How to Make GREEN WATER | Perfect Live Food for Baby Fish!!! 

Great point about daphnia clearing up green water!

The geekiness is strong in this one!

Everyone needs one of those "gross" tanks...lots of great critters in the soup!

Sounds like a great fry food tank!

I look forward to seeing your green water vintage!

How did this work out for you Bentley?

@@vb2377 haven't had space

We all do, Marit!

Freeeee fooooood!!!!

I hear you...it ain't pretty.

LOL! Geeks rule the world :)

One week and you already have the green stuff...that's great! When I siphon out the mulm in the scud tank, I run the water through a net with mesh large enough to catch the adult scuds, but not the mulm. Then, I swirl the water in the bucket with the mulm until the mulm is concentrated in the center. Then, I take a piece of repashy or other food and put it in the bucket towards the sides where there is the least amount of mulm. When the repashy is covered with the baby scuds that made it through the net, I scoop the chunk or repashy and the scuds out with a brine shrimp net and put them back in the culture. I don't save all the scuds this way, but I get a lot of them.

Always a pleasure, Little Bobby

Not sure where you can get scuds in AU. I got mine on Ebay a long time ago. If you can't purchase any, you may be able to find some under the rocks in your local creek and go from there.

Yes, indeed!

It is

Happy to finally make this vid!

Brantov, thanks so much!

Ebay is where I got mine.

Sure...small fish raised in green water often grow very quickly.

I don't know of any commonly kept aquarium fish that would eat green water at an adult size. It would be great for filter feeders like clams and bamboo shrimp, but probably not so much for fish once they get a bit of size on them.

They are wonderful creatures...unless you are trying to raise shrimp. Then they are a pain. But, in general, such great fish food.

@@DansFish I've only ever kept them with cherry shrimp, but have had no trouble keeping them together

Always a pleasure, Tom!

It is my first time trying to culture green water. What I found out is, I can get green water in 24-30 hours with white light on all the time and it need air bubbles.

I’m not sure if coral woud eat it

And tasty, too :)

@@DansFish That's funny I exactly drank a bunch of duck weed today.

notNolajane FishRich 🤣😂🤣

*gulp* Oooops!!!!! :)

Glad you liked it...thanks for watching.

Michelle Gibson do you add it when you remove the plants or just whenever you want?

Danzo I add it whenever I want to have green water if it needs a top up I add more.

@@michellegibson3899 gotcha, thanks!

Sounds like a great way to do it!

And DELICIOUS !

My guess is that perhaps you are getting so much infusoria, that the green water is getting eaten by them. Infusoria, however, are also great fry food, so not really a problem.

I wanted to dress up like a Victorian Age aristocrat for the thumbnail...but this had to do!

Thanks for asking all the questions I should have covered in the vid, but didn't. 1. Once the plants are removed, the water gets green in a week or two 2. I keep the lights on roughly 14 hours a day If you drink it, I'll think about drinking it :)

I moght be a year late to the party, but ill go shot for shot on algae water, lets geek out.

Greenwater is not typically thick. What is probably happening is an infestation of some kind of thick surface growing algae. It is fine for a while but, if it gets too thick, it could hamper O2 exchange at the surface.

Thanks, Dave!

It was DELICIOUS!

Groovy!

Hope it goes well for you. I've never tried fairy shrimp...one day!

I like your Ebay store. Bought a few of your fish already.

Ambist, thanks for noticing the thumbnail. Took a while to get it right. #pinkyup

Mr. McConaughey has spoken!

That is true!

If you have small fry and limited space, you can do an infusoria culture in a jar. Be warned, however, that those jar cultures can smell pretty bad!

@@DansFish Thanks but No. haha..

I'm curious if you could somehow filter the algae out of the possibly toxic water medium.

They say hello a lot then!

You can keep scuds in green water, but daphnia will eat all the green water in short order. In fact, daphnia is a great way to get rid of green water if you have it and don't want it. To maintain it, I just feed the tank and keep the light on. I change the water in the aquarium like I would in a normal fish tank and I run a sponge filter like I would in a normal fish tank. One nice thing about scuds is they keep the sponge filter very clean, so it does not get clogged up with particulates from the green water. I don't have a vid up on culturing blackworms yet...it is on the list to do. Hope that helps!

@@DansFish Yes and thank you!😊

No idea which species I have. Whatever was on Ebay when I purchased them years ago.

Sure, as a supplement. But, green water is free floating in the water column and cory fry need food on the substrate to get in a good feed.

I just keep the tank at my normal fish room temps....mid 70s to low 80s. I've never tried to keep scuds with any shrimp. I think they would out compete the shrimp.

@@DansFish Thanks :)

I drink enough green water, and all the fish start to glow :)

I got my original culture on Ebay. I hope to have some to sell soon, but those puffers eat a LOT!!!

Dans Fish pee puffers?

Try using uv sterilizer filters, works everytime :D

I've never seen scuds hurt fish or fry.

Absolutely.

Hello Dovine, I got my original colony of scuds off of Ebay.

Yes! This is exactly how I would go about raising empire gudgeon fry once they were free swimming.

@@DansFish hmmm, coupled with some farms having success with breeding them in outdoor ponds (or so I hear), this seems plausible.

Sure. Most any fry from aquarium sized fish will eat green water or the organisms within the green water.

Dans Fish can you give any advice for doing this on a quick lil green water culture instead of a whole tank? I’ve heard u can do it by leaving a jar of tank water in the sun with grass clippings?