MAGS-Pets Blog

     I received the daphnia magna culture I ordered last Saturday from a great and reliable source and had a 10 gallon tank setup to try my luck in culturing these interesting critters. The culture tank has an air hose with low aeration and I even placed an aquarium thermometer to keep an eye on the water temperature of the tank. Aged pond water from my outdoor koi pond is being used as the daphnia magna culture water. I’m feeding them yeast dissolved in aged water and so far they are doing fine. It is their 4th day today and I can already observe that their numbers are multiplying, an opposite of what I got when I was trying to culture Daphnia Moina, a much smaller version of Daphnia Magna.      A problem that I currently have with my setup is that the temperature of the tank water is high compared to the recommended 65 – 70 °F. Hoping that I could somehow find a way around this. Suggestions will be highly appreciated. You can ...

     About a year ago, I got my hands upon a couple of Pearlscale goldfish and it was very fun to have those cute, puffed-up fishes swimming around in the aquarium. I recently got my hands on a batch of the same type of goldfish for retailing on my online store, MAGS-Pets and imagine the fun of watching all of them together. These will still change their color, especially those plain bronze colored ones. They are placed in the small tank temporarily only for picture-taking and was returned to their much bigger sized enclosure afterwards. If they don’t all get sold, I hopefully will be posting an update on them, especially when they have developed their coloration.      This blog has been very quiet for so long and I really do wish that I can try to liven it up a bit by frequently adding up new posts. Keep an eye for future posts and please don’t hesitate to leave comments. It would really help to encourage me to write more blog posts. Till next t...

  Live aquatic plant Stargrass is actually Dwarf Sagittaria. Just confirmed the suspicion of the error in naming with fellow planted tank hobbyists. Sorry for the error & we will be correcting our plant description soon.