Micro Worms

[pippoodle]

I keep seeing these cultures for sale and they are about £3 , i'm just wondering are they any good before i spend money on one of the tiny cultures and how easy is it to grow the worms ?
I see it says cultivate in oats or ready brek

Thanks sarah x

 

[Netty]

Yes they are pretty good. I used them last year for my fry. I've done it in oats and also bread. With the oats you need to add some yeast powder. It does pong abit but if you keep refeshing it then it should last you quite a while. Just make a new batch and add a spoonful of your old to it and within no time you'll have millions of them again.

 

[pippoodle]

Yes they are pretty good. I used them last year for my fry. I've done it in oats and also bread. With the oats you need to add some yeast powder. It does pong abit but if you keep refeshing it then it should last you quite a while. Just make a new batch and add a spoonful of your old to it and within no time you'll have millions of them again.

Do you think they are worth the money then ?

 

[Netty]

Definately.......you never get used to the smell but the fry love them lol and it should last you ages if you keep refreshing them every week or two. Very easy to feed especially once they cover the lid. Just use a small paint brush or lip brush (clean), wipe some off the top and swish in the water.

 

[pippoodle]

Definately.......you never get used to the smell but the fry love them lol and it should last you ages if you keep refreshing them every week or two. Very easy to feed especially once they cover the lid. Just use a small paint brush or lip brush (clean), wipe some off the top and swish in the water.

definately going to get some then , just looking for cheaper than £3 lol i know i'm a cheap skate
thanks for all the advice hun and the link you pm'd me the other day

Sarah x

 

[Netty]

No probs I'm not stalking you though.....honest

Have you tried vinegar eel....that is pretty good too.

 

[pippoodle]

whats vinegar eels lol ---- off to google lol

 

[Netty]

They are smaller than MW and live longer in the tank. MW tend to drop quite quickly to the bottom whereas these will swim about higher up for longer. I tend to only use for the first week and then move onto bigger food but it's always there as back up if the brineshrimp fails. I had a culture about 8 months ago and it's still going strong.

 

[england]

Yes i use micro-worms and its so easy, all i do is get a old chinese tankaway tub mix a bowl of porridge cheap one from tesco,don't use ready break as it contains salt.......microwave porridge that has been mixed with water for 1.5mins.........leave to cool, then mix in a sprinkling of yeast making sure its of a not runny/not thick mixture and then add the culture,place in a dark place for about two days.....I find mine crawl up onto the lid where i run my finger across and dip in tank....replenish pot with new porridge about every two weeks, so best to get two or three on the go and rotate

 

[rocknurworld2006]

if after a culture pippoodle if ur happey enough just to pay postage, i can send u free culture of either microwrms or banna worms.
pm if interested pippoddle

 

[pippoodle]

thanks for the offer rock have pm'd you
Sarah x

 

[OldMan47]

The banana worms are only half the size of micro worms so they make a better first food for very small fry. The vinegar eels take almost no care but are harder to harvest and use. The most prolific worms that I have are Walter worms. They are as small as banana worms but reproduce faster. The best way I have found to raise them is to use cooked oatmeal mixed with about half as much of the instant baby cereal (the stuff you buy as a powder) The baby cereal will gut load the worms for better nutrition. Mix thoroughly and add just enough water to make the mixture easy to work. I put the mixture into a plastic container and start it with a sample from an older culture. In about a week, there will be worms crawling up the side of the container. then as Nelly said, a wipe of the finger and you have a feeding for the fry.

Microworms

Lid for microworms. The cutout covered with cloth lets the worms breathe without allowing the culture to be contaminated by fruit flies. Fruit flies love the culture medium.

Walter worms. Not as brightly lit in the picture as the microworm culture but really about the same color in real life.

The glistening surface of the worm cultures is really just a solid mass of the worms. It looks like it is crawling and glistening when viewed under bright light. It is harder to harvest that surface because the worms are crawling right on top of the cereal and you don't want to get the cereal into your fry tank. That is why you take the worms that are crawling up the sides.
Start a new culture every 2 weeks or so and throw away the culture that is a month old as it will start to smell pretty bad after about a month. That way you always have a fresh culture and a very productive culture that is a bit more mature.

 

[pippoodle]

thanks for that oldman