Whiteworms raising for tropical fish food
How to raise whiteworms to feed to tropical fish. The method gives a huge supply on a continuing basis. Gut loaded for maximum nutrition for your fish
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Categories: freshwater tropical fish Tags: fish food, live fish food, live food, raising fish food, tropical fish, whiteworms
@rotcafarg That’s …
@rotcafarg That’s changed now. They’re going strong!
Do you sell mature …
Do you sell mature cultures? If so, please e-mail me price and postage. Thanks.
medium – spaghnum …
medium – spaghnum peat moss with some regular potting soil. About 1″ thick. Add a little lime to help the pH stay neutral. Temperature – kept in a wine cooler. Hig 50s
Hi djrramsey,
few …
Hi djrramsey,
few questions:
1. What do you use for the medium? soil or peat moss? and how thick is the medium?
2. What temperature do you keep them in?
Thanks
thank you for …
thank you for sharing this with us
how do i start the …
how do i start the culture..should i buy some whiteworms or can i start with this ”recepies”
algae wafers are …
algae wafers are available at any pet store. Even Walmart has them. Hikari is a good brand, so is Aqaurian. Petsmarts have their own brand of them.
where can i buy a …
where can i buy a algae wafers?
Mine are growing …
Mine are growing well, but wow, I looked at your video again and although my box is bigger than yours I don’t have anything like that quantity of worms. I’m not putting that much food in though – I guess I should put in more…
I have more trouble …
I have more trouble with mites with the grindal worms. Don’t know why. They are tough to get rid of. The mites should congregate mostly on some dry dog or cat food pellets in the culture. Then pick out the pellets covered in mites and throw out. When your white worm culture gets going pretty good, harvest into a container of water. Stir it, let it settle, pour off the water. Do that several times and most of the mites will be gone from the worms. Use that to start a new clean culture. David
So I got me some …
So I got me some white worms from a guy on Aquabid! They seem healthy but I don’t yet have the quantities your video shows. I’m going to let them settle in for a couple of weeks – I put them in a larger container than they came in with some more potting soil.
I think they have mites though – there’s lots of tiny little dots. Do you have trouble with them?
Thanks for the info …
Thanks for the info – white worms it is.
It will take a lot …
It will take a lot of grindals to fill up the fish you have listed. As adults they would much prefer the whiteworms. And since whiteworms start out smaller and grow up, the smaller ones will feed the baby platies and guppies. But the whiteworms need to be kept much cooler than the grindals.
100 tanks! Wow!!
…
100 tanks! Wow!!
I’m wondering whether to get whiteworms or grindals. I have community fish: cories, platys, guppies, a dwarf gourami, nothing very big. I hear that white worms are fattier than grindal worms, so maybe I should go with the latter.
I keep over 100 …
I keep over 100 tanks. They are mostly 10 gallons, but range from 2 1/2 to 40 gallon. Whiteworms are much larger than girindals. Be like saying redworms are same size as night crawlers. Microworms to grindals to whiteworms to blackworms to redworms is my worm size pregression with my fish. whiteworms and blackworms are fed pretty much to same fish. Blackworms get chopped for the smaller fish.
Did you say 100 …
Did you say 100 tanks? Or 100 fish?
They seem to be the same size as grindal worms.
Very good video, …
Very good video, David. Thanks.
wine cooler – I got …
wine cooler – I got mine off Craigs List for $35.00. Size of a dorm refrigerator.
I guess I need a …
I guess I need a wine cooler.
the circle like …
the circle like pellet is a fishfood algae wafer. Fish food for plecostomus. Lots of companies make them. On top of the bread is plain yogurt.
what is the circle …
what is the circle like pellet? and what is on top of the bread?