I know this video is already 3 years old, but just had to comment anyway. Nothing seems to dampen your spirit Mark. Car's all frosted over... Look at all the amazing patterns. You obviously have a positive perspective on life 😊

I'm really enjoying watching your vids. I'm glad I subbed.

Wow! That was fascinating. I'm getting some daphnia for my angels. Love your appreciation for car ice too. Seems a shame to defrost it to go to work. 😀

What a nice little relaxation bowl as well. They're just fun to watch!

cheers Mark, love the new guy

Hi Mark. Nice work! I would like see more about daphia & shrimps. Thank you...

The moss tank is looking good. Hope this experiment is going to be a success

The African shrimp is brilliant. I just bought 4 bamboo shrimps on the way home from the hospital today Mark how funny is that and they were straight into the shrimps hide. The moss is brilliant Mark 😀👍🏻⭐️⭐️

I get the best ideas from your videos

Your videos are great! I just started a culture in a plastic tub in my backyard

Best fish education channel 😀

That vampire shrimp is beautiful! I keep bamboo shrimp and I love them.💚🐠💚

Very cool!

That’s gorgeous ice. being from Southern California I don’t get to witness this to this extent. ❤️it

Whow! Love your video!

Hi Mark! Love the African Fan Shrimp!! I have 2 bamboo shrimp and love watching them. I like the names Crusty, Whiskers or Charlie :)

If I press that, I nock everything off the workbench... haha Amazing videos, keep them coming!

Filter feeders are so interesting!

The white cloud minnow tank looks awesome!

Hey Mark I've always enjoyed your videos. I hope you're doing well and you had an amazing Christmas. Hopefully I can be successful with the moina/daphnia eventually

Feed them spirulina so they are good and healthy and the spirulina will then be fed to your fishes through these guys

These daphnia look ideal for my apistos🙂👍🏻

Nature is beautiful

How did I miss this video, that shrimp is adorable

The elongated larva you found is a corethra larva. A mosquitto larva of the not stinging kind. They are found in the Winter and make excellent food for fish. The Malaria mosguitto larva is quite alike. But greener and are found during summer.

Loved this and would love to know how you did that switch

Can you give me more info on the tank setup with the minnows? Do you have a video covering the details?

I know you’re calling it a him, but my husband said “Fifi the fan dancer”. Lol!

nice video thanks for sharing

Hi mark nice video Intersting,is there any moss I can collect to grow in my tank I live in Manchester?

Mark did you build that power-kill timer? I'd like to have one of those.

I used to have a cameroon, awesome shrimp

Ok so this stuck to my mind, im thinking of getting a 50-60 liter tank to have a daphnia culture. (ive decided to get some killi fish in the near future, adn also my guppies would probably love these) Do you think its easy to have and keep it going or do i have to restart the culture and so on? The kind i found and easy to get is called daphnia magna, anyway ill read up more of these but maybe you have some answers, or maybe if u want make an update of the litle tank you have either way, you are awesome, getting alot of good tips from you! :)

somehow it reminds me of one of those snow globes. Can't you get em to wear santa clause hats lol

I love these shrimps

Maybe give the big guy a stone roof on three little rocks to hide under? Love your enthusiasm and information. Subbed.

do you need heater for Diaphnia in winter season?? thanks

Of all the videos, this is the only one where you can really see them, and understand the scale.

Love what you got going on there. I would like to know where does one get the volcanic gravel ? Thank you for your time 👍...

Is it very difficult to keep the daphnia culture going in the glass bowl? Is there an unpleasant odor from the daphnia bowl? I ask because I have bowl about the same size with the same plants and it would be brilliant if I could keep daphnia in it.

What is the name of your plant? It’s beautiful!

Love your videos very interesting call him or her lucky

How do you keep that little bowl clean and prevent overpopulation crash of the daphnia?

leave the shells in after he sheds them.They need to eat the shells for the nutrition in them just like the lobsters ,crayfish and shrimp.

hi mark hope this finds you well made a discovery there one a day now😊😊pumpkin left from halloween fed some to micro worms turns them orange and you can see the fry are eating them i use dry potato for food found it the best lasts forever just top it up dry after the first cook pumpkin sits on it lovely done it raw might work quicker boiled for a couple minutes it works another wee tip dont like touching the worms so i use the filtertips from diy cigs to move them about now thats a tip good luck jj

Congrats on 2016 subs!!

Hi Mark, I love the button to turn off the pump for 5 minutes, hate to see my Grindal worms disappearing up the filter inlet when I feed. Did you make it yourself or did you buy it?

Are you making a acrylic tank?? I have never seen nor knew you could get shrimp that size as a pet! Ha,ha call him Tiny Tim! You have now got me wanting some mountain Minnows ;). Keep it up it's great to watch, I never know what you will do next Love it!

Any suggestions how to create circulation on a low tech planted tank? Excellent work on the vid!!!!

