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| WHITE WORMS. Ryan's warm temperature strain. |
| Item #1561675885 |
Current Auction Time: Sat May 18 01:24:46 2024
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Final: | $20.00 | First Bid | $20.00 | ||
| Time left | 00:00 | # of Bids | 1 (bid history) | |||
| Started | Jun 13 2019 - 05:51:25 PM | Location | Veneta OR 87982 United States | |||
| Ended | Jun 27 2019 - 05:51:25 PM Auction Closed |
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| Seller | Food (356/360)  |
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| High Bidder | Mentner (13/13)  |
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| 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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PAYMENT:
$20(culture) + $8(USPS priority shipping) = $28
Make payment with Paypal at: ryanthehut@gmail.com
Please don't request an invoice unless necessary.
CULTURE:
A USPS flat rate box(5-3/8 x 8-5/8 1-5/8") filled with established culture/medium and a spoonful of worms - large enough to make several sandwich contain sized cultures. There will be 100+ worms and an unknown number of egg sacs. This is a temperate strain I have maintained for well over a decade in my garage, and call it 'Ryan's strain' to differentiate it with other strains in the hobby.
FYI: Image is a culture similar to the one I take your culture from. I harvest the soil from the edges, and add a spoonful of worms to top it off.
CULTURE BASICS:
Medium:
I find most bagged soil, peat, and cocofiber works well. I use cocofiber. Avoid products where fertilzer or sand is added. These products are all very inexpensive so try several and see which one works best.
They like their medium on the wetter side. It may seem odd adding so much water to something that lives in soil, but in many aspects WW are semi-aquatic and love wettness.
Food:
My worms are fed much like a composting worm. The like bread, cereal, rice, potato, and soft vegetables. I don't include any meat products as that attracts house flies. They like wet and soft/softened foods.
Temperature:
There is a lot of innacurate information suggesting white worms be kept at temperatures in the lower 60's. This species can be found at many locations around the globe - including large portions of the United States, includes other unidentified species in what is commonly referred to as 'white worm', and many strains have been in the hobby for decades. Not all white worm strains are the same. My outside temperatures reach over 100 degrees, with culture temperatures reaching the mid 80's, and I harvest year round without issue. My days may get hot but it's cool enough at night for the worms to do their thing. Yes, there are strains that like very fridgid temperatures, but not all WW strains are the same.
A cool place in your home is all that is needed for this strain. I live in a Western state and keep mine in the garage near the concrete floor. If you don't have that cool location a fan or frozen water bottle during the hottest days will suffice. A WW culture is very wet and helps cool itself.
Consider this: I can culture WW in my garage year round without any special treatment, but can't do the same for many other worms, such as grindal worms. Temperature made simple: For best results obtain a strain that is kept at a temperature range you will be keeping them at.
Culture Invaders / Mites:
This is an overdiscussed issue. Every organism has its pathogens & parasites, but because it's something easily visible in a WW culture, it gets discussed disaporportanitely. There are very few things that want to actually bite your living worms when there are hundreds available that die naturally every day. Most invaders are more interested in worm wastes - making them useful in important aspects. This is just an over discussed issue by people needing to add something to the conversation.
Many people wrap their cultures in cloth to keep out invaders. However, most invaders start out microscopic in size, so it's nearly impossible to keep invaders out for any period of time. If you do have an invader making an impact in your culture you can usually mitigate it; doing something that reduces it's population. For example, taping the container drives the worms into the medium, allowing you to easily remove the top layer of medium, placing that on a plate, and the 'mites' will walk out of it. Another mitigation tip is to flood the culture for a day or two, which drowns the invaders but doesn't bother the worms.
I've never, in the decade plus I have kept this particular strain, had an invader that significantly impacted a culture.
Harvesting:
I culture a number of different organisms and over half the food I feed to my fish are white worms. They are equally productive to daphnia but live in far greater densities.
Harvesting is easy. Place a plastic deli lid over their food and the worms will crawl onto it, where it can be removed and dipped into an aquarium.
GUARANTEE:
If DOA I will send a replacement at no cost. Please don't file any claim as that usually adds additional steps for us both. Just let me know and I will send another without a guilt trip.
FYI: During shipping, distance isn't a risk factor, neither is temperature, what will kill the culture is sunlight. It's critical the box not be left in your mailbox or sitting at your door. Have somebody home that is prepared to greet your mail carrier. I will send a tracking number so you know when to expect it.
INSTRUCTIONS AFTER RECEIVING PACKAGE:
White worms are long and can be damaged if the medium is overhandled. Don't stir or rummage through the medium after you receive it.
Add the medium into a couple sandwich or one shoe box sized container(s). Medium depth from 1/4" to 1" is good. Poke a couple small holes in the lid with a tac.
Add a few wet cheerios to the center and the worms will gather at it over several days.
I remove moisture from the medium prior to shipping so the medium doesn't leech water into box. When in their new container add water to a point it's soggy.
Place your new culture in a cool location. They emit no odor so then can be kept just about anywhere without being a disturbance.
I don't culture using sterile techniques. It's common for fruit/fungus flies to hatch from the culture. They don't bother the worms and will hatch out.
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Bid History:
Bidders Bid Time Bid Comments Mentner (13/13) Jun 14 2019 - 04:55:14 PM $20.00 BUY IT NOW
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