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Bring home a healthy, actively maintained culture of live freshwater infusoria for your aquarium, breeding projects, fry, or live-food setup.
Infusoria are microscopic freshwater organisms that make an excellent natural first-food option for newly hatched and appropriately sized fish fry. They can also be maintained as an ongoing culture, providing a renewable source of tiny live food for aquarium breeding projects.
🦠 Choose Your Quantity
Select your preferred quantity from the variation menu:
2 oz Live Infusoria Culture — $12.99
4 oz Live Infusoria Culture — $17.99
6 oz Live Infusoria Culture — $21.99
Shipping options are shown at checkout based on the selected quantity.
🦠 2 oz Starter Culture
A great entry-level option for hobbyists looking to start or supplement an infusoria culture.
Ideal for small breeding projects, individual aquariums, and hobbyists who need a ready-to-use source of live microscopic food.
🦠 4 oz Culture
A larger culture for hobbyists raising multiple batches of fry or wanting additional culture volume for ongoing use.
A great choice for established breeding projects, multiple aquariums, and hobbyists maintaining a regular supply of live microscopic food.
🏆 6 oz Best Value
Our largest standard culture and best value per ounce. Great for dedicated breeders, fish rooms, and hobbyists maintaining multiple fry tanks or ongoing live-food cultures.
Why Live Infusoria?
Infusoria are microscopic freshwater organisms that can provide an important natural live-food source for newly hatched and very small fish fry.
Their extremely small size makes them particularly useful during the early feeding stage when many fry are too small to consume larger live foods.
Once established and maintained under suitable conditions, an infusoria culture can continue producing microscopic live food for ongoing aquarium use.
Infusoria are popular with:
Aquarium fish keepers
Fish breeders
Betta breeders
Community aquarium hobbyists
Fish rooms
Fry-raising projects
Hobbyists raising newly hatched fish
Live-food culture enthusiasts
🦠 Healthy, Actively Maintained Cultures
Our infusoria are maintained as dedicated live freshwater cultures and are shipped as a living culture.
Because infusoria are microscopic, the culture may appear different depending on lighting, water conditions, and the stage of the culture when it arrives. Natural variation in appearance and density is normal.
The culture is intended to be maintained and propagated by the customer after arrival.
📦 Packaging & Shipping
Live infusoria orders are carefully packaged using appropriate sealed containers to help protect the culture during transit.
Shipping options are displayed at checkout based on the selected quantity and shipping method.
Please note: USPS delivery times are estimates and are not guaranteed. Transit time can vary depending on destination, weather, weekends, holidays, and USPS operating conditions.
For extreme temperatures, customers are strongly encouraged to take local weather conditions into consideration when ordering live cultures.
🛡 Live Arrival Guarantee (LAG)Reporting Requirements:
Any issues must be reported within 1 hour of the delivery scan and must include two photos showing the product unopened and fully sealed.
Opening the product immediately voids the LAG.
Temperature Requirements:
Delivery-day temperatures must fall between 50°F and 80°F for LAG eligibility.
If temperatures are below 50°F or above 80°F, buyers are strongly encouraged to consider an available faster shipping option to help reduce transit time and protect the live culture.
Shipping Restrictions:
No shipping to PO Boxes.
Orders placed with a PO Box address will be canceled.
Shipping Schedule:
All live shipments are sent out only on Mondays and Tuesdays to minimize weekend delays and ensure the highest possible survival rate.
Orders placed before 3:00 PM Pacific on Monday or Tuesday will be fulfilled and shipped the same day.
Orders placed after 3:00 PM Pacific on Tuesday through Sunday will ship the following Monday.
Orders placed after 3:00 PM Pacific on Monday or Tuesday will ship the following shipping day.