The best tips for raising massive quantities of white worms. This method is almost unchanged after more than 10+ years of raising white worms. I easily raise more worms than I can feed to 80 tanks. Here is how.
Awesome Video David, still helping people out who are coming into the hobby! Started micro Worms already and going to get these guys going this week. Thank you for all your quality information in your videos 🙏🤟
Great video. People make the "you have to move old cultures to new ones" part sound so hard and annoying when it is actually very easy. I must try this out. I have limited myself to daphnia and mosquito larvae but it is time to get real. If I am able to get this going I am sure my corydoras will thank me. By the way, you had some pretty good looking arcuatus corys there :)
Very very helpful... You a legend, thank toy very much... I am using peat free from any fertilizers...I was feeding with plants and fruits and now gonna try your way too, let's see how it goes... Thank you!!!
I just ordered white worms on ebay and will use your method . Nothing speaks better than long term experience. I did culture micro worms and it turned out excellent but most of my fish won't eat them. I guess they are to small. Great straight forward video.thanks for sharing your method. I hope to find out it's the best!
Hey David, I have done my culture like yours for the past 7-8 months and my worms are no where near what yours are. I’m beginning to think they are not white worm. They look like starter cultures! The worms are tiny, and have blunt ends. They are the size of grain of rice. Any ideas? I guess I need to add, I keep in a wine fridge at 55 and they remind you of a maggot but really tiny.
That sounds like fly maggots. The little nasty flies with big dark wings. Do you have any flies in the boxes hatching? White worms are much longer and very skinny. I would poke around in your media and see if you have any white worms in there at all.
Hi Dave, no I haven’t noticed any, I got the culture when it was too warm out, so I figured if a few made it I would give a try. Do you have an email I can send you some pictures? I then just went with grindals cause of them being more heat tolerant. Honestly my grindal worms look more like the white worms just smaller than your white worms.
I might be wrong and/or this might be bad advice but, Can you maybe blurr such videos in the beginning and/or put a warning in the beginning please? Thank you
Hi David. I recently purchased a white worm culture and the starter culture media contains gnats or some sort of mites. Any advice on how to get rid of them or swap the worms over to new media without transferring the pests with them? Btw, thank you for taking the time to make these videos. You make venturing into new things alot easier
Mites and other unwanted guests in a white worm culture become a problem slowly due to the colder temp. Virtually impossible to eliminate. If it gets bad, collect a bunch of worms and put them in a water container. The mites and critters will float (not all of them). Pour them off and add more water. After a couple of times the worms in the water should be pretty clean of mites and bugs. Turkey baster them into at least 2 new starts. That should get you a couple of clean cultures to get going. Often you can scrape off the top of the culture and find that the mites and gnats are not in the middle layer even though lots of worms are. This can be a new culture also. Sometimes I just scoop out half of the media and put in new media. Then start feeding the worms on the new side. They will outrun the critters. I wish any of these tactics worked on grindal worms.
Hello David my name is Daniel. I recently purchased a white worm culture and had a couple question if you could email me or text me that would be amazing.
Thank you so much for this video. I actually just purchased worms from someone that got them from you, and how to culture them as well. I am excited to save myself money, and have nice heathly fish. I keep a ton of nano predators. I also keep ADF's this definitely get them breeding. Thank again.
I know this video goes back a ways but let me tell you Mr your method is by far the best I ever used. I had another standard way which wasn't that good. switch to your method and the very next day my worms were at the top and eating good. wow couldn't believe my eye. Thanks
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Hi dear ! again . any kind of yogurt we can use? And how is the temperature you keep ? looking for your respond , And how many days you give next food to them ? thanks
I did. Managed to keep them alive for almost a year. Never enough to feed my fish. Total waste of time. Same for the supposed full refrigerator worms. They live but dont reproduce enough to feed.
the media needs to be slightly damp. Not wet. If the mold is the cottony white stuff just lift it off or spray with a little water to tap it down. It will go away in a few days.
You have to start out with some white worms. I would suggest you raise small earthworms. Not night crawlers. Great food and easy to raise in huge numbers.
I don’t see holes or breathable covered sections in your tubs. ? But in your other video on treating culture for mite issues you did have a hole with sponge stuffed in. So to make it clear, after so long the actual soil will be useless to use is what your saying? I wasn’t aware that it should be maybe disposing of my peat moss mix after a while and staring a new one. Geezus man you have a load of worms there, I’m just at to that point in video. Lol Your keeping the containers in a warm spot correct> when you said an esky or what a cooler as you call it is that for keeping cooler? I’ve been told to keep cultures in a slightly warmer spot of on top the fridge or on aquarium light where warmth is ? What’s correct Cheers
Always some kind of air holes. If you feed on one end the worms will go there.replace the soil on the opposite side. Then do it the other way. Be good fora couple of months. Feed the old mediato the gardem
@@djrramsey i did try it last week..with the organic mix made from coconut coir.. I took out the old bread from the worms and place it to a new dirt...and today i check the bread were all eating up and all you see was whiteworms in the new culture that i start it with just the old feeding bread from the other culture...nice
If you don't see a opening with floss or something in it, then there are 1/32 holes drilled around the edges on the short sides for air flow. Otherwise the gases build up and kills the worms.
