Daphnia Magna Eggs Live Fish Food for Hatching and Culture Suitable for Feed Betta Fish

Don’t waste your money. I am a biology professor and hoped to hatch these Daphnia for my class. I set up an aquarium for them with air pump and everything. Ideal conditions. Not a single egg hatches from EITHER vial. Complete waste of money. Do yourself a favor and order a bag of life, hatched specimens from another seller.

I read the reviews before I bought this product... even though most are bad, I decided to try it anyway. So far I am having a great hatch rate. I just think other people may not be experienced with hatching daphnia. It is best to used aged water with some tannins. After hatching, I am just feeding spirulina powder and fine yeast. After two weeks of hatching half a capsule, my daphnia are having babies! Great fish food for my Scarlet Badis.

Why did you pick this product vs others?: First off, it is not a capsule as they state on the site; it is more of a vial with a cap. A fair amount of eggs get stuck in it, so basicly you have to dump, then put the capsule in the water to get the rest. Not that that matters, as hatching was a no go. Not one hatched. Complete waste of money. Should have bought live. And to make that worse, you can not even get a refund when it does not work! I will never make this mistake again.

Started my colony in a clear vase (~16oz pasta jar on the left for size comparison) using aged tap water instead of water from my fish tank so I don’t introduce any unnecessary microorganisms into the daphnia colony. I set it up by a window that gets indirect sunlight. I added: 1. Cuttings of houseplants that I know will root in water to act as natural filtration. 2. 1 small ramshorn snail as clean up crew. 3. Bits of torn catappa leaves to promote growth of infusoria which then provides an additional food source for daphnia. 4. Air stone with water pump for aeration. Adjusted the air stone to medium size bubble at a medium to rapid flow. 5. Added about 1/3 of a capsule of the eggs to start a small but steady colony in this small vase to hopefully prevent colony crash. They hatched after several days. Counted about 12-15 of them (there could be more but too tiny to see). Fed them spirulina powder and garbanzo bean powder mixed with water into a soupy consistency. I feed only 1-2 drops of the mixture every other day using an eye dropper. Before feeding, I changed about 1/4-1/3 of the water (will probably change the water less often once the system has matured a bit more). 2 weeks later, they have multiplied quite a bit. Too many to count. Possibly over a hundred or even more. And I still have all the extra eggs I didn’t use in the fridge for backup in case this one crashed in the future. But let’s hope it doesn’t. Overall I’m very happy with the purchase and would recommend it to anyone who is interested to start their own colony. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the experience. They are fun to observe! Best of all they double as pet and as fish food 🤭.

Unfortunately, nothing hatched. Not sure what I could have done wrong so I guess...bad batch? I figured after 2 weeks I would see something if there was anything. If I jumped the gun and something happens Ill update. Update: Guess I couldn't see them but after a couple months I now have millions of them. I guess I didnt know exactly what I was looking for... or they were just too small for at least a month. Would be 5star if both caps were able to produce but I guess I got enough out of the 1.

Add my name to the list of people who had zero luck getting anything except two worms to hatch from these eggs. No luck in a tank that once had a thriving population of daphnia in it (fed them all to my fish and wanted to reestablish a colony with the eggs). Also tried two other setups. Nothing. Monitored water conditions weekly (Master Kit). Tried different temperatures, aeration and no aeration, lighting and no lighting. Basically all I can do is feed the eggs to the fish and go back to buying live daphnia locally.

it’s easy to hatch it’s for kids my 10 year-old son hatched it with a filter and some spring water

no dice. put in a filtered, aerated and cycled aquarium..but none of the two capsules ever hatched. I thought surely I'd done everything right, but I guess more people get bad batches of these than they get viable ones. an unfortunate waste of money.