How do daphnia get into standing bodies of water (e.g watering cans that you've left out etc) if no water from a daphnia infested water got transferred into it?

Hey Mark do you remember sea monkeys? Excellent video brother 👍

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What do you feed the daphnia? When you made the living wall did you use coconut husk fiber mat to attach the plants and mosses to it? Can coconut husk mats be used in this way to make a living wall?

Love you videos, What is that moss you got growing in your Minnow tank?

What did they turn into?

I’ve commented this on another vid.. but have you seen biopod? Would love to see a diy version

I think you should call him Larry! I know hes not a lobster but i think thats a pretty funny name lol!

Hi mark have you got any ideas for making an dry LED light for small tank projects al

How did you create the daphnia habitat in the glass bowl? I would love something like this for my classroom!

Bit late but Jaba for all those Star Wars enthusiasts! 🤣

Nice video. Can u tell me where I can find this Timer Box that u are using for your pump?!? I also need some of those :D

Nice pickup I have a few bamboo shrimp that looks similar to this one what kind of substrate is he on

I got millions of these breeding in about 500ml of water in a pot of salvinia ive been growing, they been feeding off a old piece of wood i put in the pot. I fed some to my tetras this morning and they love them, using a torch to lure them into a group then a pippet to suck them out. Now i've seen this I think I may get a small bowl for them.

where did you get that timer. I use a 24 hour timer, set it for almost 24 hours on. then turn it all the way around when I want the filter to shut off for the next few minutes.

Your unknown larva is a glassworm, the larva of a midge fly

That affect on the back of a fish tank would look brill Man in black or white ! Hows it done please would like to try in black on my 4ft tank upgrade i'm building...maybe a vid for you in the future sir, I like the nut shell with the plant in, Nice way i can put plants in my tank, See i have bare bottom but they hang, and the trees in the jar of another vid of yours, but still can keep bare bottom.

Are they glass worms ?

Hes a handsome one Mark, who doesn’t love a crustation. They have such interesting behaviour. Is he definitely a male? Call him a proper name. What about Ted?

Will the bamboo shrimps need that coral Mark 👍🏻⭐️⭐️

How is your daphnia tank set up? What kind of plants are in there?

Can you, hypothetically, keep daphnia as pets? I have a 1.5 gallon and I kinda want to keep something small like an aquatic freshwater insect or crustacean.

I love ice pattions

*presses button on the box* *BOOM*

Hey Mark, I've been trying to decide what kind of live food I should breed for my boraras brigittae. Do you think baby daphnia's filled with spirulina would work? Love your videos!

the larva look like glassworm to me, i feed my outdoor daphnia farm with handful of hay and small amount of horse poop think they would eat spirulina powder well mixed but the infusoria from the hay an poop seems to work fine

I've not had good luck with daphnia. It was a bare tank with an airstone, fed with yeast. Did I miss something important? :/ How do you know when you've put enough food in?

morning Mark,,,

I never had much luck with keeping daphnia cultures alive, but I used to have a self-sustaining brine shrimp tank outside on the balcony - I would let it evaporate over winter and they came back in the spring when I refilled the salt-crusted tank with water. Had to take it down when the cats decided it was nice to fish around in there...

I think a small net would work better :)

Do you have an airline going into the Daphnia jar? If not, do they do ok without it? I am having a go at something similar so I have plants and daphnia in a bowl. The bowl has cycled so I am hoping I can have a good looking source of live food! I currently have an air line going into it but the noise is driving me mad!

yes to daphnia

So for the daphnia you just sprinkle a little bit of yeast on top instead of making you yeast soup

Mark hikari makes frozen daphnia. Much easiler just thaw and feed my long finned white mountain minnows.

How do you deal with the water since the daphnia are so small

I thought it was a lobster it’s huge

Hi mr M where can i find this daphnia SOUTH AFRICA

Oh oh.... tell me about those floating walnuts please? Did you make them??? how do you make them???

Is that shrimp edible?

How do you do waterchanges without loosing the daphnia?

Do I need a starter culture if so where can I purchase them at

Marc are you gonna give this African big shrimp a partner and try to breed them?

I know daphnia are sensitive, but is it possible that the ones that hide in the plants, breed and become self sustaining for the fish and themselves?

Ha haha haha ha! From central Canada.

Where did you buy the eggs from??

Miss your updates Mark. Hope you’re doing okay?

what the name of the plants

You should name him Bubba Gump!

Alfred Newman. He looks deliciou....I mean cute. He's cute. I love water bugs. I just got some pea puffers today ( finally...been wanting them forever) and a few more shrimp. I'm very interested in cultivating daphnia. Where did you get your Daphnia Mark? I have a small pond in the back yard and I'd bet I have some in it. Maybe I'll go daphnia hunting.

The long ones I hope aren't dragonfly larva. They like to eat the lil animals

How in the hell this tank is crystal clear?! When I add spirulana to tank with injector it is being cloudy and yellowish other day.