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Live Fish Food - California Blackworms Culture For My Bettas!
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- Опубліковано 15 гру 2018
- Look, another vid on live fish food! California blackworms are a great culture to keep for my bettas. What ARE these things and why are they so great anyways?
Fish love blackworms, especailly all the fish in my fish room. I need to get a nice culture going!
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“Don’t tell my family I put worms in the fridge.” 🤣 🤣 🤣
Exactly how I feel when I bring different fish/pet foods in...shhhhhhh! 🤫
LOl!!
Never seen a girl so excited about worms 😂. Great vid lol
I was the weird kid digging up worms on the playground
I hope no one went to that fridge for a midnight snack!
They do not breed they reproduce through breakage. Each part grows into a new worm. They are only kept cold to slow down their metabalism. Keep at room temp is fine. I keep in sharpe gravel to increase breakage when stiring. Keep water clean with a foam filter and feed infrusia, Algea powder(Spirolena) or regular fish food they eat mostly anything you give them including fish edible plants. The more messy the food the more often you will need to do water changes.
I could have explained that better!
Ive never heard of these guys... 😳
Creative Pet Keeping now you want some don't you. 😂
Creative Pet Keeping they’re delicious 😋🤤😅
Thought I saw some leeches .
Your so awesome for sharing this. Iv been keeping fish for YEARS and oly ever thought of mosquito larvae and baby brine shrimp. Now I got my first white worm culture and they sit in the corner and beg for morw
Good to hear! I love when the cultures get really productive and I can just scoop up worms like there is no tomorrow!
My fishes love these. My LFS sells them for 1$ only for a serving which is about the amount you have in the cup. I'm so lucky to have 5 fish stores within 10 miles from me.
Lucky! I have to buy mine $60 at a time, sigh
I guess theyre like Tublifex Worms that thrive on bacteria. Some people in Thyland put Tubliflex in with their Betta fry to keep the tank clean. The fry are too small to eat them so it works out great.
I love the enthusiasm for black worms .
Haha thank you. I like creepy slimy things
@@SimplyBetta How did your experiment go? Did you get them to start breeding for you ? And where can I purchase live black worms ? I can't find any locally .
My bettas are normally picky about what they eat but...they went ape over blackworms! The murderer within them came out lol Even the guppies were thrilled about them.
Haha that sounds about right! I've only met one fish that didn't eat blackworms. That guy was a total weirdo.
You are brave to touch the worms, lol
I was the weird kid on the playground digging up worms
Great video. Was a good video, I buy them locally, so seeing how this works out so I can stop buying and raise my own. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks! I hope I can prove that culturing them can be fruitful. I'll measure the volume in a few more weeks to test
Amazing
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I have one going but I’m using plain ink less cardboard pieces and I’ve been also feeding them some fish flakes . It seems like they’re healthy and getting really long . A friend told me it’s better to cut them in smaller pieces before feeding them to my bettas but I like the way they chase them when I release them into the containers 😅 I usually feed the smaller ones live
I love these guys! Blackworms most commonly reproduce asexually through fragmentation. A worm breaks apart and both pieces redevelop whatever they’re missing and they become a completely new worm. Love your videos, Taylor!
I guess I could have explained that better in the video but I was being lazy! haha maybe in my update video. I have heard that because of that it is better to house them on a gravel substrate because it will encourage fragmentation but I'm not enturely sure how accurate that is
It worked really well for me when I kept blackworms. I would occasionally (and gently!) move the gravel around with my fingers to encourage fragmentation. Can’t wait for the update.
aw they look so happy eating worms
Filet Mignon you say, yum. Cant wait to see the how this works for you.
yum indeed!
Black worms are a much healthier food for Bettas than Tubifex. Rinsing them out prior to each feeding is always a good idea. Your Bettas look fantastic, Taylor. Keep up the great work and thanks for sharing this video with us. Happy Holidays.
Thank you, that is what I have heard about blackworms vs. tubifex! Appreciate it
Hmm.. wonder if I can get a hold on these guys in NZ. Thanks for sharing! 🙂
CrystalShack Aquatics hey I’m from no too
I heard if you use 5-6 inches of water, with a sponge filter and an air stone, also with gravel as substrate that they tend to do really good. I think black worms themselves don’t breed but they break into segments and that’s how they repopulate. That’s why I think gravel will be better because the segments get broken up much easier especially since their food tends to sink down and they ball up too.
I have hard that about gravel! I might have to try that
@1:56 Awesome...and a little bit creepy. Looking forward to part 2. Maybe I could grow these in my community tank, or maybe guppies and cories get ‘em all too fast.
your cories would dig them all up and feast on them and be soooo happy haha
I feed mine fish food. They are raised in the planted tanks with my fish. They act just like a terrestrial earthworm in an aquarium.
Given a good substrate, they keep it turned over and reproduce like mad. My fish eat their fill whenever they want. I run them in cold and warm water tanks. I feel blackworms are a healthy part of the soil ecology in a healthy aquarium.
They also live in my filter/sumps.
That is a great idea, I wish I would have put them into some more of my tanks!
