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Hi, I've started cultivating my own live food. I started off with a large clean bucket that I filled with tank water after a water change, then left it for a week so that it went green. I added a packet of live daphnia from the LFS and have left them for a week or so to multiply. I'm now ready to start harvesting the little monsters and have found to my delight an abundance of bloodworm and some funny looking T-shaped monsters have also taken up residence. As you can imagine, the water is pretty yucky, green with loads of algae growing in it.

My question is, how safe are these monsters? Can I fish them out with a bit of algae and dump them straight in the tank or is there a way of cleaning them up before I dump them in?
 
T-shaped??

I suggest you serach for info on the T-shaped monsters to be sure that isn't a problem. Some of the sites that sell live food cultures have info on contaminates, i don't have any bookmarked sorry.
 
I'm assuming you left it outside if you have bloodworms??? Obviously the daphnia and bloodworms shouldn't be a problem. The 't-shaped monsters' are also probably just offspring of some other bug. I wouldn't know where to begin but I would do a little more research before I just dumped it in too. Maybe if you could post a picture other people on the board may be able to ID it for you.

The bloodworms you can just fish out and rinse them first so you wouldn't have to worry about the 't-monsters'. I don't know how you'd rinse out the algae though.
 
I'm not worried about what the little larvae are, they are fruit fly larvae so the more the fish eat the better! I'm more concerned about the green water that gets scooped up with the live food, how do you get the live food without scooping out a load of crap along with them?
 
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