Snails

Love them or hate them, theyre a vital part of the ecosystem of any water system. I personally love a quick, scaleable animal that quickly breeds to take over a niche. Snails are the ideal litmus test for overfeeding. You overfeed, they’re likely to bloom exponentially, telling the feeder “Hey, maybe slow down a bit”. For medaka I can recommend […]

Making an extreme budget filter

Every time I buy a small sponge or corner filter, I feel like I could make this stuff better and cheaper, so I did. This is like one of those online recipes where the author fills the content with so much backstory I get bored after 4 seconds and just want the facts. So here: Ingredients for bulk: First you […]

Culturing Daphnia for Medaka

View this post on Instagram A post shared by hei’wa medaka (@hei_wa_medaka) Culturing daphnia is quite easy. I dabbled with various methods (green water, dry spirulina, dry chlorella, yeast, etc ) but by far the easiest is simply growing them in pure green water. I will also link to another article I call my “Two Bucket system” for creating green […]