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Anyone raise microfex (dero worms)?


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Posted 23 November 2009 - 12:16 AM

It seems like they're worth it even though they're expensive and take a little work. A tiny worm high in protein would be of great use.

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Posted 23 November 2009 - 03:05 PM

I have a friend who is somewhat of a live food expert. He gave me cultures of them on two different occasions, and I'm not exactly sure how, but I managed to screw them up both times. I may try again and ask for coaching, because they are awesome little critters, and the second batch of them I had seemed to be reproducing fairly quickly.

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Posted 23 November 2009 - 07:56 PM

I have a friend who is somewhat of a live food expert. He gave me cultures of them on two different occasions, and I'm not exactly sure how, but I managed to screw them up both times. I may try again and ask for coaching, because they are awesome little critters, and the second batch of them I had seemed to be reproducing fairly quickly.


I read a little bit about them in a betta book this morning. The author fed heavily every day and changed 75% of their water once a day. Apparently they need good water quality and lots of food but not too little or the culture crashes from the ones that die-off I guess. That must be why they're tricky.

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Posted 24 November 2009 - 11:05 AM

...on two different occasions, and I'm not exactly sure how, but I managed to screw them up both times...


Ditto; I have tried twice and have not succeeded.

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Posted 24 November 2009 - 07:30 PM

they're much more easier to take care than microworms and less smelly!!!!!!!


My trick was to have daphnia with em- I fed the daphnia an alage wafer to make infusia (spelling) bloom and the daphnia fed off that and the the worms fed off other stuff- it was a dependent relationship with each other- the only trick was to use aged water- I aged my tap water for such like 2 weeks at a time-


Cheers

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Posted 25 November 2009 - 12:06 PM

Where did you get your original stock?

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Posted 25 November 2009 - 07:59 PM

Are they the same as whiteworms? I've seen those guys cultured those on peat.




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