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!
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.
Thank you very much for the info! I bought my scuds online supposedly from clean tanks... Nevertheless, I use separate nurseries to quarantine all new "things" before moving them into main aquariums.
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.
Your fish are going to love scuds 😁 I have now 3 tanks for breeding scuds - take scuds from one tank every month for feeding fish. This way I get to the first tank in a couple months when new scuds already grown.
I have videos already published just about that. hmm...here is a playlist about using algae scrubber: th-cam.com/video/4s2QbXm34Oo/w-d-xo.html Algae scrubber is probably most effective way to get a lot of algae and fast. Though, I went the no-man-made way relying on the Nature to do the work. Here is a playlist of doubled wall aquariums I use for culturing/growing algae without use of air pumps and such: th-cam.com/video/Gbdmf66XUSQ/w-d-xo.html It is much slower and less productive way compare to algae scrubber.
I used selective inline breeding to get the strain of dwarf guppies with specific traits (small size and less babies). Here is a playlist of videos about it: th-cam.com/video/6bVil0QVZvM/w-d-xo.html And here is some data I collected that could be useful: docs.google.com/document/d/1lfHyYHmW2u-9aYqA8X19pGkENQpSqnF9w1bvg9Nvha0/pub
@@4me Yes, I was immediately impressed by how small they are! If you have any for sale, please let me know. (I am local to NYC.) Regardless, thanks again for sharing your hard work.
@@jeffreydlazar I never sell my dwarfs - I gave them away after completing all my projects with guppies. Now I keep and breed Blue Star Endlers - love them!
@@jeffreydlazar in a few years, your standard guppies/endlers in a small aquarium in 3-4-5 generation without quality professional feeding will become dwarf. 😉
@@4me Oh I see. That’s nice man so the plants pretty much cleans the water, right? Therefore just have to top them when water level gets too low. I have no plants so I probably have to remove the mason jar water.
@@willitine The short answer is Yes. The long answer is - Land plants growing with roots in aquarium sure help to take waste dissolved in water. Though, cleaning water in aquariums as in the Nature starts with bacteria and common green algae. They are the first and most efficient filters known on our planet. They break down the waste that later gets dissolved in water and consumed by plants. There are also tiny aquatic critters that feed on wilting plants and dead organic matter. Much of that happens on the level we need timelapse recordings and microscopes to see. It's all part of one complicated ecosystem that works seamlessly making it appear as simple until man start middling in with water changes and man made filters.
@@rattlerboi4034 Some of them always survive in my aquariums with fish. Though, you can setup a small nursery for them without fish just for breeding. I did this way just to have a fallback culture for emergency.
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?
Scuds prefer to eat wilting leaves - it helps plants in number of ways. The natural way to control density population of scuds is to feed them to fish. I achieve it by keeping scuds in aquariums with fish.
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
First thing first as for any aquarium -the diameter of the jar has to be more than 3 length of the largest fish. Than I would start with one breeding family of guppies. 1 female and 2 males. In my experience, guppies are better in figuring out how much to breed than any one else. In the following two years you will see the density population goes up to the maximum and then goes down and repeat. Just as it does with any leaving organism (except human). For breeding purpose - the aquarium size is as important as any other parameters (water quality, available food and etc). They don't breed if you don't provide, and they will breed less if you provide less food, and they will breed more if you provide more food. The same goes with space. Have fun and happy fish :)
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 ?
Well, there are a couple ways to get started. You can get scuds, daphnia and who-knows-what-else from local ponds, by pulling out some aquatic plants. And than go through the samples separating it all in different tanks for quarantine. Check this video for more details: th-cam.com/video/mQb7cKeTKqA/w-d-xo.html Warm season is the best time for picking wild samples. Another way is to check your local pet stores, Craigslist and such for clean cultures. And online shopping. All the best on your adventure!
