I mentioned culturing blackworms back in May, but never followed up on a question from Bob Bock. NANFA-L- Culturing blackworms - very late response If you agree, maybe drop a line of support in that topic: There's a lot of info on this forum, but it's scattered all about and not especially easy to find. I've been lobbying to create a new live foods subforum as a place to discuss all aspects of culturing/collecting live foods. The issue is that they seem to have a pretty slow growth rate compared to other cultures - definitely not something that you can start with a small culture and have it balloon exponentially in a matter of weeks. Maybe with that large of a colony I'll get a growth rate that's sufficient to harvest sustainably. I'm thinking I might set them up in a good-sized container with sand bottom, and just concentrate on feeding them to keep them healthy while I use them up over a period of months, rather than trying to grow the culture. That's actually better than if I ordered them directly from (they quoted me about $35 including shipping for 1lb). I just contacted my local independent aquarium store, and they can sell me 1/2 lb of blackworms for $17, or 1lb for $31. I might have given up on actually culturing these guys. If anyone figures something else out, I'd love to hear it.īut. Spirulina flakes were the only food I found to work consistently - but seems there must be something cheaper that you could feed them. Suppl., 58, 1/2: 97–206.Howdy - here's something I posted to the old e-mail list back in 2006 on the topic of blackworm culture. Evolutionary and ecological strategies of animals in annual temporary pools. Die häufigsten hämoglobinführenden Oligochaeten der mitteleuropäischen, Binnengewässer. (eds), Aquatic Oligochaete Biology, Plenum Press, New York: 57–78.
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