This guys are the perfect live food, one I came across them (and scuds) I don’t try anything else, mine literally survive in a bucket outdoors all year round with the eventual vegetable scraps every now and then, they’re great!!!
After watching your original video I set up a mini version of my own using a 3 gallon shallow tub on top of a 5 gallon bucket and it works so well. I've got heaps of blackworms and it does not take much effort to maintain. So glad I came across your video.
OOOH, so THATS why everyone cultures them in gravel! In the wild htey prefer softer substrates, so I was confused about all the tutorials specifying gravel, making them segment naturally makes perfect sense.
Hey Greg! Met you yesterday at the SCTFS swap! I wish I had gotten to your table earlier, but maybe we can stay in touch for future purchases! Great video! 🤩😊👍🏻
Hi Greg, I am going to the NEC Convention looking forward to it. I was informed Father fish was not invited to talk at the convention it would be great to see him there I believe a lot of fish keepers would benefit from his many years of fish keeping Ok thank you Ray
What an amazing setup! I just ordered some blackworms to start my own culture. I only have 4 fish to feed, so I’m hoping I end up with far more than I need.
Nice setup. I keep mine outside in buckets and shallow trays. I find that the worms are vegetarian in nature, in some of my bins they eat short strands of filamentous algae and in others they eat decaying leaves. They prefer bacteria though, because where some layers pellets land in the bin near to where I throw these to my chickens, they quickly congregate around the pellets after a couple of days. A lot of earthworms drown in the bins after crawling in to eat the algae, and the worms gather around the dead body to eat the bacteria that are breaking down the flesh. All I do is collect the bunched worms using a slotted spoon. Downside is that I can only harvest during the summer.
@@DickRippEnterprises -5, -7 °C, depends on how much frost we get. We're in a frost pocket here so we tend to get lower temperatures than the surrounding area.
I asked in the other videos comment section but since this is newer I figured I'd ask here too. How do you keep the blackworms from escaping down the overflow drains?
Hey Greg thank you for the update. As I said to you before I’m putting this up in the rebuild of the fish shed. I’ll try to send ya a video of it when it’s completed Quick question if you crush those snails would that also be a good source of food for them???
Im glad i caught this youtube has failed to load your channel into my feed as usual. I live that you are using cheap quartz gravel. I have a bunch of turface soil conditioner i use. It is a fired clay product for baseball infields. I use it for aeration in potted plants, bonsai, and aquarium gravel.
@gregjonesonline that is progress do a video of the one with the most growth when you repot that'll give you the most roots for the video. I have been wanting to incorporate a bonsai into a paludarium for a long while. Probably going to use button wood FL. Native and the Caribbean.
infusoria colony above with a dripper works great as well , as they eat microbes / bacteria (that way you do not foul the water / have to separate worms from muck)
I have thought about building a rack with drawers that slide in and out like a kitchen to allow vertical stacking and easy access, I've also thought about digging some outdoor ponds and seeing what happens
It is small white quartz style gravel because I had it laying around, I like it because it provides tons of little nooks for individual worms to live in, large gravel is bad and sand is bad
We call them blood worms here. I put a container above my pond, no gravel or substrate. Just plane container above the pond where fish can't enter buy water can circulate. The reason why no substrate is for easy harvesting.
Blood worms are the larva of a fly. These black worms do not metamorphose into any kind of insect they are just worms. Hope that clears up any confusion 😊
@@dshobe720 I looked up and you are right about blood worms. But the black worms in this video, in are country, we call them blood worms, tubifex and sludge worms.
@@laughingman_confused awesome I have to go catch some. I have plans on making salamanders and newts a nice home and want to be able to feed them a home grown meal, also because the nearest pet store is an hour away and it is not a good one.
