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____________________________Confused Flour Beetles

Item #1467839403

Current Auction Time: Fri May 10 09:20:33 2024

		Final:	$4.00		First Bid	$4.00
		Time left	00:00		# of Bids	1 (bid history)
		Started	Jun 22 2016 - 04:10:04 PM		Location	Paducah KY 42002 United States
		Ended	Jul 6 2016 - 04:10:03 PM Auction Closed
		Seller	Fishguy_1955 (5839/5870)
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		High Bidder	Aefox92 (27/27)
		Payment	Money Orders/Cashiers Check, See Item Description, PayPal
		Shipping	Will Ship to United States Only Buyer Pays Fixed Amount, See Item Description

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Description

Confused Flour Beetle Starter Culture

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These beetles (Tribolium confusum) are among the easiest of all live foods to culture. They get their name not from any confusion on their part, but because they are easily confused with their cousins the Red Flour Beetle. It is not the beetles themselves that are fed to most fish, but their larvae and pupae that dwell under the surface of the flour. Their complete life cycle is four to five weeks, with a female laying about 400 eggs in her lifetime, most of them when she is newly emerged. I keep three shoe boxes going all the time and use these larvae as a highly nutritious treat for most of my fish.

This food is for the aquarist with enough patience to set up the cultures and wait awhile before being able to harvest. Anyone who is selling you a few ounces of this as 'Ready To Feed' is pulling your string unless they mean ready to feed one time! If you have the patience though they are a fine and easy addition to your live food pantry. Here is how you culture them:

Put one to two inches of whole wheat or white flour into a plastic shoe box. Whole wheat seems to work a little better but either will do. Vent the top of the box with a lot of small holes, or my technique which is to cut a one or two inch square in the lid and cover it with a square of any thin cloth or even paper toweling secured on the edges with clear tape.

Add your starter which contains adults, larvae and pupae. No water! Put the cover on and jot the date down on it then put your culture on a shelf someplace at room temperature. Forget about it for five weeks.

After five weeks, scoop a half cup of your now fully populated culture including adults and start a second culture.

You may now periodically feed from your first culture using a sifter to separate adults, larger larvae and pupae from eggs and new larvae that will fall through. Almost all your fish will enjoy the larvae and pupae, and some large cichlids will take the adults. If your culture gets overpopulated with adults you can periodically discard them when sifting.

You will receive a large two full ounce starter as pictured above, and as with all my products, unlimited email support to the extent of what I've learned in 50 years of pursuing this wonderful hobby!

This auction ships only to the US and Puerto Rico, and I accept either PayPal or USPS Postal Money Orders available at any post office.  I almost always ship next day and rarely second day after payment is received.  First Class Mail shipping with delivery confirmation is an affordable $2.50. 

My shipping and record keeping for online payments are based on PayPal invoicing so please wait for my invoice after purchasing this item to make payment.

Thanks for your interest and best of luck with your fish!

 

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Bid History:

Bidders		Bid Time		Bid		Comments
Aefox92 (27/27)		Jun 26 2016 - 05:13:43 PM		$4.00		BUY IT NOW

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