Which LFS still selling live daphnia aka boon??

[tetrakid]

OIC~ Good to hear that.
XD So far I have been concentrating on my Daphnia more than my shrimps and fishes. Actually my shrimps & fishes don't require much of attention, I just feed them daily & weekly or fortnightly WC.
@_@ Still got many daphnia experiments need to be carry out...

Yup, keep up the good work, Bern.

[Bern C]

XD I think I really need to harvest some Pulex this weekend.. It's getting overcrowded.. Can harvest like 200+ Daphnia.. @_@ Should I put them on sales. XD

[fireblade]

BernC good to hear your daphina like the green water..
hope you have luck culturing the green water..
for me I noticed some dead daphina..
they are still in the container that you passed me.. only difference is adding of green water once every 2 days.
noticed that they are less active and there are some dead body..

[Bern C]

XD My green water isn't as green as yours. I diluted your green water with 2 part of water for culturing. I can see the color different on the first week but seem like reached it limitation after that. Yours is like 20-30% much greener. XD

Hmm... is your PH 7-8?? Temperature wise shouldn't be much problem as long as no swing as my tank is exposed to 2-4 hours of evening sunlight. How much green water you feed the Daphnia?? XD I think your green water really concentrated which I actually diluted with some water before feeding.
Try taking a few Daphnia out and feed them like 1 drop of green water daily or 2 day until population increased then feed more. ^_^ Hope this helps.

Try not to cloud the water with green water as I haven't tried weekly feeding yet. For now if your water is clouded, either stop feeding or do 50% WC or add water to dilute it and see how it goes.

There's a few things I usually check for, if there's newborns and if the adult daphnia is carrying white/grey eggs. If majority are producing ephippia means something wrong with the water or they are not reproducing and dying means critical. So far I haven't see them producing ephippia before but only some casualties to due transferring or changing tank.

[DaNny Chong]

I search all ang mo kio lfs, all never sell boon.
bedok res rd blk 631 got sell boon

[Bern C]

Million thanks for your efforts. My apologies, I took this list from another forum and some of the infomation are actually few years back. So those with the <confirmed> are comfired on Q1-2 this year. Those without XD I dunno if they are selling or if the LFS still there or not. Thanks again for your effort ^_^

Update:

West
-Hong Yang Aquarium, 306 Choa Chu Kang Avenue 4 Beside CCK Interchange (boon) <confirmed>
-96 Sungei Tengah Rd (boon)
-Ah Hock Aquarium (boon)
-Polyart, Blk 328 Clementi Avenue 2 #01-194 (bbs)
-Eight Star Aquarium, Blk 217A Jurong East St 21 (boon)
-Blk 537 Bt gombak (boon)

East
-OTF Aquarium, Pasir Ris Farmway (boon) <confirmed>
-Sincere, 35 Pasir Ris Farmway 2 Lot E1- fresh n frozen BBS
-822 Aquarium & Fishing Tackles, Blk 822 Tampines Street 81
-Blk 85 Bedok North Market (Boon)
-Ding Feng Aquarium - Blk 84 Bedok North St 4 #01-07 (boon)
-Kohaku Aquarium - blk 416 Bedok North Avenue 2 (boon) <last info nov2014>
-163 Aquarium & Trading - 631 Bedok Reservior Rd <confirmed on Aug2015>

North
-That Aquarium, Blk 618 Yishun Ring Road Phone: 6758 5488 (boon) *call before going <confirmed>
-Sea View(nan yang) at jalan kayu.(boon) *only week ends <confirmed>
-Kim Hai Orchid farm, 78 Seletar West Farmway 8 (boon)
-Fwu Hae Pet Shop, 151 Serangoon North Avenue 2
-Petmart, 151 Serangoon North Avenue 2 (instant bbs & bbs)
-Natural View Aquarium, Blk 684 Hougang Avenue 8 (boon)

Central

South
-Wu Hu Aquarium, 71 Seng Poh Rd (pre-order) <last info nov 2014>

[tetrakid]

I search all ang mo kio lfs, all never sell boon.
bedok res rd blk 631 got sell boon

It's hard for suppliers to maintain a continual or regular supply of boons because boons cultures crash easily.
Unlike tubifex, it is also rather labour-intensive to breed. But fish of all sizes just love boons.

