How Do You Culture Your Microworms

[BWBettas]

***Everyone Feel Free To Add Your Variatoin On How You Culture Your Microworms Here***

I Use:

2 Litre Ice Cream Tub
Starter Culture From A Member
Plain White Bread
Warm Water

STEP 1:
I thouroughly clean the tub with warm water and dry with kitchen roll

STEP 2:
Place 1 sliceof bread in the tub. (add some bits to edges if there are gaps)

STEP 3:
Let it cool down a little bit and add your microworm culture to the middle of the tub... (this way they make their way evenly to the edge of the tub.)

STEP 4:
Harvest your microworms every day!! mine thrive with this method and i have to wipe them off every day!
Also add a few flakes of fish food every 5 days to act as food.

STEP 5:
Restart your culture every 2-3 weeks with 10 spoonfuls of your old culture


As I Said Feel Free To Add Your Variations Here


Bret

 

[nativecollector]

small 1.5 pint rubbermaid bowls
make some oatmeal (non instant, although instant would work)
coat the bottom of the bowl with the oatmeal once it has cooled
add about 5-6 grains of bakers yeast
cut a papertowel (good quality ones that dont tear up when they get wet) so that it covers almost all of the oatmeal
using a starter culture from an existing culture place the papertowel with the starter on it directly on the oatmeal
then using the newly cut papertowel wet it and place it over the entire bottom of the bowl
useing one more piece of papertowel cut a small square like the one that was used with the starter culture dont wet this peice and place it on top of the second papertowel.

So the set up should be bottom to top
oatmeal
starter culture papertowel (small square piece)
wet papertowel to almost cover the entire bottom
dry paper towel on the top (small square piece)

To harvest worms give them about 4 days to fill the top papertowel and then remove the top piece and swish it around in the tank. The culture is clean of any debris or culturing media and all that goes into the tank is worms by the millions. Ring out the papertowel that you used to feed with and place it back on top of the culture for the next harvest.

The reason for the strong papertowels well if you used the cheaper ones they will tear apart during the feeding process and there would be papertowel in the tank.

I normally have three to five cultures going at one time depending on how many little ones I have to feed.

rotate or replace culture every month, I have let one go for almost three months other than getting extremely dry with a little smell, it was still just as good as it was when I first started it. Although this is not recommended. Smell reasons

 

[ILM]

I use 16 oz. plastic deli containers that I can get cheap at the restaurant supply store (lids sold separately). I use a Ziplock container to cook oatmeal (I eat regular or old fashion oatmeal so I use that when the worms need to be subcultured) in the microwave, let it cool (not too liquidy). Sometimes I put in yeast but just as often I forget to and the worms seem to do just as well either way. Put in some worms. Punch holes in the lids. I usually leave the new cultures in the kitchen for a few days because it's just a little warmer (right now anyway) then out on the porch but eventually, the tubs go out the porch. To harvest, I let the worms climb up the side of the tubs, then I put on a disposable surgical glove ('cause my hands are always chapped and cracked), swipe my finger across the worms only on the sides and then swish the gloved finger in the water. At the moment I don't need more than a container or 2 but when we have lots of babies to feed, I start up a bunch of containers.

 

[ezrock]

i use the simple bread/water/yeast method mentioned on my site www.buymicroworms.com (a little shameless plug...but it's only for info now...no microworm selling).

-Ian

 

[OhMyDog]

I throw in a piece of brown bread, add a bit of warm water, throw a bit of yeast on top of the bread, and then add the culture. As soon as I start noticing the culture dying out, I add a bit more yeast or bread. The culture usually lasts a good month or two before they need to be restarted.

 

[Synirr]

STEP 1:
Place 1/2" of oatmeal baby cereal in small plastic tupperware container

STEP 2:
Moisten until it has a paste-like consistency, sprinkle yeast on top

STEP 3:
Add starter culture

STEP 4:
Neglect for months, restart when it starts to smell or right before a pair spawns

 

[BettaGardener]

I use clear plastic storage containers... you can see them in this pic (bottom left corner, under a tank)

For the growing medium, I use a mix of white corn meal, whole wheat flour, water, andyeast.

I cook 1 cup of white corn meal in 2 cups boiling water -- looks just like cream 'o wheat when done. When cooled, I spoon it into the containers, add a tablespoon of wheat flour and a pinch of yeast. After I mix it together, if it's too thick, I'll add a little more water until it's about the consistency of a thick milkshake. Then I add the starter culture of microworms (from previous culture about to turn), gently mix it in, and let it sit for a few days. When the mixture starts looking too soupy, I'll add more wheat flour and a teensy bit more yeast to thicken it up.

I get lots and lots and lots of microworms this way... more than I know what to do with. Anyone need a starter culture?