Keeping a Culture Going

Start a backup culture before the first one crashes. Small live-food cultures are most useful when you keep more than one container on slightly different schedules instead of depending on a single culture.

Product Information

16oz Live Moina macrocopa Starter Culture Start your own renewable supply of nutritious live food! Our Moina macrocopa Starter Cultures contain live Moina ready to be used to establish your own thriving culture at home. Moina are tiny freshwater crustaceans closely related to Daphnia and are highly valued as a live food for fish fry, nano fish, small tropical fish, shrimp, and other small aquatic animals.

Because of their small size and active swimming movement, Moina naturally trigger the feeding response of many fish. They're especially useful when raising fry that are too small to readily consume larger live foods. Why Culture Moina?

Unlike packaged foods that have to be continually replaced, a healthy Moina culture can reproduce rapidly and provide a renewable source of live food. Once your culture becomes established, you can harvest a portion for feeding while allowing the remaining population to continue reproducing. Moina are prolific under favorable conditions, making them an excellent choice for breeders and hobbyists who regularly need small live foods.

Great Live Food For • Newly growing fish fry • Guppies and Endlers • Bettas • Killifish • Small tropical fish • Nano fish • Small juvenile fish • Freshwater shrimp and other suitable aquatic livestock • Breeding and grow-out projects What Is Moina macrocopa? Moina macrocopa is a small freshwater zooplankton species sometimes referred to as a type of "water flea." Adults are generally smaller than many commonly cultured Daphnia, making Moina particularly useful when a smaller live prey item is desired. Their constant swimming keeps them moving through the water column, encouraging fish to hunt and forage naturally.

A Live Food You Can Grow Yourself Your purchase is a starter culture, meaning its purpose is to give you a living population from which to establish a larger culture. Moina can be cultured in anything from smaller containers to larger outdoor tubs.