Scud Culture

badflash · Post by **badflash** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 1:11 pm

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.

zapisto · Post by **zapisto** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 9:08 pm

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.

badflash · Post by **badflash** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 9:45 pm

What other critters are these good to feed with?

pleco_breeder · Post by **pleco_breeder** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 10:36 pm

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

zapisto · Post by **zapisto** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 5:43 am

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.

shrimpthing · Post by **shrimpthing** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 3:50 pm

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.

Terran · Post by **Terran** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 6:16 pm

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....

The Fisherman · Post by **The Fisherman** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 6:36 pm

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?

badflash · Post by **badflash** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 7:02 pm

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.

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