Re: NANFA-- Daphnia/was "if you build it..."

Travis Haas (travis.c.haas_at_lawrence.edu)
Wed, 09 Apr 2003 16:36:55 -0500

Was this use of light traps mentioned in the AC article? Either way, it
sounds like an excellent technique. I'll have to try it out for myself.

Travis Haas
Appleton, WI

"Hoover, Jan J ERDC-EL-MS" wrote:
>
> Bill F wrote:
> >>>A friend told me that ducks are good for Daphnia. Apparently the
> "fertilizer" they put into the water will give you a bloom of algal
> growth and as long as there is nothing in the pond to eat the daphnia
> they will thrive.<<<
>
> Jan writes:
> Last Saturday our nature center had its annual Nature Day celebration and I
> was working a "Life Under the Microscope" station. Mid-day, I took a group
> of kids out to a small (6 by 15 ft) puddle of water in the woods where I had
> set a light-trap the night before. It contained a sizable mass of Daphnia
> and other water fleas. Volume of the plankton (out of water) was
> approximately that of a a tennis ball. Its not uncommon to collect
> zooplankton in light-traps (sometimes numbering in 100s or 1000s), but I had
> never seen a mass of water fleas like this before. The kids were impressed.
> They looked at the water fleas in the trap, under the scopes, and then fed
> them to the sunfish and darters in the aquarium.
>
> Pond contained a few chironomids, some crawling water beetles (Haliplidae),
> and a few pond snails, but little else. It was on a moderately steep slope,
> was a foot deep and completely shaded. Nutrent source was a thick layer of
> leaf litter.
>
> Details on light-traps can be found in the latest (Winter 2003) issue of
> American Currents.
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