"irreplaceable" perfect description...I have Scuds everywhere now myself, my small fish don't eat the adult so well. Good idea with the screen .. I'm going to make a Screen scud sifter as well.

Scuds were actually my first aquatic pet.

Video on mulm would be great. Enjoyed watching your fish.

After a long hiatus, I started up an aquarium again about 3 months ago and only feed live foods. Black worms daphnia and scuds. The daphnia are killing me. The black worms not as bad. The scuds require zero effort and I actually harvest from there more than I intended to because they are such prolific breeders. I honestly spend more time watching the scuds than the display tank. Absolutely fantastic creatures.

I love those bristle nose plecos!

I do scuds, I found I actually had a extra colony that started in one of my 10g tanks that exploded. Do have to be careful with scuds and substrate tanks. I had added some to a tank to help feed and be clean up crew. As time went I never saw any so figured they were gone. My substrate was gravel. When I went to a bigger tank I used that substrate in new tank for all the bacteria and good stuff. New tank did great for a while until it all of a sudden wound up with ammonia off the charts for weeks (just recently) kept trying to find a dead fish stuck somewhere... turns out was a big colony that was from old tank I didn’t know was there. They hung on, got buried and all died ... they were thriving down in my previous substrate and I didn’t know it, since I never saw them ... my actual culture tank for them is bare bottom so easier to collect. I also have Daphnia in with scuds as well, which is Another really good food for fish- Moina is small Daphnia, then there’s the bigger kind of Daphnia can get.

My fish love white worms. My Blue Betta flares up when he sees them in the container i put down infront of his tank before I use some tweezers to put a worm in.

Hadn't heard of scuds before finding your channel. Never seen any for sale in the LFS (UK) which is a shame because I would like to start culturing them. Maybe you should throw one under the microscope to give us a closer look!

Yes to mulm video:) Scuds - Been growing scuds for a couple of years now - keep them in a few vases/bowls around my house with some substrate at bottom and moss and guppy grass - change out some water when I pull them to feed fish. Got mine from river in Virginia. The adults are about 1/4" which is too large for many of my fish to eat. I feed the smaller ones to most fish. The larger ones I kill with tweezers then feed to 6" cichlid and 12" loach - I kill them before feeding as that tank has canister filter and I really don't want a scud colony in that tank. NOTE: I have found the scuds are amazing at eating green hair algae. I had green hair algae on some plants including mayaca fluitans - put it in a cup with 20-30 scuds and they ate most of the algae in 1/2 a day without eating the plant. I have found that mine will eat what ever is easiest for them - they will eat their vase plants if there is not enough food for them but they won't bother the plants in any of my tanks because if they come out and try to get to a leaf, a fish hunts them. Also have a large snail that was growing green hair algae on it's shell!! Put it in the cup and scuds ate it off shell:) Live foods are awesome.

Can't beat live food. Thanks Fred O

I feed my scud culture hornwort I grow in my fish aquariums. Every few weeks I thin out the hornwort in my aquariums to feed to my scud cultures. Scuds will strip hornwort clean over time. A stink bug ended up stuck under the lid of one of my scud tanks. I left it to die. My scuds picked it clean in a few days. I'll toss in the occasional ones I come across from now one.

Hi Eric... I think I'm going to look into this. I like raising foods for my fish. Never tried scuds yet.. You angels are amazing!!

Love the vid fishman. I tried scuds they did ok. What ive had good luck with are daphnia. Ive had cultures crash and they come back on their own.

Great information brother 👍👍👍

the best live food is sushi ' oops, but that is dead" ...hahahaha nice share brotha, i think i am going to try infusia and other water culture when it gets a bit warmer...

I would be interested in a series on harvesting wild food. I have a few water run offs and bodies of water in Rockland I was thinking of trying to get daphnia and other things from.

Never scudded, front show glass is the only glass I clean, sides/rear can be growing wild.

Really interesting!

My scuds love to munch on green hair algae.

Totally awesome fish man we have not really done life food hardly ever we really focus on frozen Brian shrimp and blood worms and all the fish turtles and frogs we’ve ever had seem to love it tremendously plus honestly it’s just easier to manage and when you buy it in big huge amounts it’s quite inexpensive luckily we have a back up refrigerator that we could store these kind of things in it doesn’t take up a lot of room but harvesting your own is probably incredibly cost effective it’s just not something we’ve ever tried maybe someday but awesome video dude