Moina : a model system

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@Sjuday2527

Moina are generally quite tolerant of poor water quality. They live in water where the amount of dissolved oxygen varies from almost zero to supersaturation. Moina are particularly resistant to changes in the oxygen concentration and often reproduce in large quantities in water bodies strongly polluted with sewage(source :- provided above).

I somehow disagree this point because once the dissolve oxygen is less it will turn red and which can result it in forcing it to sexual breed which can affect the growth rate of the population… so how it can reproduce in large number please try to find out a reliable reference as we have many before starting this big initiative

@Sjuday2527

I will be taking 5 liters of dechlorinated water in the tank and will be putting 10 colourless moinas in it from the present moina culture in the lab. The reason to make the culture in the lab is that firstly i will maintain a culture in the lab itself and then will take some moinas with me to SOMAIYA after getting a good culture of moinas. For feeding the moina i will put 5drops of milk(as milk has lactobacilli and moina feeds on bacteria) with the help of a dropper everyday and will see whether the moinas are increasing in number or not.

For this I guess your experimental setup is very big and if you are putting 5 liters of water and adding 10 moinas don’t you think it is going to difficult for moina to find out food mind you, you are not doing a bottle culture (the available water is huge) SO PLEASE TAKE THAT INTO CONSIDERATION

and for the feed of bacteria 5 drops I guess it is not enough, as we put 1 drop alternate day in the bottle culture of 250ml, so please tell us the reason behind this feed…

But surely a great initiative… hope that you take this point into consideration and future we can lend many moinas from you CUBE chat #COOOL