How to culture Freshwater Amphipods/Scuds

Called amphipods, scuds, gammarus, or Hyalella azteca, these prolific, hardy crustaceans make excellent live fish food.
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Amphipods can be co-cultured with daphnia, or cultured on their own. Amphipods make a great live food for fish as well as aquatic amphibians. The newly born amphipods are tiny, so small fish and and growing fry can eat them, and the adults are large enough to make a good live food for medium-sized and even some larger fish,
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