Competition.....Grindal Worms.........

Hi Folks,

Am going to order a grindal culture off ebay.........

Am being naughty here.........

Any hints in reply to this post which allow me to successfully culture gindal worms get a grindal worm + a whiteworm culture.....

kom

p.s. will have to ask postage if I am sucessful and more than 5 people get back to me!!

p.s.s. postage request exempts members of the CFKS members!!

Before you receive your culture you need few things.
1; you will need a container like an ice cream tub, butter tub or larger.
2; IMO a mix of 50% top soil with 50% moss peat works fine. You will need to microwave or boil this to kill of any uninvited pests.
Let this cool over night. It should be damp but not soggy. Worms don’t like it to wet or to dry.
3; A piece of glass that fits inside the tub. This will be used to collect the worms.
4; A pi-pet to feed the fish.

When you receive your starter culture place it in one corner of the tub. This will give you a good idea as how the culture is doing by the amount of worms appear on the glass. If that makes sense.
You don’t have to keep these as cool as white worms so room temperature will do.
You have to let air in but you don’t want any insects or mites. A lid with lots of small holes or a fine mesh hair net will do.

To feed the worms any old flake food or oat meal work fine. I would sprinkle the food on to the glass and mist it down with water. Worms don’t like dry food. Place the glass face down on to the culture. The worms will come up from the soil, on to the glass to feed. This makes it easy to collect them.

To collect the worms for feeding to the fish remove the glass that should have a lot of worms on it and spray down with water holding the glass over another tub or similar to collect the worms. Simple.
Use a pipet or turkey baster to suck up the worms to feed to your fish.

Once the culture is established you can make up new cultures. It is always best to have a second culture going incase your culture decides to crash.
The worms will start to die off in 24 hours or so once introduced. So don’t dump a load in your aquarium that might end up decaying in the substrate.

Hope this helps, Darren