Mites have never been a problem for me with white worms kept in the mid 50Fs. They regularly wipe out my grindal worms. I would guess that you need to bake you media to kill any mites in the media. And try keeping it all a little dryer. Not so wet. Try a different food if you are feeding pet food.
@@djrramsey @David Ramsey You gave me a good idea. I put two of my whiteworm tubs in the refrigerator for 2 days, and the mites appear to be gone. At 24 hours, there were still a few alive but most were dead. At 48 hours, the mites I find under a scope are all dead. The worms are all peachy. They are the warmer temperature variant of the whiteworms, which is necessary for me because I live in Florida, so regular ones would be impossible without a wine refrigerator (which I've considered getting), but I still have to keep the cultures in my coolest darkest space in my house. So after 48 hours or so in the refrigerator, they actually seem happier than the worms at room temp. Maybe its because there are no miters irritating them anymore. Suffice to say I'll be treating all of my whiteworm tubs this way. Mites destroyed all of my grindals for the umpeenth time as well, so I don't have any to try this on . I will though. I suspect that the grindals will be less tolerant of the cold, but I'm going to try anyway. So thank you, you seem to have solved my whiteworm issues anyway. VERY grateful!
Can I buy some worms off of you? I bought some on Ebay and there were none in the container. I thought they were babies and they would grow, but nothing ever grow. Please let me know if you are willing to grow. thanks
Do not know where you are, but I can ship to the continental USA. Weather is the big factor. Do you have a wine cooler or some way to keep them in the 50Fs? Priority shipping with cold packs and insulation is expensive. I will put up a auction on Aquabid.
Do the lid have to have holes? I find flies inside my culture that has ventilation holes and that completely ruins the batch. I am hoping the lid can be completely sealed.
Has to be air exchange. I either put really tiny holes along the edge or one or two larger holes and then stuff some filter material or cotton into those holes.
Thank you. I try to pass along anything I can that might be useful. Been keeping fish for 60 years. I should have learned a few useful things. Still have my 'no can do' areas, but I am working on them.
Are these grindal worms? Because when I look up "White worms" Mostly shows me videos with grindal worms so I don't understand if it's the same thing I have or not?
white worms are much larger and require cool temperatures and different food than the grindal worms. Both are white, and without a size reference they would look the same. Very different though.
@@GrowAndEatThis ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AfZ-c1R8fBI.html Is this white worms I have? Since my betta could bearly swollow them. If so. What can I feed them more than what you suggested in your video for a start?
Hey David - another question. I've started a white worm culture! When I got yogurt, it was organic, but when I got home I realized it was vanilla flavored. So I went back and got a container of plain yogurt, but it's Greek yogurt. Are either or neither okay? Also, I'm using your method, but didn't have nutritional yeast on hand so I'm using a mix of quality dog food (that I powdered) and organic greens powder. I am using the Arnold's WW bread. Also: I've read some other stuff that says that like with redworms, NOT to use dairy while you've had such success with yogurt?? Your thoughts?
Neat but I wouldn't use miracle gro it has fertilizers in it. Not good. Yeah yeah I'm sure you might not have had any fish for bit that doesn't mean they aren't being sick or you're not shortening their lifespans.
Hello David.. i recently received a white worm culture but because of the delay in shipping. I think all worms are dead. If so , is there is a chance for any eggs in the culture medium to hatch if i keep the medium for few weeks??Thanks in advance.
Give it a try. I really do not know exactly how they reproduce. I thought they just split in half. Seems the smallest ones I ever see are about half the size of an adult. So who knows?
@@GrowAndEatThis Thanks a lot David. I will definitely give it a try. As i read they will produce eggs in cocoons. I will update here if i am successful with it..
David, that's a good vid for anyone coming into livefood culturing. Have you experimented adding spirulina or astaxanthin to gut-load the wormies? Thanks for sharing. Cheers! Ron
+Ronnie Lee I used spirulina years ago. Works well. Found the Brewers Yeast works even better and still has a lot of nutrient value. If I had the time I would probably try do some of both.
How do you know your culture is almost done and you have to start a knew one? Is there something in the soil that gets used up? Great video. If I can find some white worms, I'd like to give it a try. Thanks.
The surface of the soil will show a lot of wetness and get a 'shiny' look to it. All the worms will be moving up on the surface, getting out of the souring soil. With experience you will learn to tell as it is getting close. With that said, I missed 2 containers doing the mass exodus last night. What a huge mess.
Hêy Mr David. Maybe I am so worried but in the worst cases we accidentally swallow the eggs of the worms. we will have a big problem with it? Any chance that they will survive inside us? I am trying to make a grindal worm culture
Your first white worms have to come from someone. You are not going to find them in the garden or yard. Getting the first culture to start with can be the toughest part.
