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Dero/Microfex worms and daphnia (Free Ship)

Item #1304451486

Current Auction Time: Thu May 16 14:24:16 2024

		Final:	$22.00 (reserve price met)		First Bid	$22.00
		Time left	00:00		# of Bids	1 (bid history)
		Started	Apr 26 2011 - 02:38:07 PM		Location	Fox Point WI 53217 United States
		Ended	May 3 2011 - 02:38:06 PM Auction Closed
		Seller	Waltpark (140/141)
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		High Bidder	Honeyrobber (2/2)
		Payment	Money Orders/Cashiers Check, Personal Checks, PayPal
		Shipping	Will Ship to Continental United States Only See Item Description

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Description

This listing is for a quarter sized colony of dero/microfex worms and a supporting culture of Daphnia Magna. The worms are known as dero or microfex worms, and the name is used inter-changeably. Daphnia Magna are sometimes called water fleas, and are native to most parts of the US. I'm not really sure where Dero's originate.

Dero worms are a completely aquatic worm about the width of a human hair, and 1-2 cm long. They tend to live in clumped colonies surrounding a food source, and are omnivores/detrivores. They are a great fry food for most non-vegetarian fish. A pea size ball of worms can multiply to quarter size in about 3-4 weeks.

Daphnia Magna are filter feeders with adults are about the size of a sesame seed that give live birth to 6-8 nymphs about the size of GSL strain baby brine shrimp every 2 days, so they multiply super fast. Most non-vegetarian fish will also enjoy these guys.

These two cultures are meant to be raised in the same container, as they are symbiotic. The worms eat the solid food and cause an infusoria bloom from the waste. The Daphnia are filter feeders consuming that bloom/waste and multiplying while keeping the container clean for both of them. Daphnia raised with dero's tend to be pink instead of the green you see if raised on green water. I believe this is because they are eating more protein instead of algae, which should be more nutritious for the fish as well. It's kind of like a protein gut load.

Raising both of these cultures is really pretty easy, and I will send instructions with the culture. No heat, light, aeration, or gravel/substrate is needed. All you need is aged water, a 1 gallon container like a pickle jar or plastic shoebox, and a food source. I use algae wafers, but I've used old flake food, goldfish pellets, golden pearls, and the worms seem to eat it all.

Anyway, since these are completely aquatic, they can never drown, and you can't foul the water over feeding. That means you don't spend all day on feeding schedules and fry can eat all the time, whenever they want, which also means full bellies and max growth rates. They're also super convenient for going away on a weekend, since you just figure out how much they need over a weekend, drop the wad in and go without worrying about them not getting fed.

The colony lives in something like a small pompom, with one end of the worm sticking out and waving around. Small fry will graze on the colony breaking mouth size pieces off. Larger fry will just take mouthfuls. The fry will basically just graze off the colony until it is completely consumed.

If your fry tank is bare bottom, that's really the best case since the worms will retreat into gravel if they can. If you use gravel, you can put a plate on the gravel and drop the ball onto the plate. The worms will tend to clump for protection, and should mostly stay on the plate if fry are picking at them. Even though they can actually swim, they usually don't.

Also, this listing includes 2-3 day shipping to the continental US, since export is probably a problem. They usually travel well, with freezing solid and hot mailboxes being the only real problems I've seen in the past. At this time of year, neither of those should be a problem. I ship mondays and tuesdays to try to make sure they don't get stuck in the post over the weekend. Also, I only ship after payment clears.

The buy it now and the starting price are the same, because I don't think there's a need to bid higher since I usually have plenty of these, so please "buy it now" instead of trying to bid.

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Bid History:

Bidders		Bid Time		Bid		Comments
Honeyrobber (2/2)		Apr 27 2011 - 06:22:23 PM		$22.00

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