[fireblade]

I've checked with Ben from Wu Hu.. no more selling boon.

[Bern C]

I've checked with Ben from Wu Hu.. no more selling boon.

Many thanks for your update. ^_^

@_@ seem like more LFS stop selling.

Update:

West
-Hong Yang Aquarium, 306 Choa Chu Kang Avenue 4 Beside CCK Interchange (boon) <confirmed>
-96 Sungei Tengah Rd (boon)
-Ah Hock Aquarium (boon)
-Polyart, Blk 328 Clementi Avenue 2 #01-194 (bbs)
-Eight Star Aquarium, Blk 217A Jurong East St 21 (boon)
-Blk 537 Bt gombak (boon)

East
-OTF Aquarium, Pasir Ris Farmway (boon) <confirmed>
-Sincere, 35 Pasir Ris Farmway 2 Lot E1- fresh n frozen BBS
-822 Aquarium & Fishing Tackles, Blk 822 Tampines Street 81
-Blk 85 Bedok North Market (Boon)
-Ding Feng Aquarium - Blk 84 Bedok North St 4 #01-07 (boon)
-Kohaku Aquarium - blk 416 Bedok North Avenue 2 (boon) <last info nov2014>
-163 Aquarium & Trading - 631 Bedok Reservior Rd <confirmed on Aug2015>

North
-That Aquarium, Blk 618 Yishun Ring Road Phone: 6758 5488 (boon) *call before going <confirmed>
-Sea View(nan yang) at jalan kayu.(boon) *only week ends <confirmed>
-Kim Hai Orchid farm, 78 Seletar West Farmway 8 (boon)
-Fwu Hae Pet Shop, 151 Serangoon North Avenue 2
-Petmart, 151 Serangoon North Avenue 2 (instant bbs & bbs)
-Natural View Aquarium, Blk 684 Hougang Avenue 8 (boon)

Central

South

[DaNny Chong]

No more natural view aquarium

[DaNny Chong]

Kim hai orchid only sell orchid

[Bern C]

No more natural view aquarium

Kim hai orchid only sell orchid

Many thanks for your efforts. ^_^

Update:

West
-Hong Yang Aquarium, 306 Choa Chu Kang Avenue 4 Beside CCK Interchange (boon) <confirmed>
-96 Sungei Tengah Rd (boon)
-Ah Hock Aquarium (boon)
-Polyart, Blk 328 Clementi Avenue 2 #01-194 (bbs)
-Eight Star Aquarium, Blk 217A Jurong East St 21 (boon)
-Blk 537 Bt gombak (boon)

East
-OTF Aquarium, Pasir Ris Farmway (boon) <confirmed>
-Sincere, 35 Pasir Ris Farmway 2 Lot E1- fresh n frozen BBS
-822 Aquarium & Fishing Tackles, Blk 822 Tampines Street 81
-Blk 85 Bedok North Market (Boon)
-Ding Feng Aquarium - Blk 84 Bedok North St 4 #01-07 (boon)
-Kohaku Aquarium - blk 416 Bedok North Avenue 2 (boon) <last info nov2014>
-163 Aquarium & Trading - 631 Bedok Reservior Rd <confirmed on Aug2015>

North
-That Aquarium, Blk 618 Yishun Ring Road Phone: 6758 5488 (boon) *call before going <confirmed>
-Sea View(nan yang) at jalan kayu.(boon) *only week ends <confirmed>
-Fwu Hae Pet Shop, 151 Serangoon North Avenue 2
-Petmart, 151 Serangoon North Avenue 2 (instant bbs & bbs)

Central

South

You mean no more selling at natural view aquarium?? XD I was there last week but didn't ask if they are selling boon. Most of the fish there are Chiclids.

=( Probably the betta farm in Kim Hai orchid nursery is gone..

