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Re: Daphnia and Riccia at SF auction	tnbue-@earthlink.net
	Oct 03, 2003 13:09 PDT

Yeah, well, if you can manage to kill daphnia, think of the possibilities... I transferred them from a sink-sized washtub to a 2 liter soda bottle, them got the brilliant idea of feeding them part of a crumbled up algae wafer...maybe the idea was OK, but the quantity definitely was not. The wafer decayed...the bacterial explosion, combined with the small opening in the bottle caused an O2 deficit...and odiferousness. -----Original Message----- From: Naomi Mizumoto <naom-@mac.com>; Sent: Oct 3, 2003 11:34 AM To: detr-@topica.com Subject: Re: [detritus] Daphnia and Riccia at SF auction Can I ask how you "managed to kill them..."? I'm curious because I've heard that AmQuel can wipe out an entire culture of daphnia. Otherwise, the little buggers are really easy to keep! I had some a few years ago but I suspect this is how I introduced hydra into my tank. So I stopped for fear of further contamination. Just curious... Sorry I don't know where you could get more. -Naomi At 10:50 AM 10/3/2003, you wrote:   I bought some daphnia at the auction a couple of months ago...managed to kill them last week. If anyone has them I'd love to buy some. The breeding pair of Koi angels I bought at the last auction spawned the third time (!) last Saturday and the fry's yolk sacs wil be absorbed by tomorrow. I have microworms going and brine shrimp eggs on hand, but it would be nice to have daphnia as well. I have a fair amount of riccia I could bring, but it has duckweed growing in it. Would people still be interested in it?

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