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Microfauna Biodiversity in your Freshwater Aquarium 

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A diverse population of microfauna is critical for the balancing of any freshwater aquarium ecosystem. Simply put, the more microscopic life you have in your tank the better! Here you will see just a few of creatures that make their home at Phillips Fish Works. We are constantly taking samples from our fish breeding system, microfauna tanks and scum jars looking to see what's swimming around. In this video you will see Ostracods "seed shrimp", Daphnia "water flea", Amphipods "scud shrimp", Gastrotrich, Cyclops "copepod", Vorticella, Stentor, Paramecium, Amoeba and many more.
If you spend some time observing these microscopic lifeforms you will see they are all participating in a seesaw balancing act. Over time populations of different microorganisms will rise and fall eventually resulting in a stable balanced aquarium. This balance is greatly supported by the introduction of new microfauna into the tank. These new microscopic creatures add to the biodiversity which given time will help the stability of the ecosystem.
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@abelarredondo4448
@abelarredondo4448 Месяц назад
Thank you for showing the different kinds of organisms
@jasonyang5296
@jasonyang5296 Год назад
This guy is the real deal. Hes doing it for the hobby🎉❤❤
@phillipsfishworks
@phillipsfishworks Год назад
Thank you for the kind words!.. I've always been drawn to the natural way no matter the hobby or interest. These videos are representing my experience. I promise to always show the good the bad and the ugly 😁😁😁
@ReignBeauofTerror
@ReignBeauofTerror Год назад
I'm so glad I found you, and I can't wait to get your insect bag for my aquarium!
@RockhillfarmYT
@RockhillfarmYT 2 месяца назад
Biodiversity is definitely the key to any ecosystem
@boiboi5942
@boiboi5942 10 месяцев назад
i just got into the aquarium hobby and honestly i’m having more fun sucking up microbes with a pipette and looking at them under my microscope😅
@gibbieraven
@gibbieraven Год назад
01:49, Profound words of wisdom (along with such an informative video). Thank You!
@RoyIMVU
@RoyIMVU 3 месяца назад
I want to start a shrimp tank and have had freshwater moss growing nicely and was worried when I noticed these small creatures. After doing some research on these, I find some are actually beneficial
@ismailroyer466
@ismailroyer466 Год назад
Brilliantly said.
@phillipsfishworks
@phillipsfishworks Год назад
Thanks! I really appreciate your kind words! 😁
@jimmyfredoc5441
@jimmyfredoc5441 11 месяцев назад
AMEN !!!!
@lacreiataylor8838
@lacreiataylor8838 3 месяца назад
Love your page...but can you do videos on when and how to introduce them to your tank? And how much for the size tank vs the amount of fish to not eat the population to quick
@robertbaker3174
@robertbaker3174 Год назад
Excellent! Still trying to figure out to keep some of these things going. Had some seed shrimp in a grow out tank and have now now. Do have scuds and works well as fry grow.
@phillipsfishworks
@phillipsfishworks Год назад
Thanks for watching! The scuds will do fine as the fish grow. When the fish are big enough they will eat the larger scuds. The fry will eat the newborn baby scuds. I always like to keep several tanks going that do not have fish in them to keep up populations of microphona... You can always feed them veggie scraps.
@Rorther
@Rorther Год назад
@@phillipsfishworks It's really ideal, but so hard to keep if we are just going casual with 1 tank. Because if population of anything gets extincted, you don't have spare to repopulate. Keeping different tanks is also good because increases genetic variability a bit.
@skarr4485
@skarr4485 4 месяца назад
The editing and music on this video is so eerie lmao
@Jay9595
@Jay9595 3 месяца назад
Question. Can micro fauna establish themselves over time or do they need to be added???? If the first one is true, how do they get there???
@VetrivelR-zu3ks
@VetrivelR-zu3ks 2 месяца назад
They usually get on plants and other hardscape. Some bacteria even come through waste of fish from their digestive system
@danishshaikh4979
@danishshaikh4979 24 дня назад
They mostly need to be added. You get them from streams, rivers, ponds. Collect some leaf litter and fill up with the same water source in a jar. Wait two three weeks and add those organisms into your tank
@mcjigger5364
@mcjigger5364 4 месяца назад
Hey, thanks for sharing your knowledge.. I have 8.0 - 8.3 ph tank, is it too alkaline for scuds / cyclops / daphnia ? Second question, do you just put dry leave right away to the tank, or you have some process beforehand?
@AquaticDomain
@AquaticDomain Год назад
How would you go about adding biodiversity to a african cichlid mbuna tank? It's a 120g with a 20g long sump. Do you recommend removing sponge filter on intake and converting to a refugium? I am trying to run my light extra time to give them a good supply of algae with pretty good success. What would be the ideal sump/fuge setup? Should it be more like a saltware fuge?