I have stack of dry mulberry tree leaves ready for feeding my critters all year around. Those leaves are eatable (my fish and critters love them), and those leaves are ready available for me to harvest from trees growing right next to my home - naturally it makes mulberry tree leaves my first choice 🙂Also, I tried every available locally leaves - Mulberry leaves (листья шелковицы) are the best in this regards.
Thank you! You can keep / culture / farm scuds in a separate aquarium or in aquarium with some small fish just like I do. Though, culturing them in a separate aquarium would give you more control of the population growth. In aquariums with fish the population growth of scuds is controlled by fish.
@@ggssquad7214 You have to get them somewhere... Scuds actually are native to many fresh water lakes, ponds and rivers. You may be able to catch some during warm season. Or buy them online. There is also chance of getting them with aquatic plants sold online.
@@karlgrant2121 The adult tiger barbs about 3 times bigger than my dwarf guppies. So, the adult barbs will eat large adult scuds, but may not be so interested in younger small size scuds. Small young scuds would be food for younger smaller fish.
Planarian were one of the first wild critters I come across in my aquariums. There are many things to like planarian for - ability to reproduce/ clone from tiny fraction is the first that comes on mind. And planarians are great natural indicator of water quality used in labs. I have videos about Planarians on this playlist: th-cam.com/video/Nep3VHyluIQ/w-d-xo.html
@@bubblerings I don't see my fish get any harm from planarian. Planarian may attack eggs - I actually recorded planarian attack on snails eggs (you can check it out in this video: th-cam.com/video/P8ojXPHSMh8/w-d-xo.html).
@@4me Thank you.. 👍🍻 I can also confirm a report from Aquarimax's video.. Scuds led to decline of my Ramshorn Snail breeding tank.. No breeding / eggs in months, and adults started dying in good water. 🚨Scuds seemed to even eat slime off of live snails. Snails are multiplying well, since I pulled them from the scuds. 👍👍
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
Adult scuds will try it for sure and if they like it... Setup another nursery with the plants and moss you want to check on with scuds to see how it goes. It could be any size nursery for this purpose. All the best on your adventure!
Thank you very much! I use different size tanks for different projects. The glass jars size range from 1 to 3 liters, vases from 1.5 to 8 liters, and I have standard shape aquariums up to 30 gal. The jars come from glossaries stores - I bought pickles and jams 🙂
Sure! I move cuttings of plants between aquariums once in a couple months just for this purpose. Seed shrimp, snails, scuds and whatever else critters always come with plants.
Scuds are different from shrimp. Though, you can farm all kind of shrimp including neocaridina. There will be difference in care and I suppose in purpose to. I farm scuds for feeding fish. Neocaridna are more like pets to me - I would not feed them to my fish.
@@salvo8636 I don't have experience with endlers. I just got endlers the other day. They look different and seems to behave differently...though, it could be just stress of first days in new aquarium... I need more time to tell you anything for sure about endlers. One thing for sure, endlers (pure breed) suppose to have different breeding pattern.
Hi neighbor! I moved away from keeping scuds in separate nurseries. Now I keep them in the same aquariums with fish. It makes it easy for fish to pick snacks. The colonies of scuds in each aquarium is never to large to have any spare to give away.
@@sisterlockmo No. I bought them on Ebay. Here is a video showing the package and how I started with Gammarus: th-cam.com/video/JPhvcTBTl_g/w-d-xo.html Also, I got some Gammarus on different occasions along with aquatic plants from different sources (friends, pet shops and from Central park as well). However, on those occasions I made no efforts to culture Gammarus and...well, basically I get rid of them before placing into my main aquariums.
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!
Mosses serve really well as sanctuaries for scuds. Though, scuds chew them fast too :)
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
My pleasure!
All the best on your TH-cam adventures!!
@@4me thank you 🙏
Another really inspiring video Michael, happy aquarium gardens 😊🍀
Thank you very much!
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.
Thank you very much for the info!
