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I recently caught about a dozen scuds (Gammarus) in a local creek. I set up a 5 gallon tank with a sponge filter, a bunch of pre-soaked oak leaves and a few pulled-apart plastic scrubbies to provide extra surface area.

About twice a week I throw in a few rabbit pellets and add water as needed. I have a scud population explosion after only a month. These guys seem to be super easy to breed and appear to be a good live food source for puffers.

hi,
not only for puffer.
I raise mine in a 3.5 g no filtration.
i make 25% water change with aquarium water
i add java moss in once a week.
population explode.

What other critters are these good to feed with?

I've been feeding them to my apistos, barbs, and danios for a couple months. The barbs and danios don't do much with the adults other than chase them around nipping at them, but have no problems at all with the younger, half-grown, ones. I even have reason to believe that my Hypancistrus, those in the apisto tanks, have been eating those that try to seek refuge in their caves.

Larry Vires

badflash wrote:What other critters are these good to feed with?

My apisto love them, all my killis jump on them, my dario hunt them ,
all small predator will love them.

Everyone loves them. Only problem is that they are very fast and many survive and never get eaten...and establish themselves in tanks with predators. But that may not be a bad thing in everyones eyes. I would avoid them in a breeding tank.

Ive always wanted to capture some scuds...but the creek near my house doesnt seem to sport them in any great abundance....

I should maybe look to find a way to capture some before it gets too cold around here....

badflash wrote: These guys seem to be super easy to breed and appear to be a good live food source for puffers.

I'm definitely interested in learning to culture them.

I've got a bunch of these bad-boys in my SW tanks, though they are not easy to capture, since they are in the LR.

How did you go about capturing them? I live near a creek, but have never seen any. Maybe I would be better off pulling a few from my SW tanks.

Badflash, do you do water changes on your setup, or just top off evaporation?

I just went to the local creek and found an area with a little back water and real low flow. Leaves were trapped there. I scooped up a bunch of the leaves and there they were.

Leaves & rabbit pellets seem to be fine for them.

When I do my weekly water changes I drain some of my cleanest tanks into the scud tank.