Farming Bloodworm or any live food

Dave

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Ive just got a second hand tank, but its a bit shaby looking and probably wouldn't want to put fish in it. So I thought it would be a good Idea to use it for making food.

Does anyone know how to farm blood worm or some kind of live food?
I think this will save me a fortune on live food if its possible :D
 
well i would say go to the local pond and get some water from that and put it in the tank i think it will be full of small food like dafnia cyclops and such just leave it without a strong filter and some plants plenty of alge if needs be and they will multiply cyclops will anyways maybee some of the other speicies will too ive just looked at my cray tank and they are doing fine in there they seem to have taken over most of it.
 
I did a bit of research a while back on creating a whiteworm culture (there's lots of internet sites about it). Trouble is you need to have a bit of culture to start off with, i.e. someone who has one can give you a few worms. I though the local fish shop might sell starter cultures but alas not. Theyre not stupid are they?, why sell starter cultures to discourage people buying their live food, Its almost free money.

If anyone lives in London and could part with a little bit of their culture of any worm type for tropical fish I would be very grateful and pop over to collect.

I also read about a brine shrimp colony but that looks more complicated as you need aeration.

Billy
 
Im sure i read a post somewhere here that all you do is put some leaves on top of water and in a few days you'll have bloodworms. Dont ask me how it works, i just read it
 
dg your right i read that also and im shure some one has mensioned it to me as well. i forgot to mension that its good to have some straw i nthe water to breed many macro bio thingys.
also lettuce helps to make milky water to feed your micro thingys on.
 
Hi Dave

I have just started a brine shrimp culture in a spare tank (well it wasn't spare, but i have rehomed the fish to another tank). I will be posting a Hot Too in the DIY section soon.
 
I collect the larvae of various flying insects in the summer by placing buckets of dechlorinated water outside in the garden,i then harvest them one at a time so i have a fairly constant supply.I mainly get black mosquito larvae but sometimes after the buckets have been there for a while and built up a bit of sludge in the bottom i get the odd bloodworm.

To be honest for the ammount of live food you are likely to use it is far easier to just buy it from the lfs,my local does live food at 60 pence a portion so even a bag a day wouldnt break the bank.
 
Thanks everyone, I didn't thik it would be that easy Jamnog. What kind of pump would I need.

CFC, how do you harvest the larvae in the Buckets -_- ? Oh and by the way up here in Bonny Scotland a bag of live blood worm set u back about £1.50, and a bag of that a day for my fish would break the bank. Maybe not for you rich southerners though :lol: :p :lol: And besides you hardly get enough to feed my Catfish in one bag.

dolphin I look forward to seeing your post in the DIY section.

By the way I have to confess I thought you only got blood worm and Mosquito larvae from abroad, not in the uk! How thick am I? :*)
 
DG bloodworms are the larvae of another kind of mosquito,fortunately not a biting species since they are quite big.

Dave,i harvest the bloodworms by netting the larvae out of one bucket at a time so that by the time i net the larvae out of the last bucket the first one has new ones in it.
"Rich southerners" i wish,if i were rich id have more tanks :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
I bought a brine shrimp culture kit today from the website below. At £35 & I reckon I need a £10 pump too, it wasnt cheap.

Apparanently 10g of cysts give u about 2.3million brine shrimp!, so I guess the weeniest speck is needed to get it going.

I reckon it will take about a year and a half to recoup the costs @ 60p a bag so its a long term investment. But its going to be fun, and I hopefully will have brine shrimp on tap, and my family and friends will get free brine shrimp too.

I spoke to a man in the fish shop who said that he knew someone who hatched them low cost in a large jam jar with no aeration with lots of success.

I'll let you know how I get on. Brine shrimp here we come.

Billy



http://www.cellpharm.co.uk/brine_shrimp1.htm
 
u can buy sea monkeys dead cheap cant u????? i call them sea monkeys coz it sounds better hahahahaha

all u need is an airstone n some water n maybe a lil salt n they hatch apparently
 
cat fish crazy said:
DG bloodworms are the larvae of another kind of mosquito,fortunately not a biting species since they are quite big.
Cheers,

I always wondered what they were :)
 

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