I bought my scuds online supposedly from clean tanks... Nevertheless, I use separate nurseries to quarantine all new "things" before moving them into main aquariums.
@@4me Yes I knew you would be smart ! I only posted to advise others :)
@@MoreChannelNoise Thank you!
I'm actually trying to raise and breed some of these great video
All the best on your adventure!
I subbed! You have nice jar fish tanks. Also try adding Indian almond leaves they can clean the water.
Thank you very much!
I will look for Indian almond leaves to check it out.
@@4me yeah. They are very good and can clean the water. But they can also make the water brown but that is natural for your fish.
@@njnature3340 Slight discoloration of water in aquariums make them look even more attractive to me.
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.
Your fish are going to love scuds 😁
I have now 3 tanks for breeding scuds - take scuds from one tank every month for feeding fish. This way I get to the first tank in a couple months when new scuds already grown.
Hey make a video on how to culture alge to feed shrimp please!! :))
I have videos already published just about that.
hmm...here is a playlist about using algae scrubber: th-cam.com/video/4s2QbXm34Oo/w-d-xo.html Algae scrubber is probably most effective way to get a lot of algae and fast.
Though, I went the no-man-made way relying on the Nature to do the work. Here is a playlist of doubled wall aquariums I use for culturing/growing algae without use of air pumps and such: th-cam.com/video/Gbdmf66XUSQ/w-d-xo.html It is much slower and less productive way compare to algae scrubber.
Great video. Thank you very much! Question please: where/how do you obtain your dwarf guppies?
I used selective inline breeding to get the strain of dwarf guppies with specific traits (small size and less babies).
Here is a playlist of videos about it: th-cam.com/video/6bVil0QVZvM/w-d-xo.html
And here is some data I collected that could be useful: docs.google.com/document/d/1lfHyYHmW2u-9aYqA8X19pGkENQpSqnF9w1bvg9Nvha0/pub
@@4me Yes, I was immediately impressed by how small they are! If you have any for sale, please let me know. (I am local to NYC.) Regardless, thanks again for sharing your hard work.
@@jeffreydlazar I never sell my dwarfs - I gave them away after completing all my projects with guppies. Now I keep and breed Blue Star Endlers - love them!
@@jeffreydlazar in a few years, your standard guppies/endlers in a small aquarium in 3-4-5 generation without quality professional feeding will become dwarf. 😉
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.
I don't change water in my aquarium gardens since 20216. I add water to the level as necessary - that is the best way in my opinion.
@@4me Oh I see. That’s nice man so the plants pretty much cleans the water, right? Therefore just have to top them when water level gets too low. I have no plants so I probably have to remove the mason jar water.
@@willitine The short answer is Yes. The long answer is - Land plants growing with roots in aquarium sure help to take waste dissolved in water. Though, cleaning water in aquariums as in the Nature starts with bacteria and common green algae. They are the first and most efficient filters known on our planet. They break down the waste that later gets dissolved in water and consumed by plants. There are also tiny aquatic critters that feed on wilting plants and dead organic matter. Much of that happens on the level we need timelapse recordings and microscopes to see. It's all part of one complicated ecosystem that works seamlessly making it appear as simple until man start middling in with water changes and man made filters.
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.
I buy pickles in Russian/Polish food stores - those come in all size jars up to 5 liters
🙏😎
Thank you very much!
I caught scuds at the local river, hopefully they can help keep the turtle tank clean
All the best on your adventure!
@@4me thanks, hopefully these are tiny and fast enough not to get eaten.
@@rattlerboi4034 Some of them always survive in my aquariums with fish. Though, you can setup a small nursery for them without fish just for breeding. I did this way just to have a fallback culture for emergency.
@@4me ye that's what I'm doing actually, though it's mostly to minimize risk of parasites and desease
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?
Scuds prefer to eat wilting leaves - it helps plants in number of ways.
