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How to create
a micro-worms culture?
Mix about a tablespoon of corn meal with
water until it forms a paste. Then add about a quarter-teaspoon of
yeast. Place this mixture in the bottom of an empty clean glass jar
about the size of standard peanut butter jar
and add a culture of microworms.
Microworm cultures typically last about
two weeks before they need to
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Fishes eat these worms ravenously. Unlike
vinegar eels,
micro-worms
will not live long in the water, so don’t overfeed. In addition to the
microworms, the medium they live in may sometimes be introduced into the
aquarium--it, too, will be eaten by the
fish and may provide another source of fry food. |
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Newly hatched
baby brine shrimp are 0.08
to 0.12 millimeter
Tiny Foods
for Small
Fish Fry |
Once fish eggs have hatched, you’ve only just begun
the journey
to breeding fish and raising their young.
Cultured live
foods for fry include
vinegar eels,
micro-worms,
baby brine shrimp
and
infusoria
or green water
zooplankton
Brine Shrimp cultures
One way of
hatching brine
shrimp eggs is to start
with a 1-quart jar of water
with 2 teaspoons
of sea salt per quart added and 17 ounces of
brine shrimp eggs
(per quart), and the water aerate with an air pump.
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