I recently read an article in Amazonas about how to simply keep a black worm culture using a breeder box. This is very interesting to me because I'd like to have another simple way to feed my fish live food- I currently use flightless fruit flies for one of my tanks, and baby brine shrimp for all, but I stopped keeping the fruit flies myself (I had great success but my wife had a fit when she found the crawling all over the wall and ceiling above the tank- I had WAY too many ) and I don't have enough fish to constantly have live baby brine shrimp, so I feed them when they hatch and freeze the rest in little tubes for later feeding. Good, but not live...
So, the article in this month's Amazonas magazine by Mandy Goan (the article is behind a pay wall, but worth a read if you're interested) shows how to simply keep black worms in a breeder box hung on the side of your tank.
Apparently black worms are very difficult to maintain (or were) and are expensive, but she shows a way that looks pretty easy.
Anyone have experience with black worms? Are they worth the effort?
I've tried daphnia twice but it died on me (I know it's supposed to be super easy). I've tried Grindal worms and they died, and I've tried scuds and they ultimately died too. I know there's one common element in all that- ME, but I'm hoping to find something I can keep alive without a bunch of extra stuff...
So, the article in this month's Amazonas magazine by Mandy Goan (the article is behind a pay wall, but worth a read if you're interested) shows how to simply keep black worms in a breeder box hung on the side of your tank.
Apparently black worms are very difficult to maintain (or were) and are expensive, but she shows a way that looks pretty easy.
Anyone have experience with black worms? Are they worth the effort?
I've tried daphnia twice but it died on me (I know it's supposed to be super easy). I've tried Grindal worms and they died, and I've tried scuds and they ultimately died too. I know there's one common element in all that- ME, but I'm hoping to find something I can keep alive without a bunch of extra stuff...