What is the best and easy way to grow Infusoria or paramecium

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professorjimjam

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I managed to get the eggs of Tetraodon Schoutedeni and they hatched and they grew a bit but they are very small and they are dying as I do not have microscopic live food for them.

I tried culturing the paramecium but it does not work. I do not know why.


here is a photo of one of the last 10 remained alive. I am trying to keep them alive, but do not have food. I am affraid they might die.

the photos is taken with the micro lens. they are very very very small.


Can anyone of you tell me or direct me toward a link so that I can learn easy way to grow Infusoria or paramecium?
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Google it; literally dozens of answers immediately. There are plenty of ways to do it. The thing that they all have in common is that you must start a few days before you have baby fish starving to death. You should start setting up cultures as soon as eggs appear, and continue with new ones every couple days so that you always have food on hand when it's needed. You now have fry that are starving; if you set up a culture right now, as soon as you read this, those few survivors will likely be dead by the time the culture is producing. Something as simple as throwing a handful of dried leaves into your tank back when the eggs were laid would have produced at least some microscopic food for the fry; but again, timing is essential.

Desperate times call for desperate measures. If I were in your shoes, I would find a nice stagnant natural pond or marsh, scoop up some of that disgusting crap off the bottom, being sure to get plenty of leaves and plant debris, and plop it into your fry tank. That stuff will be full of microscopic life and the fry just might survive if this is done NOW...not tomorrow, not this evening, but NOW.

Before someone lights up their torch and storms my castle...yes, this is terrible for your water quality; yes, the potential for introducing disease or predators is high; yes, it does look like hell; yes, it is indeed a messy, unpleasant operation. I would simply reply that your fish are literally starving, at the point in their lives when nutrition is most important. Massive water changes will be called for with this method, and of course keeping a keen eye on the tank to spot and remove predators.

The good news is that this is only necessary for a fairly short time, until the fry grow a wee bit and become capable of handling larger, more convenient foods like brine shrimp nauplii or even powdered commercial fry food. Good luck; now go find your rubber boots.
 
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What did you do to start the paramecium culture?
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I got an empty jar and then got a dirty filter from a running tank and squeezed and shook until all the debris was in the water. Then I took a little yeast around half tea spoon and mixed it in water tank and added it to the jar , then also took 15 of wheat berries and boiled them for 10 minutes and added them to the jar. I put a paper cover on the jar and then placed in the room temperature and saw nothing happened except that everything in the jar decayed and smelled but I saw no living organism. So for the fear of not polluting the water I didn’t add it to the fry tank.
 
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professorjimjam said:
I got an empty jar and then got a dirty filter from a running tank and squeezed and shook until all the debris was in the water. Then I took a little yeast around half tea spoon and mixed it in water tank and added it to the jar , then also took 15 of wheat berries and boiled them for 10 minutes and added them to the jar. I put a paper cover on the jar and then placed in the room temperature and saw nothing happened except that everything in the jar decayed and smelled but I saw no living organism. So for the fear of not polluting the water I didn’t add it to the fry tank.
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You also have to place in indirect sunlight near a window.
 
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tlindsey said:
You also have to place in indirect sunlight near a window.
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I live in denmark, so at this time of the year, we can hardly see the sun. As most of the time it is dark , cold and cloudy. Will the natural day light from the window be sufficient? Because there is no sun ray coming from the window.
 
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