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3 starter cultures plus Pink Ramshorn snails

Item #1284410402

Current Auction Time: Wed May 22 12:37:51 2024

		Final:	$12.00 (reserve price met)		First Bid	$12.00
		Time left	00:00		# of Bids	1 (bid history)
		Started	Sep 6 2010 - 03:40:02 PM		Location	tollhouse CA 93667 United States
		Ended	Sep 13 2010 - 03:40:02 PM Auction Closed
		Seller	Dre17am (24/26)
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		High Bidder	Fishfest10 (35/35)
		Payment	See Item Description, PayPal
		Shipping	Will Ship to United States Only Buyer Pays Fixed Amount, See Item Description

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Description

Microworms, Walterworms, and Vinegar eels starter cultures and 12 pink ramshell snails

Get a starter culture of each of 3 great fry foods and 12 pink ramshell snails. Vinegar eels are the smallest and will ensure your smallest fry have food and they live longer in the water swimming around, providing food in between feedings. Walterworms are next in size and Microworms are the largest. Snails help clean up any dead worms or uneaten powder food, and these are a pretty pink (albino). Your fry will be off to a great start with these cultures.

You will get a cotton ball or coffee filter infused with vinegar eels and a � fluid ounce each of microworms and walter worms. You will also receive 10+ small and medium sized pink ramshorn snails. These will ship USPS in an small box for $6. The shipping cost will be added to the price of the auction.. Please pay me with paypal to aamcmeen@yahoo.com .

I also sell individual starters and ready to use cultures If your interested and I don't have an auction currently posted, drop me an email and I will usually be able to post an auction for you. If you order more then one of my auctions let me know so that I can drop a few dollars from shipping.

Snails

Snails will live and multiply anywhere your fish live. If you have soft water you can add eggshells or sea shells to boost the calcium in the water to help them produce strong shells.

Microworm and Walterworm culturing directions

Walterworms and microworms are easy and cheap to culture just cook some oatmeal or any other plain grain cereal, let cool, add a pinch of yeast, mix and then add a small amount of an older culture on top. Use cotton or coffee filter to cover air holes in the culture container to keep flies out. The yeast feed on the cereal and the walterworms/microworms feed on the yeast. In a week or two the culture will be thriving and climbing up the side of the culture container. They are easily collected by scraping them off with a knife, finger, or cotton swab and dipped into a small cup of water. Use a dropper to feed them to your fry.

Tips

Walterworms and microworms will get off to a faster start if you use processed grains (simpler carps) like baby food cereal or instant oatmeal, but your culture will go bad much faster. Whole grains like old fashioned oatmeal will take longer to start but last longer and may be more nutritious.

Vinegar eels

Vinegar eels are a tiny nematode that is usually grown in apple cider vinegar and can be fed to the smallest fry. Feeding vinegar eels in addition to microworms, walterworms, or banana worms will ensure that even your tiniest fry have food available to them from the start. Vinegar eels also make a great backup in the event that you need to wait for a new culture to arrive or start producing.

Culturing Vinegar eels

Vinegar eels are easily cultured by mixing apple cider vinegar with water at a rate of 1-3 parts vinegar with 1 part apple juice or water (50-75% vinegar). If your tap water is chlorinated it may be best to let it sit overnight before using, use distilled water, or just stick with unsweetened apple juice. If your tap water is hard use a higher percentage of vinegar. It may also be best to sterilize the water by boiling it and letting it cool. Most culturing recipes also recommend adding a slice of apple to the mixture. Vinegar eels supposedly feed off of the yeast and/or bacteria in the vinegar which is already present in the starter culture and the slices of apples. There should be some airflow into the container, but too much will cause the liquid to evaporate too quickly. Air-holes should be covered with coffee filters to keep flies out. Once you've prepared the culture you can ignore it for weeks or even months without care except to check that it hasn't completely evaporated. For best results add fresh medium once a month.

Tips

Vinegar eels tend to swim around at the top of the culture suggesting that they need oxygen. Some people have reported that wide shallow containers with more surface area for the culture produce faster then narrow deep containers. However, aerating the culture causes the culture to produce poorly. Higher percentages of vinegar also tend to produce better.

It's a good idea to keep two cultures in case one crashes, falls on the ground and spills or starts producing poorly and needs to be restarted. Vinegar eels are so easy to keep that keeping two cultures usually isn't a problem.

Collecting vinegar eels

Collecting is more difficult with vinegar eels, and there are several methods. One method is to pour your culture into a vessel with a long narrow neck, up to within the neck, stuff the neck with cotton so that there is no air between it and the culture, gently pour fresh water on top of the cotton (be careful the cotton doesn't fall into the beaker) and let sit. the vinegar eels will swim to the surface into the fresh water, which can be siphoned off and fed directly to your fish.

Another method is to take 1/3 of the culture and pour through a coffee filter, but you will get mostly adult vinegar eels.

A third method is to scratch the glass sides of your culture container at about the general water line. In their effort to reach oxygen at the surface vinegar eels will clump together in tight knots at the scratched places. Temporarily covering the container will induce more eels to swim at the surface which may improve collection, but may also slow down production.

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Bid History:

Bidders		Bid Time		Bid		Comments
Fishfest10 (35/35)		Sep 13 2010 - 09:20:10 AM		$12.00

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