The natural way to control density population of scuds is to feed them to fish. I achieve it by keeping scuds in aquariums with fish.
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
I will make video about macroalgae when I build a saltwater aquarium. That would be one of the first thing to study!
How many guppies can you safely keep in jars like these?
First thing first as for any aquarium -the diameter of the jar has to be more than 3 length of the largest fish. Than I would start with one breeding family of guppies. 1 female and 2 males. In my experience, guppies are better in figuring out how much to breed than any one else. In the following two years you will see the density population goes up to the maximum and then goes down and repeat. Just as it does with any leaving organism (except human). For breeding purpose - the aquarium size is as important as any other parameters (water quality, available food and etc). They don't breed if you don't provide, and they will breed less if you provide less food, and they will breed more if you provide more food. The same goes with space.
Have fun and happy fish :)
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 ?
Yes. Pea puffers are carnivores and should be chasing after scuds.
How to get starter scuds Daphnia on Milton Keynes??
Well, there are a couple ways to get started. You can get scuds, daphnia and who-knows-what-else from local ponds, by pulling out some aquatic plants. And than go through the samples separating it all in different tanks for quarantine. Check this video for more details: th-cam.com/video/mQb7cKeTKqA/w-d-xo.html Warm season is the best time for picking wild samples.
Another way is to check your local pet stores, Craigslist and such for clean cultures. And online shopping.
All the best on your adventure!
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
Do you keep daphnia in a separate from fish aquariums for breeding?
@@4me yes
@@KitCat666 Way to go!
2:12 почему именно Mulberry ?
I have stack of dry mulberry tree leaves ready for feeding my critters all year around. Those leaves are eatable (my fish and critters love them), and those leaves are ready available for me to harvest from trees growing right next to my home - naturally it makes mulberry tree leaves my first choice 🙂Also, I tried every available locally leaves - Mulberry leaves (листья шелковицы) are the best in this regards.
So how did you culture them? New subscriber here
Thank you!
You can keep / culture / farm scuds in a separate aquarium or in aquarium with some small fish just like I do. Though, culturing them in a separate aquarium would give you more control of the population growth. In aquariums with fish the population growth of scuds is controlled by fish.
@@4me so you need starter to culture them?
@@ggssquad7214 You have to get them somewhere...
Scuds actually are native to many fresh water lakes, ponds and rivers. You may be able to catch some during warm season. Or buy them online. There is also chance of getting them with aquatic plants sold online.
@@4me Ok thanks
@@ggssquad7214 My pleasure!
I hate scuds what FISH EATS THEM??
Guppies and Endlers eat scuds - those that they can swallow in one bite for sure. Betta fish and many other will hunt scuds as well.
@@4me I have albino Strawberry Tiger Barbs. Would they go after them?
@@karlgrant2121 The adult tiger barbs about 3 times bigger than my dwarf guppies. So, the adult barbs will eat large adult scuds, but may not be so interested in younger small size scuds. Small young scuds would be food for younger smaller fish.
please buy bigger tanks
I build or buy aquariums of different sizes based on needs of each particular project. Do you have any particular project in mind for me to do?
@@4me Yes put the fish in those jars in a bigger tank, how about that
And the purpose of this project is...? Thanks
Guppies have teeth.
That doesn’t mean there aren’t scuds too big for them to eat, but let’s not spread misinformation.
Okay. Agree. Guppies have teeth. Tiny teeth. Guppies can and do nibble on everything. Nibble, not bite. Those tiny teeth do not allow them to bite.
This is the method I want to try.
Best wishes to you!
Where do you get the lids for your jars?
I buy food (pickles, jam, juice and etc) in jars - they all come with lids.
Thanks for another video! Miss your voice narrated vids though, I tend to miss out some details while reading. All the best Michael!
My pleasure!
I may go back for making videos with voice in future...will see how it goes.
@@4me excellent!
