fish_4_all
Aquarium Advice Addict
This is just some general observation I have had with some live foods.
Grindal worms: prefer cooler temps below 80 degrees and love mixed dry baby food just mixed to the point of being like putty. Easy to harvest and fish eat them readily.
White worms: prefer cooler temps and love baby cereal in same consistency as grindals. Almost impossible to harvest reliably.
Vinegar eels: Seem to do best in a large open container with a lot of surface area for air exchange. Holes in the lid seem to have the effect of a population explosion. Very little vinegar smell is ever noticed with smaller holes. Easy to harvest when ready and provide 3 days worth of fry food per harvest using test tube and filter floss method. 3:1 vinegar to water mix seems to increase production although not a certain factor, personally I think that fresh air is a key to production numbers, very little apple needed per culture, I now use only 1/8 of a small apple per 2 quart container.
Microworms: easy to produce but hard to keep up with. Cultures crash readily in warmer temps. No media produced better than others but cornmeal lead to crash of all cultures due to massive mold outbreak. Not a recommended source for reliable food unless you have a temperature controlled environment.
All worms need a temperature controlled environment to produce the best they can. High temperature seem to stunt the growth rate and reproduction.
Will be trying confused flour beetles or micro mealworms as soon as I can get a container that will certainly keep them out of the flour or my wife would kill me.
Put your experiences here with live food so others can reap the benefits and see how easy some them really are to cultivate.
Grindal worms: prefer cooler temps below 80 degrees and love mixed dry baby food just mixed to the point of being like putty. Easy to harvest and fish eat them readily.
White worms: prefer cooler temps and love baby cereal in same consistency as grindals. Almost impossible to harvest reliably.
Vinegar eels: Seem to do best in a large open container with a lot of surface area for air exchange. Holes in the lid seem to have the effect of a population explosion. Very little vinegar smell is ever noticed with smaller holes. Easy to harvest when ready and provide 3 days worth of fry food per harvest using test tube and filter floss method. 3:1 vinegar to water mix seems to increase production although not a certain factor, personally I think that fresh air is a key to production numbers, very little apple needed per culture, I now use only 1/8 of a small apple per 2 quart container.
Microworms: easy to produce but hard to keep up with. Cultures crash readily in warmer temps. No media produced better than others but cornmeal lead to crash of all cultures due to massive mold outbreak. Not a recommended source for reliable food unless you have a temperature controlled environment.
All worms need a temperature controlled environment to produce the best they can. High temperature seem to stunt the growth rate and reproduction.
Will be trying confused flour beetles or micro mealworms as soon as I can get a container that will certainly keep them out of the flour or my wife would kill me.
Put your experiences here with live food so others can reap the benefits and see how easy some them really are to cultivate.