@phillipsfishworks
@phillipsfishworks Год назад
In refugium is a good idea. Could also do it in the main tank. You just need an area that the fish can not disturb easily like large rock, rock piles... If you want to make the sump a refugium I would remove the sponge off the intake. You need the creatures to be able to freely travel. Good luck and interesting idea!
@AquaticDomain
@AquaticDomain Год назад
@@phillipsfishworks thank you Phillip. I’ll remove the sponges and filter socks I was using.
@michellelovesanimals2237
@michellelovesanimals2237 Год назад
This is the first I ever heard to just leave the planaria be.
@phillipsfishworks
@phillipsfishworks Год назад
In most situations they are simply not a big deal... if there population is enormous and causing a "real" problem then you could manually remove them with those glass tube planaria traps but I would personally not chemically treat for them... you must observe what they are really doing in your aquarium. Thanks for the comment!
@michellelovesanimals2237
@michellelovesanimals2237 Год назад
@@phillipsfishworks thankyou for your reply. I will never use chemicals in my tank. 🐌🦐 I am starting to think it's rhab not planaria🧡
@babykrishu4319
@babykrishu4319 5 месяцев назад
Can i add even if my resurrection jar is stinking??
@Militantaoist
@Militantaoist Год назад
What do you think the easiest way to quickly “culture” microfauna for an aquarium?
@phillipsfishworks
@phillipsfishworks Год назад
It starts with making sure the habitat is right for the microfauna... This does not need to be complicated. Could be coarse gravel on top of sand, leaf litter, live plants, floating plants, a layer of detritus or mulm... After you have the habitat then you need to add the microfauna. If you're using live plants or have a layer of mulm built-up there will already be some microfauna present. But there are ways to add more diversity to it. Adding plants, gravel or other material out of a established aquarium is one way... I am about 2 days away from launching my website. There I will have microfauna biodiversity packs available for sale. This would be a bag of material and microfauna out of my system that could be added directly to an aquarium or separate container for culturing... Bottom line is you need some kind of container with habitat in it and some microfauna. At that point give it a light, a small amount of food and some time to grow. Hope this helps.
@jonisolis9645
@jonisolis9645 7 месяцев назад
❤🧡💛💚💙💜
@Am.a.Stranger
@Am.a.Stranger Год назад
May i know what is that on 4:28 anyone? Is good or bad?
@phillipsfishworks
@phillipsfishworks Год назад
The little tulip shaped creatures?
@Am.a.Stranger
@Am.a.Stranger Год назад
@@phillipsfishworks yeah.
@seanharris7047
@seanharris7047 4 месяца назад
​@@Am.a.StrangerI'm late but I'm pretty sure it's Vorticella, a filter-feeding ciliate.
@Sea-cucumber1151
@Sea-cucumber1151 8 месяцев назад
Hydra took over my tank, and I have scuds, snails, shrimp, seed shrimp etc. so I did kill the hydra!
@fanyoktavia1703
@fanyoktavia1703 11 месяцев назад
how i cant grow that white dot flea, my stupid greedy glowfish always wipe them out even with 50%++ plant , floating plant from wild n very thick substrate(mud, gravel,sand). the only thing is grow is snail+tubifex sp
@Gmnjean
@Gmnjean Месяц назад
So they will eat my fris ?
@NatureStudio25
@NatureStudio25 10 месяцев назад
How can i do this ? How can i have huge bio diversity?
@phillipsfishworks
@phillipsfishworks 10 месяцев назад
Lots of ways to do this... You can add material to your aquarium from another healthy established aquarium, experiment with wild samples or buy some kind of microfauna culture... Bottom line is if there are no micro creatures in your aquarium, they will not magically appear. They have to be introduced somehow. Good luck!
@NatureStudio25
@NatureStudio25 10 месяцев назад
@@phillipsfishworks well I'm from India so I can't buy from you , then the only thing that I can do is to get from the wild ! 🙂 well that's kinda risky !
@MrGigi-dz9cv
@MrGigi-dz9cv 11 месяцев назад
You did not mention leeches.
@juliorivera870
@juliorivera870 Год назад
Is fishtank water safe to drink?
@phillipsfishworks
@phillipsfishworks Год назад
I avoid drinking it. Depends on your definition of safe... Don't do it 😁 Thanks for the comment and watching!
@juliorivera870
@juliorivera870 Год назад
@@phillipsfishworks some people add green tea to the guppies and scoop a spot of tea with them
@phillipsfishworks
@phillipsfishworks Год назад
Doesn't surprise me one bit lol 😁
@juliorivera870
@juliorivera870 Год назад
@@phillipsfishworks L😂L
@pescasefu
@pescasefu 11 месяцев назад
No. It's like drinking water from a pond or a lake. You can have no symptoms or just a nice explosive diarrhea.
@ornn6177
@ornn6177 Год назад
planaria kill my shrimp I kill planaria its that simple
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