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| WHITE WORM Big & Cycled Culture. Shipping Incl. |
| Item #1697581802 |
Current Auction Time: Sun May 5 18:23:37 2024
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Final: | $55.00 | First Bid | $55.00 | ||
| Time left | 00:00 | # of Bids | 1 (bid history) | |||
| Started | Oct 10 2023 - 05:30:02 PM | Location | Veneta OR 87982 United States | |||
| Ended | Oct 17 2023 - 05:30:02 PM Auction Closed |
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| Seller | Food (354/358)  |
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| High Bidder | Fullcircletropicals (56/56)  |
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| Shipping | Will Ship to United States Only Seller Pays Shipping, | |||||
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Our focus is neocaridina shrimp, aquarium grown plants, and live food cultures Russian red daphnia & white worms.
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CYCLED WHITE WORM CULTURE:
Enchytraeus Albidus / white worm: Room temperature strain:
Receive a USPS priority box(5-3/8 x 8-5/8 1-5/8") filled with cycled medium/culture. The strain is temperate and been kept at room temperature approaching two decades.
The medium is taken from a long established culture kept at room temperature, and will contain hundreds of worms & eggs. It's enough culture to fill two to three sandwich-container size cultures.
We offer a fully cycled culture as this is where folks often struggle, not realizing it takes a worm culture months to cycle. This culture will be productive the day it's delivered.
PAYMENT:
$55 total. Includes USPS priority shipping and guarantee.
Make immediate payment with Paypal using: ryanthehut@gmail.com
CULTURING WHITE WORMS:
I have cultured live foods for decades, in that time I have cultured most everything, with white worms being my favorite. They happen to be one of the most productive organisms on the planet, are productive year round, extraordinarily high in protein, can be gut-loaded with foods that are nutritious for your fish, and will survive in a fish tank for weeks.
Medium:
Most soil, peat, coco fiber, and commercial beddings work well. We use coco fiber but don't recommend it over other products.
Medium depth should be at least a couple inches.
White worms are nearly semi-aquatic and like their medium well saturated.
Food:
Feed like any other composting type worm. On the menu is bread, cereal, rice, potato, and fruits & vegetables. Keep it soft & wet or the worms struggle consuming it.
Temperature:
We get asked about this topic more than any other, so will explain ideal white worm temperatures in greater detail.
There is a lot of misleading information suggesting white worms require the chilly temperature of 62 degrees. Enchytraeus Albidus, on this continent ranges from Canada to Virginia, as well as inhabiting many other temperate parts of the world. The magic 62-degree number originated from one of the only scientific studies which used a Northern population- so does not represent all Enchytraeus Albidus locations. Also, those studies had nothing to do with its productivity. 62 degrees is a regurgitated figure from referencing each other over the years. In addition, some of these strains have been in the hobby for decades, such as this one, allowing them to further adapt to our home environments.
In fact, during the Summer of 2021, my area experienced the hottest Summer recorded(it sucked) and I harvested throughout. We also set an all-time high of 111 degrees that Summer, with our cultures approaching 90 degrees that day. Though not pleased we did not lose a single culture. Reality is, white worms are robust & productive in an impressive range of temperatures, not just 62 degrees.
To better understand the ideal temperature let's compare white worms to grindal worms. Both are temperate species, though each has a different ideal range they are fond of. If grindal worms were human you would find their homes a bit on the warm side / if white worms were human you would find their homes a bit on the cool side.
I keep my cultures in my garage where the concrete floor keeps the ambient temperature comfortable.
If you live in a hot environment there are a few solutions:
Method 1: Place a kitchen cooling plate under the culture to draw out heat, or place the culture on a cool slab of concrete for the same effect.
Method 2: Wrap aluminum foil around one of your homes cold water lines, setting your culture on that. There is no smell to a white worm culture, so keeping a culture under a sink shouldn�t freak-out your spouse.
Method 3: Because these cultures are wet they tend to be naturally cool. Adding a fan so it blows across the medium will add an air conditioning effect.
Culture Invaders / Mites:
This is another topic with a lot of confusing dialogue. Worm cultures are highly organic and it's near impossible to keep invaders out. Keep in mind most invaders aren�t likely predatory, even if they look scary. Most invaders prefer to consume recently deceased worms, waste, some other organism, the food you provide your worms, etc, etc, etc, over wrestling with a worm many times its size. So- don�t freak out if something new appears in your culture. My strain of white worms is as robust as they come, and capable of withstanding most any invader.
Of course it's a good practice to prevent an invader from overrunning your culture. There are a couple simple tasks to render invaders virtually impactless. Here are a few techniques:
Method 1: What we do here is mitigate any invader. When you tap on a culture the worms will retreat deep into the medium. Remove the top layer of medium and place it outside where the invaders will wander off.
Method 2: Because white worms are near semi-aquatic flooding their culture does not impact them. After being flooded the worms sink along with the medium, but the invaders float to the surface. Blow them off the surface and drain the culture.
Method 3: This sounds barbaric but also works great. Tap the culture to drive the worms deeper into the soil. Then, using a blow-torch with an airy flame, brush that over the surface. The invaders get toasted while the white worms are safe in the medium.
Reality is, most culture invaders are not likely interested in tangling with a worm many times its size, as there are many other sources of organic matter in the culture readily available.
Harvesting:
Place a plastic container lid over their food and the worms will crawl onto it. Dip that directly into your fish tanks.
GUARANTEE:
What if your culture does not show up alive? Send us a picture and we will ship a replacement at no cost.
INSTRUCTIONS AFTER RECEIVING PACKAGE:
You will receive enough culture to completely fill 2-3 sandwich sized containers, but we recommend you find something with higher sides. Poke a few small holes in the lid.
To prevent water saturated medium from leaching during shipping we reduce its moisture content. When in their new container add a cup of aged water. It will feel strange saturating a worms medium, but they are near semi-aquatic and enjoy it that way.
Add a wet piece of bread, about the size of your thumb-nail in the center. If ignored it is because the worms are consuming older food- they typically like the old stuff better. Over the next few days you will start to see the signature worm-pile you often see in pictures.
Place your new culture in a cool location.
THE CARBON DRAGON:
We are a family business. Ryan- the lifetime aquarist; Donna- the 2nd grade school teacher & Oregon 2010 Teacher of the Year; Sara- our adopted granddaughter; Luna- our weird beagle. We all contribute to be The Carbon Dragon in some way.
Visit our YouTube Channel for videos from the fishroom: The Carbon Dragon
Bid History:
Bidders Bid Time Bid Comments Fullcircletropicals (56/56) Oct 15 2023 - 11:46:58 AM $55.00 BUY IT NOW
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