Enjoy this demonstration of culturing paramecia for feeding as live food to tropical fish fry. Paramecia or paramecium are commonly found in the tiny organisms referred to as infusoria. They are easily cultured at home and make a simple and clean way to always have plenty of live fry food on hand for the smallest of fry. Paramecia are unicellular organisms with a shape resembling the sole of a shoe. It is mostly found in a freshwater environment but also in brackish and salt water.
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7 NOV 2020: I have been actually monitoring the time frames in which the culture sits around for a while now and I've come to the conclusion that after initial creation, I find it best to let it sit for 2 weeks before the culture is outstandingly concentrated. At that point it should be used but I've found that after 4 weeks the culture has slowly begun to die out. In some instances, the culture rebounds and will grow in higher conditions again, but I would recommend merely starting a new one each week no longer than every two weeks to ensure a very good supply of paramecia. This has been my observations.
25 Dec 2021: I have tried doing without the paramecia and used tank water as the starter. I did produce lots of small infusoria but none of the larger easier-to-see paramecia appeared in the culture. I almost missed it because the infusoria was so small, but it did appear. I think this culture medium is the best that I've tried so far. I welcome your comments, they have been very educational and helpful.
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