What to do with your White Worm starter culture
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- This video shows you how to turn your white worm starter culture into a larger, mature culture that you can feed from.
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There, you can purchase white worms, microworms, scuds and a variety of other beneficial live microfauna cultures.
Thank you for all your support! Keep experimenting!
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I’m so glad I found you I have bought two cultures and only one has any worms and there were only a teaspoon of worms max. They have already increased in size but it’s so slow.
Good instructional video. Many channels have done how-to videos on raising live foods, but something you rarely see is a video about how they live in nature. I would like to see such a video, and I think this is the perfect channel to explore such a topic. Just my thoughts... great content!
Thanks you very much. I appreciate you watching. That's also a great idea to implement in the future.
Love your video. I've been wanting to try culturing white worms for a long time but didn't know how to start. Now I can't wait to start. I saw that you fed them through a syringe in some white solution. Can you show that portion of your video, the harvesting and feeding in that solution please?
I've gotten white worms from him. And I gotta say it's still going and just overall good experience.
Thank you so much for the support! Always appreciate the feedback! 😁😁😁
Hey there! I feel more confident now about my worms. Just need to figure out how I’m gonna keep a cooler environment. This is great info video 👍👍
Make video of tubifex culture please
Just got mine! Soo excited!☺️
Thank you so much for the support! Good luck with them. Once they get going, you'll want to always have them.
Give us one like this on the micro worms. I always feel like I’m just putting yuck in tank. And need reminders on how to keep them fresh and multiply
Can you this type of video with Scuds and other live cultures you sell. Thank you. I will be ordering soon
Yes! all are in the works. Thank you for the support!
Would a fridge work or is that too cold ?
I liked this video, but I have some questions please - for OP, or another person reading this message:
- Is tap water, with conditioner, OK when mixing soil up for new culture (3.59) ?
- How do I collect and separate the worms from the soil? You use a gauze pad (8.30). What is that pad made of... would a cotton pad work? You seem to have a syringe full of them (15.15). Do you mix the worms with water then suck them up somehow?
- What if I over feed my fishes? Will the worms live a day or two (or three?) in the fish tank?
Many thanks in advance.
Ha, I found most of my questions answered in your other video "Feeding and Harvesting White Worms". Thanks again.
Yes, Hope that helped. Email me if you have more questions I don't always get back to these right away! Thanks!
Are these the thinner longer tropical white worms (room temp), or are they they shorter fatter white worms (50F) ?
Big…THANK YOU… for doing this video! This explains a lot n it should definitely help me out! 👍🤡👍
Thanks for watching! 👀👀👀
Can I buy a white worm culture
Non organic soil could have chemical fertilizers that may be harmful to shrimp.
Great video! Are there other options for food for the worms other than oatmeal? Thanks!
Yes, they will eat many things. They love plain greek yogurt, rotting veggie scraps, fish food... probably moistened plain breakfast cereals. Hope this helps
How I can. Order from you
Can we start doing it newly without the starter culture?
Are these pin worms, like the parasite?
What is the lowest temp they can handle? Is a fridge too cold?
A fridge won't kill them but from what I understand they go kind of dormant and don't reproduce. I have never personally tried it... I have had customers tell me they have had success in the 60s and low 70s.
Should I try coir (coco peat) ?
It might be worth experimenting with.
I have not tried it myself but have heard it's not as good as soil. Good luck!
Can we do it without the starter culture?
Do you also do blackworms
No, I do not. 😁😁😁
These cultural you have is it Enchytraeus albidus white worm species or Enchytraeus buchholzi Grindal worm species? I don’t know much and I tend to buy the wrong culture.. thank you..
I purchased them as Enchytraeus albidus white worm from a fish show long ago. They culture best at lower temps... 55-60ish is ideal would be worth experimenting with at higher temps. A basement floor is usually adequate. I use a wine cooler and freezer that's been converted into a worm cooler to culture mine. Good luck and thanks for watching 😁
Can you put in refrigerator? How do you know if Parasites or harmful things. I see that you mentioned that you sell them also.
The refrigerator is too cold. It doesn't kill them but they don't really reproduce well. Typically a basement floor is great. I have also had several customers have success without being at the optimal cold temperature... I do sell them on my website. There is more information about their care on the site.
www.phillipsfishworks.com/product-page/white-worm-starter-culture-8-oz
@phillipsfishworks , I live in Florida, and my entire 1 story is always at 78 degrees
How to make my own white wormsl cultures? I am from EU!
I thought you would put them in your aquarium and let them dig in the substrate...
You would do that with black worms. White worms will drown in water
Those worms are gross