The class of deterministic ’Daphnia’ models treated by Diekmann et al. (J Math Biol 61: 277–318, 2010) has a long history going back to Nisbet and Gurney (Theor Pop Biol 23: 114–135, 1983) and Diekmann et al. (Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde 4: 82–109, 1984). In this note, we formulate the individual based models (IBM) supposedly underlying those deterministic models. The models treat the interacti...