I found some ephippia in my bucket!
Actually I found loads of it. I'm finding tons of daphnia pulex (I believe..), but as it turns out, I'm awful at caring for it.
I'm guessing I'm over feeding it because my water is very green and I can't see the bottom. I decided to look in another bucket, and SUPRIZE! ephippia. Only a few daphnia left with tons of cyclops.
YAY! I should start an ephippia farm, since I'm apparently not a very good daphnia mom. Just call me the daphnia destroyer.
Oh!, but the cyclops love me. I have to harvest them often. Works out though, since my hatchlings love them.
I put the ephippia in a bucket just to be sure of what I was seeing, and poof a couple days later....
daphnia.
Yay again, I say with a gleeful giggle.
So there's my story.
Thank you all for your help. I have enjoyed this thread a lot.