. I’ve tried bleach, hydrogen peroxide, potassium permanganate and emptying and completely drying out the tanks.. the little bastards just won’t go away...
All of my fish love eating scuds as you've seen in my videos, but there are many varieties and some scuds or seed shrimp may not be tasty. They are very tough, but those treatments you've already tried should have done the trick, especially the bleach. The only reason why they would be still around would have to come from being reintroduced when you add plants and fish back into the tank. Sorry but I don't have a miracle method for getting rid of them. Thanks for watching!
My scuds love to munch on green hair algae.
Cool! Thanks for the info!
the best live food is sushi ' oops, but that is dead" ...hahahaha nice share brotha, i think i am going to try infusia and other water culture when it gets a bit warmer...
"When it gets a bit warmer" lol Raliegh. Even at your coldest it will grow nicely. Thanks so much for coming by!
Totally awesome fish man we have not really done life food hardly ever we really focus on frozen Brian shrimp and blood worms and all the fish turtles and frogs we’ve ever had seem to love it tremendously plus honestly it’s just easier to manage and when you buy it in big huge amounts it’s quite inexpensive luckily we have a back up refrigerator that we could store these kind of things in it doesn’t take up a lot of room but harvesting your own is probably incredibly cost effective it’s just not something we’ve ever tried maybe someday but awesome video dude
Hey guys! Frozen would be the next best thing for sure and as you say it is allot more convenient. Thanks for coming by!
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Thanks so much!
I culture scuds as well. The most annoying part is how they hang onto the netting I use to pull them out of their container. It looks like you have better luck with a rigid material.
They still cling to it, but they do come off when I rinse it in the tank. Thanks for watching!
Never scudded, front show glass is the only glass I clean, sides/rear can be growing wild.
Same here. I only clean the fronts for videos as well lol
Great information brother 👍👍👍
Thanks so much!
Daphnia magna is one of the best live food.
Tubifex, moina, ans bloodworm also good but they are situational
Like dqphnia magna you can give the small DM(Daphnia magna) to fry and the adult to every fish. Moina only first week to 3months tubifex only good for grow booster
Daphnia are great too! I plan on culturing some this year. Thanks for coming by!
Really interesting!
Thanks so much!
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Thanks so much!
Fairy shrimp?
I would love to get some!
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Thanks so much!
I use daphnia & Moina
Also great!
@@FishmanEricRussell but I wish to try scuds now that I saw your video.. where do I get scuds? ...realy dig your channel
@@kyoatbites7865 You should be able to find them in any flowing water where there are lots of plants and rocks
@@FishmanEricRussell thx you ill kep my eyes open for them
@@kyoatbites7865 Best of luck and let me know how it goes