Aquarium on the Window

Beautiful plant pond! Thanks for pictures.

Daphnia: Despite multiple attempts, I have had no luck growing daphnia (assorted wild species of all ages) in aquariums. And setting up tubs outside just encouraged mosquitoes and frogs. I gave up.

Daphnia do fine outside with cool/cold temperatures. This spring, I netted out a lot of daphnia from my pond.

However, for reliable feeding of live food, I've gone with hatching brine shrimp eggs and growing the shrimp out for a few days. (My baby guppies get live brine shrimp twice a day.)

A "How-To" article on hatching/raising brine shrimp is on my web site:

https://dianawalstad.com/aquariums/

Batjok said:

I think that the Daphnia will not live in the house - she needs a lot of water, light, air, and plant food.

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Daphnia when get to cold or to hot outside lay eggs wich cand survive fost or very high temeperatures, if u let pond substrate like it is now over winter in spring when its over 13 degrades celcius daphnia eggs wil hatch .

If you want to keep daphnia indors put them in a aquarium 25 liters with a airline that make very big bubbles ( reson is that fine air bubbles get traped under daphnia shell and can't swin for food and die), you feed with yeast or powder milk, u take small glass put water a little bit of yeast or powder milk give it a good mix and leave it 30min, then pour the mixture in were u keep daphnia until you clowd the water but you still can see through the water, daphnia will clear the water in about 1-2 days depens on how many they are, when water is clear make a other mixture a feed, what remains throw away.

Thank you!