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i've had mixed luck with these guys this summer.i seeded a 600 gallon stock tank and got loads of them for a while and as it got hot they have slowed way down.my 300 gallon tub didnt do well at all had it out in full sun and it produced for a little while.i did something though that turned out to be kind of interesting though.i started a culture of infusoria months ago in a quart jar(no air stone) with a sprig of naja grass and a couple of rabbit pellets and some tank water.it had cleared up one day a few months ago and i squirted 5 or 6 adult daphnia in there and sat it back up in the window(east window of my house only gets sun until maybe noon) i had been seeing 2 or 3 in there all this time.last week there was only maybe an inch and a half of water in the jar.i picked it up and looked and saw that the daphnia were still in there so i filled it up with tank water.the jar is now full of baby daphnia and i have been feeding them green water out of a 29 gallon tank i have been keeping going on the back porch with dried chicken manure.the point of all this is that i had read before that people cultured them in gallon jars and ever being the skeptic that i am,i really didnt believe you could produce enough to really do anything in a gallon jug.i have decided to set up 2 or 3 gallon jugs with tank water and a few rabbit pellets in the bottom and seed them with a few daphnia and see what happens.i have a bunch of live food cultures going grindal worms,white worms,micro worms,vinegar eels and a half ***ed attempt at culturing earthworms and the daphnia.don't even have that many fish right now but i wanted to work the bugs out of keeping the live food as i hope to get a fishroom going again soon.