Live Walter Worms (Panagrellus silusioides) Large 8 oz Active Culture

Description

You will receive:
8 Full oz. of Panagrellus silusioides- Walter Worms
This is an established culture.  You can start using the worms right away.
Why Walter Worms?
Walter Worms are one of the best foods to start out for your newly hatched fish fry like killifish, guppies, betas, gourami?s, tetra, barbs, danios, and many others.
They are more size appropriate (1/16 inch or less) for very small fry that are not able to eat baby brine shrimp or Micro worms.
Walter Worms stay in the water column longer then micro worms, which tend to sink. This makes Walter Worms best for middle feeding fry.
Baby brine shrimp are often too large for some newly hatched fish fry to eat in the first couple weeks of life.
Also, baby brine shrimp are harder to rear due to temperature, salinity, and growth restrains.
Walter Worms are perfect for rearing at room temperatures. Simply take your finger or a small clean paintbrush, and remove the worms from the sides of your container.
Removing Walter worms from the sides will reduce debris contamination.
Then, take your figure or small paintbrush, and rinse it in your fish tank.
The good thing about Walter Worms is that they can live in a tank of water for over 12 hours.
You don?t have to worry about Walter Worms being able to growing too big for your new fish fry.
Walter Worms are easy to culture at home for a never ending supple of newly hatched fry food.
How to Culture Walter Worms
There are several ways to culture Walter Worms. You just have to be able to meet their environmental needs.
The container we provided for you, which your Walter worms are in, is only a temporary home for shipping purposes.
To start, you will need a container or two to hold you worms in. Plastic transparent containers work best. Try a ice cream tub or deli container.
The container must have a tight fitting lid. The container they are not picky about because they don?t mind it dark.
Now, with the container lid you will need to puncture some small breathing holes in the lid (only lid.) Walter worms need oxygen to survive, but now we need to keep out other pests from our Walter worm culture.
It?s a fact Walter worms stink. But they are supposed to stink because they live and eat off of bacteria and yeast.
But, this smell causes other creatures to want into your culture like flies.
To keep the flies out, you need to either put a paper towel down under the lid when you close the container.
The towel will allow for air exchange, but keep pests out.
Now, you will need to prepare food for your Walter worms.
Crazy Stuff Worm Formula works great for Walter worms.  Simply mix it with aged water and keep it at a consistency of self butter.  Add a few grains of baker's yeast.
The yeast in the mixture eats the powdered grain, which helps to feed the Walter worms along with the natural bacteria present.
You can take and divide the culture that we have shipped to you. Simply, divide in half any 1oz. culture into two parts and add them to a new container with food.
A new culture will take anywhere from 3-7 days for harvesting.
Harvesting times also depend on how big your new container and food supply are.
The bigger the new container and food supply are the slower the begging harvest will be, but it will produce many more Walter worms.
You can control how fast your culture reproduces by controlling the temperature.
Lower temperatures allow the culture to last longer, but reproduction and harvesting are slower.
Higher temperature, and your culture will reproduce faster and harvesting numbers are higher.
Remember Walter worms are very small and you might just miss them if not able to see them up close.
You will know when your Walter worm culture is doing well by look for them crawling up the walls.
If you are ordering more than one product we can combine the order for you which will help to reduce postage costs.
Due to the unreliability of USPS, we will only ship Fedex 2 Day Express. If you live in a very warm climate, we will add an ice pack. To track for delivery is vital for Live Orders as expected arrival time is usually faster than Ebay's estimated arrival date.
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