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Vineger eels

Vinegar eels are an aquatic nematode that are not eels, but do live in vinegar. They are a couple of millimeters long and are very easily cultured. Take a one gallon glass jar, and add 5 parts water and 1 part cider vinegar. Add a small piece (one ...

Catching Live Food From Ponds

Once you have decided to collect live food, the first thing you must do is find a pond that contains the food you are after. You should look for a fairly small pond that is partly stagnant, but not polluted, and contains very few or no fish ...

Charles' Harrison's Live Food Cultures

Charles keeps quite a few live food cultures, but I include here his white worms, because he keeps them going and I don't, and his brine shrimp hatchery, which seems to be a very efficient setup. Charles' White Worms Charles keeps these in a ...

Culture Techniques of Moina : The Ideal Daphnia for Feeding Freshwater Fish Fry 1

Introduction Daphnia are small freshwater cladoceran crustaceans commonly called "water fleas." This common name is the result not only of their size, but their short, jerky hopping movement in water. The genera ...

Culturing Daphnia In Eight Easy Steps

Culturing Daphnia In Eight Easy Steps - This is the inspiration you need to get started with live food culturing. Daphnia are very interesting creatures, but they are also easy and fun to culture. Give these little critters a try, your fish will love ...

Culturing Microworm

Culturing Microworm: 1: First you will need a small - medium (about 500ml) plastic pot with tight fitting lid such as a margarine tub or Tupperware. Make a few small holes in the lid for ventilation. 2: Mix oats with boiling water into a thic ...

Culturing Microworms

by John Sipes & Mark Weierman First published in Fincinnati, the official newsletter of the Greater Cincinnati Aquarium Society Aquarticles These tiny critters are really not worms but rather nematodes. Nematodes are on ...

Culturing Redworms for Fish Food

by Joseph S. of California Aquarticles.com Most aquarists are perfectly happy with using commercially prepared dried foods or commercially prepared frozen foods. However, some of us either want to be cheap, are hungry for mo ...

Culturing Rotifers

Freshwater rotifers are very easy to raise. The one I have is Philodina but others should take the same care. I also raise Paramecium using this same method. You can use just about any size container for culturing. Just depends on how much you ...

Culturing White worm

White worm are small 1cm worms ideal for feeding to small amphibians such as Dendrobates, Bombina, and larvae. They are high in fat and can live for up to 2 days submerged in water, this makes them ideal for feeding to small aquatic species such ...

Culturing White Worms

Culture Container. The worms don't seem particular as long as it is dark and damp. Some use wooden boxes covered with a piece of thin. Plastic boxes are perfectly acceptable provided that they do not let in light. If the box is pl ...

Culturing White Worms (Enchytraeus albidus)

As a starter, for those who may be concerned, white worms look like human pinworms, but cannot successfully infect a human due to the low temperature requirements of this worm, and to the best of my ...

Culturing Whiteworms

  Nothobranchius foerschi TZL49-01White worms (Enchytraeus albidus) are a fantastic treat for adult killifish, and they are rarely turned down. They are aquatic-disease free, are full of fat a ...

Culturing Wingless Fruit Flies

I use 1/4 cup of Mc Cains instant mashed potatoes, 2 tsp. of corn flour, 1 tsp. brewers yeast, and a 1/4 tsp. of white granular sugar. Mix to a buttery paste with pure apple cider vinegar. - Charlie Drew Take a quart mason jar, put about ...

Culturing Woodlice

Common Pill Woodlouce (Armadillidium vulgare): Large (2cm) grey temperate species. Hatchling lice are an ideal food for small or juvenile Newts and Toads. Common Striped Woodlouce (Philoscia muscorum): Medium sized (11mm) light grey temperate s ...

Daphnia Cultures the Easy Way

Daphnia (daff-NEE-ah) are small freshwater crustaceans belonging to the order Cladocera and are found nearly everywhere in the world. They are an important food source for most aquatic insects, amphibians, birds, and of course, fish. High in protein ...

Dwarf African Redworms

Dwarf redworms are a worm from Africa that makes an excellent fish food. They are easy to take care of and they reproduce quickly. The first thing you need are about 6 to 10 adult worms. The next thing you need is a container to rai ...

Earth worms

About Keeping Feeding Live Collected Cultured Worms Micro Vineger Grindal White Earth Infusoria Daphnia Rotifers Moina ...

Easy Live foods

This article discusses several easily cultured live foods: daphnia, microwoms, fruit flies, grindal worms and white worms. Live foods are a great way to put fish in spawning condition and are a necessity for many species which will not accept either ...

Enchytraeus albidus - Or White Worms to You and Me

White worm is just one of at least four types of worm which we as aquarists can culture, on a regular basis, in order to maintain a continuous supply of one of the best kinds of live food our fish could wish for. Whilst it does involv ...

Feeding White Worms

All aquarists have heard of the term "white worms", but interestingly not everyone has made this easily propagated, clean, appetising, live food available to their fish. Scientific name: Family : Enchytraeidae, Generic Name : Enchytr ...

Fruit Fly Cultures

Fruit Fly Cultures - Fruit flies are easy to culture, provide outstanding value to aquarists and offer superb nutrition for tropical fish. If you are looking to start culturing live foods, you have come the right place. Overview: Wild f ...

GRINDAL worms

Grindal worms are fairly easy to culture. They're about half an inch long and thinner then a pencil lead; they're slightly less fatty than white worms and thus may be fed mo ...

Grindal Worm Cultures

Grindal Worm Cultures - Grindal worms are one of the absolute best live foods available! They are nutritious and delicious, small enough for fry, but large enough to interest smaller adult fish. Grindals are almost too easy to culture! Ove ...

Growing White worms

White worms are one of the easiest and best food to culture for feeding to killifish but are just as suitable for all freshwater tropical fish. They do not suffer pests like grindal worms do, the cultures don't stink and rot like fruit fly cultures, ...

Infusoria and Paramoecium

  A single paramoecium - Photograph Adrian BurgeMany young fish are so small when they first hatch that they can not eat traditional 'first foods' such as n ...

Introduction to fruit flies

What is a fruit fly?Fruit flies are small flies that live on and around decaying fruit and vegetation. They occur worldwide, except the very coldest regions. The species most familiar to scientists, aquarists and herpatologists are in the genus Droso ...

Jack Heller's Live Food Culture Notes

ack and I did a program on live food cultures for a MASI meeting, and these are his notes on how he keeps his going.   I incorporated some of his techniques into my notes, but here is the real thing. Live Foods for Aquarium Fi ...

Keeping Earthworms and Getting Better Compost

Even before I took up tropical fish again after our move back to Calgary I had started to compost our vegetable and fruit cuttings in an attempt to think globally but act locally. My first attempt at composting (which is still going on) was ...

Lettuce Have Infusoria

by Deborah & Rodney Ralph First published in Tank Talk, Canberra and District Aquarium Society, Australia Aquarticles This is one way of getting infusoria easily, quickly, cheaply and without much fuss. Bits and pieces ...

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