blue_betta
Fish Herder
my vinigar eel culture is thriving and looking good. then i realised..... im not sure how to harvest them. do i scoop some out and just dilute the water majorly or do i use a net to strain them out?
Harvesting Vinigar Eels
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devon_charm
Fish Herder
Ok two ways
Method 1:
Pour the medium syphoned off your culture through coffee filter paper. Keep the vinegar, return this to your culture. Rinse the eels trapped in your filter by running some fresh water through this. Finally invert into a glass of clean water. Leave them in the water to purge themselves before feeding.
Method 2:
Syphon off some of your culture from near the top into a long necked bottle [ie a vine bottle]. Fill the bottle until the vinegar just starts to enter the neck of the bottle. Then take a small amount of filter wool to form a plug. Push this down until it sits on the vinegar, leaving most off the neck empty. Fill it up with fresh water. The eels will crawl through the filter floss into the fresh water. They can then be harvested with an eye-dropper or turkeybaster,and fed to your fry.
Hope that helps you out
Method 1:
Pour the medium syphoned off your culture through coffee filter paper. Keep the vinegar, return this to your culture. Rinse the eels trapped in your filter by running some fresh water through this. Finally invert into a glass of clean water. Leave them in the water to purge themselves before feeding.
Method 2:
Syphon off some of your culture from near the top into a long necked bottle [ie a vine bottle]. Fill the bottle until the vinegar just starts to enter the neck of the bottle. Then take a small amount of filter wool to form a plug. Push this down until it sits on the vinegar, leaving most off the neck empty. Fill it up with fresh water. The eels will crawl through the filter floss into the fresh water. They can then be harvested with an eye-dropper or turkeybaster,and fed to your fry.
Hope that helps you out
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blue_betta
Fish Herder
Ok two ways
Method 1:
Pour the medium syphoned off your culture through coffee filter paper. Keep the vinegar, return this to your culture. Rinse the eels trapped in your filter by running some fresh water through this. Finally invert into a glass of clean water. Leave them in the water to purge themselves before feeding.
Method 2:
Syphon off some of your culture from near the top into a long necked bottle [ie a vine bottle]. Fill the bottle until the vinegar just starts to enter the neck of the bottle. Then take a small amount of filter wool to form a plug. Push this down until it sits on the vinegar, leaving most off the neck empty. Fill it up with fresh water. The eels will crawl through the filter floss into the fresh water. They can then be harvested with an eye-dropper or turkeybaster,and fed to your fry.
Hope that helps you out
awsome, thank you.
method two sounds easier. does the vinigar not mix witht the water atall or does the filter wool keep them seprate?
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