Marine Aquarium Micro Worms Culture for Small Fry

Marine Aquarium Micro Worms Culture for Small Fry

If you are planning to spawn fishes in your aquarium, then make sure, you are well prepared to feed the fries. Many amateur fish-keepers lose their fries, as they have not planned for their food. To keep all your fries alive, they must be fed live food, rather than some crushed flakes or powdered alternatives. At the time of birth, the fries are too tiny to take these canned foods. Bacterial growth can occur due to the leftover powdered food, which may eventually kill the fries. Baby shrimp available in shops are too big for a small fry. The best option therefore, for a marine aquarium is micro worm culture.

You can culture micro worms in abundance using a feeding ring tied to a coarse net of cotton cloth. The tiny size of the micro worms makes them perfect food for fries. To begin culturing micro worms, you need a starter culture. Either this can be purchased from pet shops or you can do it in your own garden. Make 1" hole in a potato and bury it in your garden. After a week, you can find micro worms feeding on the potato. Collect the worms by washing the potato in clean spring water and filtering it using a muslin cloth.

Different Types of Culturing Media:

Cornmeal: Take a small plastic container and put the corn meal up to ¼” deep in it. Obtain a milky solution of dry yeast and lukewarm water. Add this solution to the corn meal in the container. When you find a few puddles, add starter micro worms, and cover the container with a porous lid.

Pablum: Prepare a mixture of pablum and dried yeast in the ratio 3:1. Fill it in a container up to 1/2” deep. Use water to make a thin paste of the mixture. Add some worms to the system, cover it with a porous lid, and allow it to stand at room temperature for a couple of days.

Oatmeal: Obtain a mixture of boiled oatmeal and dried yeast in the ratio 4:1. Pour it in a container up to ½” deep. Make a thin paste by adding water. Add worms and cover the container tightly with a porous lid.

Tip: Do not forget to keep a few micro worms from the previous culture in order to produce a new set of worms. Micro worms thrive in dark place and warm temperatures.

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