microworms as a living food
Microworms are often given as a living food for
small fishes. The biggest advantage of microworms
is that are very easy to grow, there biggest
disadvantage is that they smell.
how to start with microworms
Use mall plastic or glass jars to cultivate them,
do it at room temperature. Start with a very small
amount of microworms.
The whole cycle can be done in one week.
microworms produce living offspring, and live for
three weeks.
what you have to do
You have to add a mixture to your starting set
of microworms, after one week the worms crawl
against the wall of the jar, you can
collect them by using as small brush.
They will stick to the brush
and can be given to youre young fish.
the mixture for microworms
There are very many recepts to make a mixture,
the easiest are:
- add half a liter hot water to four spoons of maizena,
to produce a mixture, whenn its cool, youre ready.
- add hot milk to Brinta or oatmeal, if its cool again,
youre mixture is ready.
- add beer to milk, and you have youre mixture.
- baker's yeast and water.
- cornmeal, baker's yeast and water
- baby oatmeal cereal, baker's yeast and water
alternatives
If you dont want a smelling culture of microworms you
can use vinegar eels.
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Microworms contain al lot of fat.