If I may ask where did you buy em at? My local fish store sells them for $3 a TBS and to me that seems like a bit too much.
Online from a farm in california
All hail the worm queen 😂 great content.
haha behold the worm queen!
Omg I love your vibez
Yay culture's. So happy
I feed my betta baby red wigglers occasionally. I keep them for composting.
I’ve been waiting for this video!!! Yay
Haha hope you enjoyed it
Awesome! Can’t wait to see if this works! There are not any specialty type pet stores around me so I don’t have access to a lot of things. I have to order them off line and wait for them. So I’m trying to start my own cultures of things. I just got a culture of vinegar eels.
vinegar eels are a great start! So good for fry
Can I add these to a shrimp only aquarium? I wonder if they'd be a good cleanup crew.
Probably but you might get ugly masses of wriggling worms waving around : )
Oh man, I still can’t stop staring at those bettas, especially those cheetah/leopard kois...
thank you! : )
Looking forward to seeing how this works out and I’ll be doing it too!! Best discus food there is.
Thanks! I hope I get a good growth in population!
Love your videos :) keep us posted . Oh yea and some beautiful shots with you new hand made show aquariums !!! Great work
Thanks! Haha loving my new photo tanks
Hi Simply betta
Do sterile the blackworms before feeding to fishes to prevent diseases
I got mine from aquaticfoods.com which claims to be disease-free because they don't keep fish in with their blackworms.
I may try keeping live fish food someday, but I think if I went in for these things my husband would disown me. :D
My hubby knew what he was getting into.... ;)
This is such a cliff hanger! ;) We could use an update on how your experiments went.
I truly love the live food aspect, however I am a wee bit squeamish with worms. I often wonder when people lose fish young, if there wasn't something funky with the Frozen commercial food for them. I prefer to learn how to grow my own. the vinegar eels I got from you are still going strong, btw.
Great! Vinegar eels are such a good fry food. My grindal cultures ended up all crashing for good so I started over a few weeks ago, hope I get some good growth
I regret not buying a small starter culture from eBay. I got moina instead.
id sure love to know where to get live black worms iv look everywhere just to hit a blockage or dead end road my corys and black neons would love them
@Simply Betta did you do an update video on the blackworms? I'm not sure if I'm just not seeing it....I have my culture going and would love any tips
Great!
Why won't my Betta eat freeze dried bloodworms... He's super picky about flakes too, I have to make sure I only out in the largest flakes otherwise he ignores them completely. Any help? Maybe get some Betta tetra plus pellets
HYPEBUCE try live food, tubifex is the BEST.
Maybe some pellets?
I don't have any aquariums right now, I used to have quite a few, never had a planted tank. Always wanted one, would like to try again, just don't know if my health and age will allow it. IF I do I know I want some male bettas, BUT I'd also like a female sorority........ That would mean two different aquariums, plus a hospital tank.unfortunately I don't have the room.So will have to decide what I really want, thinking about getting a 20 gal with a divider and have 2 male bettas, instead of the females. On to live food, as much as I'd love to breed bettas, no room, so I'd only want live food to spoil my bettas, just not sure would be easiest, since would not need a lot. Maybe should just stick to frozen hmmmmmmmm?
Frozen is easy but if you wanted a pretty easy worm to culture I would recommend grindal worms! But frozen is the easiest because it is one less thing to worry about
I thought the farms in california stopped shipping until further notice due to droughts.
Well the place I got them from was limiting orders to nothing over a quarter lb
@@SimplyBetta what site did you get them from? would like my bettas to have some live food.
@@SimplyBetta ??? Would really like to know what website Since the main website has stopped shipping altogether of blackworms and I can't seem to find them anywhere
When i went on holydays, i had my dad feed my fish and he overfed my betta and i had like 3 blackworms in my aquarium, i got scared and instantly made a full water change, they were not brown like those that you have, they were really black, i read that they could appear after overfeeding, i didnt know if they were like parasite worms or harmless
They sound like detritus worms. Look up pics and see if thats it, they're harmless
Always enjoy your videos Taylor. Educational and you make even the most unique topics fun.
I appreciate that!
I’m starting my own culture of blackworms today, and I can’t find your other videos on this. What method worked the best, any of them?
I went to my lps and bought some a few times and recently I keep finding them with leaches in them like wow
Very interested in this! I have a culture of blackworms in my fridge, no filter or anything and I feed them zucchini ends, or, well, they eat the decaying zucchini ends, which I guess is the bacteria. Anyway, if there is a better way and a possibility to get the culture growing I'm very interested!
Where did you find your black worm culture can't find them anywhere
I just bought a betta yesterday and i think its about To die now he keeps acting strange like falling To the bottom and not moving he refused To eat too i Feel really bad
not a good sign :(
Unfortunately the fish later died
thanks for replying
@@@SimplyBetta
any update on the black worm experiment?
I didn't really notice any population growth, so I decided it wasn't worth the tank space it was taking up. I'll stick with terrestrial worms like grindals and white worms
No update? Do you still have this culture or did you feed them all?