[Bern C]

Update on my Daphnia finding:

1)XD Recently I started to test for NH3 & NO2 and found that my NH3 is 0-0.25ppm but my Nirite is surprisingly high, 5ppm or more. Both 1 week and 1-2month old culture show the same thing. @_@ No more NO3 test kit so I don't know about NO3 level, but I suspect NO3 should be low and something must have happened to the NO2>>NO3 bacteria.

2)Daphnia population doesn't seem to be affected by the high NO2 level. My 1 week old culture population still growing. But my 1-2months old culture(2g tank) seem to hit its peak. The population seem to grow at a slower rate and probably going to stagnate soon. So far that culture has been very dense. 1 cup of culture will have 50-100 Daphnia in it. I suspect Daphnia has high tolerance of NO2. Too bad my test kit can only test up to 5ppm so can't find out the max tolerance of NO2. I will do another test by maintaining my NO2 near 0ppm to confirm and conclude on this finding. If no change in yield rate @ low Nitrite level, then NO2 isn't the main factor affecting the population.

3)Bladder snails seem to be doing fine in high NO2 level while my all my newly introduced red ramshorn snails died between 1st week-3rd week. But the red ramshorn eggs still hatching and babies still surviving. XD Can't conclude much now.

[Ingen]

After so much work, do you bear to feed them to your fauna?

[tetrakid]

Update on my Daphnia finding:

1)XD Recently I started to test for NH3 & NO2 and found that my NH3 is 0-0.25ppm but my Nirite is surprisingly high, 5ppm or more. Both 1 week and 1-2month old culture show the same thing. @_@ No more NO3 test kit so I don't know about NO3 level, but I suspect NO3 should be low and something must have happened to the NO2>>NO3 bacteria.

2)Daphnia population doesn't seem to be affected by the high NO2 level. My 1 week old culture population still growing. But my 1-2months old culture(2g tank) seem to hit its peak. The population seem to grow at a slower rate and probably going to stagnate soon. So far that culture has been very dense. 1 cup of culture will have 50-100 Daphnia in it. I suspect Daphnia has high tolerance of NO2. Too bad my test kit can only test up to 5ppm so can't find out the max tolerance of NO2. I will do another test by maintaining my NO2 near 0ppm to confirm and conclude on this finding. If no change in yield rate @ low Nitrite level, then NO2 isn't the main factor affecting the population.

3)Bladder snails seem to be doing fine in high NO2 level while my all my newly introduced red ramshorn snails died between 1st week-3rd week. But the red ramshorn eggs still hatching and babies still surviving. XD Can't conclude much now.

Good.

[DaNny Chong]

As in there is no such shop as natural view there unless address is wrong

[Bern C]

After so much work, do you bear to feed them to your fauna?

XD At first don't bear but knowing their lifespan is only around 2months or slightly longer so just treat it as a cycle. =X I did some chanting/prayers before feeding.

Good.

^_^ Thanks shifu

As in there is no such shop as natural view there unless address is wrong

Hm... If you went to Blk 684 Hougang, probably you missed the stall? Did you see another LFS at 684? There's 1 more LFS fish-a-pet @ a corner of the block facing Ave 8 and blk 683. XD When you found this LFS just follow the shops facing 683 and you will find natural view few shops away. @_@ That blocks there are quite big, it took me quite some time to walk around the block to find the 2 LFS. Not sure about their operating timing, but my 1st time there was around 9pm and both was closed. Most of the neighborhood and farms LFS close around 7pm-8pm, except C328 LFS, 11pm or 24/7.

[DaNny Chong]

I only found 1 at blk 684

[DaNny Chong]

Plus i walk around the whole of block 684 only found 1 aquarium shop but only saw 1 around the corner. Please double confirm if i miss it

[Bern C]

Plus i walk around the whole of block 684 only found 1 aquarium shop but only saw 1 around the corner. Please double confirm if i miss it

Yup~ you must have missed it. XD I was there last Thursday evening. Hmm.. probably it was closed when you visit? If you can recall there's some stone table and chairs in between 684 & 683, the LFS is actually quite near those stone table and chairs.