Why so you like planarian Michael can you makes video on that topic
Planarian were one of the first wild critters I come across in my aquariums. There are many things to like planarian for - ability to reproduce/ clone from tiny fraction is the first that comes on mind. And planarians are great natural indicator of water quality used in labs. I have videos about Planarians on this playlist: th-cam.com/video/Nep3VHyluIQ/w-d-xo.html
Yes... People complain about them and how to get rid of them.
Do they harm fish or eat eggs or fry?
@@bubblerings I don't see my fish get any harm from planarian. Planarian may attack eggs - I actually recorded planarian attack on snails eggs (you can check it out in this video: th-cam.com/video/P8ojXPHSMh8/w-d-xo.html).
@@4me Thank you.. 👍🍻
I can also confirm a report from Aquarimax's video..
Scuds led to decline of my Ramshorn Snail breeding tank.. No breeding / eggs in months, and adults started dying in good water. 🚨Scuds seemed to even eat slime off of live snails.
Snails are multiplying well, since I pulled them from the scuds. 👍👍
@@bubblerings Thank you very much for sharing!
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
Scuds feed on duckweed or any plants growing in my aquariums too.
''when the student is ready, the teacher will arrive''. universal law of synchronicity.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thank you very much!
will they eat java moss? thinking to adding them to my plant nursery but concerned about my sizeable java moss clump
Adult scuds will try it for sure and if they like it...
Setup another nursery with the plants and moss you want to check on with scuds to see how it goes. It could be any size nursery for this purpose.
All the best on your adventure!
Wow those tanks are amazing! What size jars are those? Where are they repurposed from? 😮🤩👌👍
Thank you very much! I use different size tanks for different projects. The glass jars size range from 1 to 3 liters, vases from 1.5 to 8 liters, and I have standard shape aquariums up to 30 gal.
The jars come from glossaries stores - I bought pickles and jams 🙂
Still good to add some different scuds every so often to keep up the genetic diversity, no?
Sure!
I move cuttings of plants between aquariums once in a couple months just for this purpose. Seed shrimp, snails, scuds and whatever else critters always come with plants.
Why did ypu add sea shells
They hide under stuff like that.
Seashells dissolve slowly in aquariums serve very well as source of calcium necessary for scuds, snails and such for healthy grow.
Hi. Can I do the same with neocaridina?
Scuds are different from shrimp. Though, you can farm all kind of shrimp including neocaridina. There will be difference in care and I suppose in purpose to. I farm scuds for feeding fish. Neocaridna are more like pets to me - I would not feed them to my fish.
@@4me OK thanks! Do you have experience with endlers? Do you think they are so different from your dwarf guppies?
@@salvo8636 I don't have experience with endlers. I just got endlers the other day. They look different and seems to behave differently...though, it could be just stress of first days in new aquarium...
I need more time to tell you anything for sure about endlers. One thing for sure, endlers (pure breed) suppose to have different breeding pattern.
@@4me ok. I will look forward to the endlers’s videos 👍
I’m in nyc Harlem. Can I get some scuds from you?
Hi neighbor!
I moved away from keeping scuds in separate nurseries. Now I keep them in the same aquariums with fish. It makes it easy for fish to pick snacks. The colonies of scuds in each aquarium is never to large to have any spare to give away.
I have to think of a way to get a sizable colony.
If it’s to much trouble don’t bother.
Michael did you get your scuds from Central Park ?
@@sisterlockmo No. I bought them on Ebay. Here is a video showing the package and how I started with Gammarus: th-cam.com/video/JPhvcTBTl_g/w-d-xo.html
Also, I got some Gammarus on different occasions along with aquatic plants from different sources (friends, pet shops and from Central park as well). However, on those occasions I made no efforts to culture Gammarus and...well, basically I get rid of them before placing into my main aquariums.
Scuds are they also known as daphnia to
no, its not same scud and daphnia
Daphnia is different species. They look, feed, and breed differently.