Breed amphipods in your planted tank: the easiest freshwater live food

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Amphipods are such an easy live food to culture and harvest for your freshwater aquarium. Tons of smallish to medium sized fish will enjoy hunting these guys down, not to mention, they are a really healthy meal! 🥬🦐
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Chapters
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0:00 - What are scuds?
1:29 - Releasing and culturing
2:42 - Harvesting method 1
6:29 - Harvesting method 2
7:30 - Dinner time!
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Thanks for watching, hope you're able to find scuds. If you live along the Front Range and you aren't able to find any, let me know. Maybe I'll share 😊
#aquarium #fishtank #livefood #plantedtank

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@coreygruber8381 11 ай бұрын

Thought I was watching md for a sec lol new sub. Awesome scape background makes it pop

@freshflowaquatics 11 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣 Representing bald & bearded fish lovers of the new world. Thanks for watching!

@shawnkowalczewski4382 11 ай бұрын

What a beautiful betta.

@freshflowaquatics 11 ай бұрын

Thanks! He's changed colors a lot since i got him; he used to be mostly white.

@pascal590 2 ай бұрын

He’s beautiful. Where did u buy him?

@crazyhuman7541 6 ай бұрын

I love these little guy's i keep them as pets

@freshflowaquatics 6 ай бұрын

They are fun to watch, like little sideways shrimp.

@volcanixthanksyoufortheviewz 11 ай бұрын

I love my lil scud. I have one of those .5 gallon desktop aquariums that i have my culture in. I use a pipette to move some over to my aquariums. I also have daphnia and detritus worms i culture for my tanks. The more microfauna, the better, I am raising Gambusia affinis, my first generation was wild caught so im excited to see what the next few bring! I have endlers and khuli loches as well, but they prefer daphnia and pellets lol, but i did get them from a LFS, so im not to surprised. Side note: how did you get the Monte-Carlo so gorgeous 😍 ❤

@freshflowaquatics 11 ай бұрын

That's awesome, those little critters really are a lot of fun to watch swim around. Were the daphnia easy to get established? I've been thinking about breeding them for a while. Thanks 💚 I use fairly strong lights, ferts and CO2. Otherwise I'm pretty rough on the Monte Carlo lol. I've pulled chunks out of it for other tanks so many times that it started to uproot. That's why I parted it out and replanted recently.

@volcanixthanksyoufortheviewz 11 ай бұрын

@@freshflowaquatics yep, they were just as easy as the scud, as long as they have detritus and dead leaf matter they grow in numbers rather quickly. They're much harder to catch so I have mine in a glass "fish" bowl with large leaves, no substrate, that way when I want to feed the fish with some, I just snag up a leaf and it always has some on it. After a day or so if the leaf is still in the tank, I take it back out and put it back into the bowl, to repeat the process 🥰 I have copepods in with the daphnia as well, I forgot to mention that. But they're so much easier than triops and fairy shrimp lol I cannot keep them alive x.x

@volcanixthanksyoufortheviewz 11 ай бұрын

This is one of the examples I used to make sure my cultures thrived kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eNlyqc-kptfZj2w.htmlsi=C2x3to1NfCAv58-s

@freshflowaquatics 11 ай бұрын

@@volcanixthanksyoufortheviewz Thanks for sharing, that looks super easy! I ordered some daphnia over the weekend so they should be hear in the next week or so. Excited!!!

@logankue9627 10 ай бұрын

I think I had a couple of stowaways from plants. For sure my betta ate one. I'd like to get a few colonies going so my fish will have some sustenance when I'm away and isn't able to feed them.

@freshflowaquatics 10 ай бұрын

Good luck with that! They're pretty hardy little guys, as long as you kept them fed and the water clean they should take off.

@dylonpress7034 8 ай бұрын

I have a pond full of these little guys we call them fresh water shrimp. I've always wanted to raise them so I can use them as bait.

@freshflowaquatics 8 ай бұрын

I bet they'd make good bait! There's about 10,000 species worldwide, with roughly 80% being saltwater organisms. I quite enjoy watching them move around, they're fun little critters.

@dylonpress7034 8 ай бұрын

@@freshflowaquatics I chopped a hole through the ice today on my pond and caught around a thousand or so. I'm keeping some in a big fish tank I have and some in a container in the fridge so I can fish with them when the ice is safe to walk on

@freshflowaquatics 6 ай бұрын

@@dylonpress7034 That's some dedication! They must be a lot bigger than the ones I got in my tank.