Need some links for Online shop to buy these black worms
I've never seen a black, black worm, shouldn't they be called browm worms? or chocolate?
Can live worms be used for when you leave on vacation?
Merry Christmas, hohoho… what about earth worms? Would they be too big. I am thinking the red ones..
Haha hello! Earth worms are an option but I don't think they have a very high protein content. I think.
Any updates on these guys? :)
Question were did u buy your worms I’m thinking of some for my fancy gold fish, not sure if their good to give them,
Any update on your blackworms ?
Where do u order your cultures from?
I got mine from aquaticfoods.com
Why are black worms so freaking expensive? I’ve seen prices like 50 bucks for. 1/8 pound I feel like that is ridiculous
Any update on this
Where can I get them from? My local pet stores have not even heard of them!
If your LFS doesn't carry them, you can check online!
Where did you get these guys? Im already buying a bunch of starter cultures so why not get everything lmao.
Where can you buy them on the east coast?
Omg I love you! You and Rachel are my hero’s lol! Also quick question during the summer when it rains here in Oklahoma we get these long really thin little worms we call horse hair worms idk what they actually are. Are the black worms?
Gosh I'm not sure I've never seen those worms! Thanks for watching and enjoying!
I have a silly question...how do you know they are dead? Especially, when they are in such large masses?
You will know! When they're dead they are limp and greyish. Live ones are nice and black and wiggle around
Where did you order your black warms? please share it with us.
aquaticfoods.com I think
I'm behind on watching you (health stuff), and wonder how your black worm culture is doing. They were my preferred Betta food for older babies and adults, but I always bought them from a broker who came to our fish club meetings. Interested in how you raise them yourself. Black worms and newly-hatched brine shrimp, I think, are the best Anabantoid foods. :)
Nice vid! I'm thinking of getting a betta. Do they do well with two guppies (about an inch) and 2 ghost shrimp (one an inch another 0.75 and still growing)
It is possible it would do well and leave your guppies and shrimp alone. It is also possible that it will be mean. It just depends on the personality!
Simply Betta thank you so much! Thanks for replying
Where can I purchase Black Worms to start?
Saludos desde México.
Saludos!
Taylor, thanks for sharing the info!! BTW, you have my dream Betta...A Yellow Koi :) If you ever sell any...PLEASE let me know!! Merry Christmas!!
haha thank you - keep checking in because I might have a new successful spawn from that pair!
How do I get my Betta fry to put on some size? They are 3 weeks old and still look soo tiny.
Please help 🙄
Any updates on the black worms culture? I want to try and start a culture as will for my bettas.
Right! I need to do an update :-)
Does petsmart sell live black worms?
any update?
Is that a cryborg
@simplybetta I have a quick question!! I just got my two bettas to breed, she dropped some eggs, and they have been wrapping for at least 2 hours.. now how do I know when they are done?! Will they continue to wrap until she's done dropping eggs or just keep going at it?? Lol this is the first time I've bred and i really don't want to mess this up! Helpppp
They will keep wrapping until they're done! The male will start chasing her away once it is finished
AWESOME
Your eyes wild
So can I buy this on Amazon
At what age do you start feeding your betta fish black worms?
Whenever they seem big enough to take one down :)
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Thanks because your video im so be know about Beta fish
Thanks Yudi!
Do you sell... the place i was looking at only sells in California
Yes, when I put fish on my site!
Halo I'm From Indonesia. I Very Very Like All Your Videos..Can I Ask Something? Until Now I Can't Culture Daphnia, Every Time I'd Tried, Every Time Died...Can You Culture Daphnia? If You can, I'm Very Happy If You Share On UA-cam..thank You...
Ewwwww! But I want some. My Bettas would love them. Where did you order your worms from?
Some farm online I can't remember!
what about tubifex worms
The consensus is that blackworms are better than tubifex
What do you do with your female bettas after 2 months after breeding? Do you sell it and is there anybody who buys female bettas?
personally I love female Bettas. They are just as beautiful
I usually keep my breeder females. Most females I breed are quite pretty and go to the pet store ; )
How did the culture turn out? Still going?
I didn’t notice any significant growth of the culture so I ended up just feeding them all to my fish and using that tank for something else. Space is a precious resource for me so I’ve decided that using my white worm and grindle worm cultures are a better use of space!
How many worms do you feed per fish mam.
I feed until I see a nice full belly, but not too full :)
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*Sale
Not right now!
How much for that Betta ?
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My betta wont eat anything except frozen shrimp.. even after fasting
Spoiled rotten maybe?
3:55 that's definitely a leech....😨
If you let it sit at room temperature for an hour or so, they start climbing the container & can be easily plucked out. Aside from you, those can be bad news for your betta(s)...
Feed them oat meal cooked and raw
EauuuGross Gross Grosssssss. But I bet the fish are al YUMM YUM YUMMM =P
Oh my goodness! Girl how can you touch those nasty things. Lol I can't hardy any bugs. A lady bug is about the only thing I can touch & then I don't look to close. I don't want to see the nasty eyes & antanas. Lol Love your videos!
I like worms : 0
@@SimplyBetta lol
:)