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Fishguy's 3 Cultures PLUS 7ml Pipettes - FREE S/H

Item #1309276204

Current Auction Time: Fri May 17 12:13:13 2024

		Final:	$8.00		First Bid	$8.00
		Time left	00:00		# of Bids	1 (bid history)
		Started	Jun 27 2011 - 10:50:04 AM		Location	Benton KY 42025 United States
		Ended	Jun 28 2011 - 10:50:04 AM Auction Closed
		Seller	Fishguy_1955 (5843/5874)
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		High Bidder	Plakathunter (1/1)
		Payment	Money Orders/Cashiers Check, Personal Checks, See Item Description, PayPal
		Shipping	Will Ship to United States Only Seller Pays Shipping, See Item Description

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Description

Walter Worm, Banana Worm And Micro Worm Starter Cultures 

PLUS (10) 7ml Graduated Pipettes 

Free First Class Mail Shipping - This Item Only Available In US / PR

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This auction includes three large one ounce plus starter cultures of nematode worms widely cultured and used for decades as a first food for fry too small to accept baby brine shrimp or decapsulated brine shrimp eggs and as a supplement to these foods.

The walter worm is much smaller (about half the size ) than its cousin the microworm Panagrellus redivivus, and serves as a perfect first food for the very smallest of fry.  Banana worms are a relatively new worm similar to the walter worms and apparently more prolific.  After a few days of walter or banana worms, fry are able to progress to microworms and then 'over the hump' to newly hatched brine shrimp or even better decapsulated brine shrimp eggs.  Even livebearers and newly hatched larger fry like cichlids will benefit immensely from a few days up to a couple of weeks of walter/banana and micro worms. Pictured below are female and male P. redivivus, respectively.

Walter worms were first isolated and cultured by Helmut Walter of Germany in 2002, and were introduced to California aquarists when he visited there that same year.

All three of these nematode worms thrive in a simple culture medium of oatmeal enriched with a small sprinkle of active baker's yeast - supplied with your starters.

Room temperature up to about 85^o F is acceptable, and the worms throw 60 or so young from the their 4th day on. There will ALWAYS be enough worms on hand for all the fry you can produce. Within literally days of starting your cultures with our large starter portions you will see the surface of your cultures shimmering with millions of worms.  

Walter worms can stay alive in the tank for 24 hours or more and float in the water column longer than their larger cousins which gives your fry longer to find them. (As shown here when some aquarists suspended equal amounts in two cylinders and timed their settling)

All I can find out about the banana worms at this point is that they are related nematodes, seem to be about the same size or slightly larger than the walter worms, and appear to be even more prolific than the walter worms - if that is possible! They simply reproduce at a phenomenal rate. I would love to hear from anyone who can come up with more on their origin, but in the meantime they are a super source of live food for the smallest fry up to about 1/4".

The micro worm cultures offered here are an extremely prolific and fast growing strain.  They also are very simply cultured with oatmeal and a pinch of yeast. The photos below were taken quite awhile back on the 15th of July of cultures that were started on the 7th from only a teaspoon of starter. The lid of the culture container literally has thick strands of micro worms woven on its underside! This is one incredibly prolific and fast strain that I have kept hardy by outcrossing with unrelated strains on a regular basis.

You also receive (10) of our best selling 7ml pipettes.

These heavy duty - and most importantly wide barreled - six inch long pipettes are graduated in 1/2 ml increments up the 3ml stem and hold a total of 7ml.  They have multiple uses in any fish room or breeding setup. They will come in handy for dispensing medications, transferring fry and eggs (just snip the tip wider with a pair of scissors), delivering small foods such as live BBS right to the fry that need them without spreading them all over the tank, and a whole host of other applications. 

You will also get complete and very detailed culturing instructions and my own guidelines for fry rearing and feeding, sent in an email at the time of your auction win/purchase so you'll have adequate time to prepare for the arrival of your cultures.

Your purchase price includes free First Class Mail shipping anywhere in the 50 United States and Puerto Rico.  Auction winners will get the PayPal and snail mail payment addresses on the close of the auction. 

These cultures are only offered for buyers in the US and PR.

We prefer PayPal for payment, but personal checks and US postal money orders are OK as well.

Thanks For Looking And Take Care!  

Paul P

 

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Bid History:

Bidders		Bid Time		Bid		Comments
Plakathunter (1/1)		Jun 27 2011 - 03:53:24 PM		$8.00

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