@Spacey7 11 ай бұрын

Hi. Great video, thank you. Question, would they be too big for Guppies?

@freshflowaquatics 11 ай бұрын

Thanks! Full grown scuds would probably be a bit much for a guppy to munch on, but younger ones would be great. My guppies go crazy for fresh hatched brine shrimp

@Spacey7 11 ай бұрын

@@freshflowaquatics ok thank you. I'd love to have some live food living in my tanks, I'll have to research it more. Yes mine have baby brine shrimp & all-sorts of foods too 😊

@freshflowaquatics 11 ай бұрын

@@Spacey7 Scuds are good little cleaners too! They eat detritus and algae. I did read one person say that they will reduce shrimp numbers by eating the eggs right out of females carrying eggs, but I have seen absolutely no evidence of that.

@Spacey7 11 ай бұрын

@@freshflowaquatics that wouldn't be a problem as I only have shrimp in one of my tanks. Too many bloody snails in two of them lol. I probably have some wildlife in the tanks, just not caught sight of any yet. I have put water from a natural spring in my tanks with some debris from the floor of spring stream. Thank you for the info, better than a lot of KZfaqrs 😊

@freshflowaquatics 10 ай бұрын

@@Spacey7 the scuds would likely compete with the snails for algae and detritus. Might be worth it for snail control 🤣Happy to help and thanks for supporting the channel!

@andresp9020 2 ай бұрын

I have been wanting to introduce some into my tank, but I've heard some people say that they will eat live healthy plants? Can you please share your experience with them as far as them eating your plants. Thank you very much in advance!

@freshflowaquatics 2 ай бұрын

Hey, good question! I've read a lot about people saying that scuds ate their plants, especially mosses but never experienced that it my tank. You can see that there's tons of healthy plants in the video. They sure did seem to like hanging out in the moss in my tank, but I never saw any signs of them damaging anything except for maybe the shrimp population. Maybe some people run into issues when they don't have any scud predators in the tanks? If they don't have the pressure of a predator constantly keeping them on the move they are able to over graze? Certainly seems possible to me but not anything I dealt with.

@14h8h8l 6 ай бұрын

How to catch them in the wild?

@freshflowaquatics 6 ай бұрын

I've never done it, but I'd imagine you just grab some water from the side of a pond where leaves have fallen. Be sure to grab some leaves too since they like to hang out in the litter layer.

@14h8h8l 6 ай бұрын

@@freshflowaquatics I accidentally caught them once, but unfortunately released them later. And now I really need them for my native aquarium, and I haven’t been able to catch them for a year now. I tried to catch them with a net, looked under stones and in plants, set traps, etc. but nothing works, I just managed to catch freshwater isopods.

@freshflowaquatics 6 ай бұрын

@@14h8h8l That's still pretty cool, but I'd imagine the isopods are a lot harder for your fish to eat eh? I bet they'd be hard to catch with a net. Maybe just scoop out a bunch of much water from the bottom layer and then sift through it? You'll probably get a bunch of critters but if the scuds are out there, I bet that'd be the easiest way to find them.

@14h8h8l 6 ай бұрын

@@freshflowaquaticsI don't have any fish in the aquarium as it is too small (about 20L) to support fish life without filtration and an aerator, it is possible to have a guppy fish in there, but I don't want yet. I made an aquarium-ecosystem in which there is no oxygen supply, which requires almost no maintenance, I only add water periodically as it evaporates, small crustaceans (several species of ostracods, copepods), freshwater bivalves, isopods and pond snails live there, several types of plants. I want to increase its biodiversity, so I’m waiting for the ice on the lake to melt.

@user-pf1st2fy5n 4 ай бұрын

There are several ways to catch scuds in the wild. But I found tying a small chunk of cucumber to dental floss, throw it in a wild place with plenty of leaf matter, leave twenty minutes or so. Pull it up drop in a container and you got some scuds. Because they are taken from the wild I would quarantine the wild caught, and only keep their offspring.

@user-cd5jg3tw2h Ай бұрын

They make my shrimp population drop and decimate my plants

@freshflowaquatics Ай бұрын

Oh no, sorry to hear that. I did a follow up video reflecting on almost a year or so with scuds. I did not notice any decrease in plant mass, but I did notice that they decreased my shrimp population. There was still shrimp breeding occurring, but it was far and few... A lot harder to keep up with my bloody marry genetics with such low breeding rate.