Aquatic Snow Globe.....

[BallAquatics]

This 29 is one of the tanks I got from the old guy scaling down his fish room last fall.  I set it up to get it cleaned up and check for leaks.  Once I had that done, I filled it with rain water and was going to let it age, sort of for temporary storage.  Well, I dropped a HOT Mag on the tank and fired it up, but I had forgotten that it had last been running on one of my green water culture tanks.  Needless to say, it dumped the filter contents of green water into the tank.  I though oh well, I'll add just a few daphnia and when they have the water cleared up, I drop in some Devario acrostomus as they were in need of larger accommodations anyway.

I got involved with the rescue turtles and cleaning & resealing the old tank so when the daphnia had the water cleared up I though I'll give them some food and move the fish in a day or two.  I drained a couple of gallons and replaced it with some green water and when I walked by the tank today it happened to catch my eye.....

Dennis

[ilroost]

Nice!!

[Mugwump]

WOW....that's nice......    

[BallAquatics]

Thanks guys.  I was kind of mesmerized when I started watching it and thought it might make for a cool video.

Dennis

[Mugwump]

Would a black light pick them up???

[PaulineMi]

That is cool. Certain groups of the daphnia capture the attention, a couple even did loop-de-loops. Then there are some tiny ones on the bottom that seem like they're just learning to "take flight".

Fun to watch...thanks for sharing it Dennis.

[BallAquatics]

Thanks Pauline.  Not sure what they'd look like under a black light Jon.....  Being filter feeders, I could soak some yeast in a fluorescent water based paint and then feed it to them.  Maybe red & green for the holidays.  LOL

Dennis

[PaulineMi]

Then you'd have to place a little tree in the tank.