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Re: Yeast and Microworms



>I'm always amazed at the number of people who culture microworms, yet don't
>know how it works.  The worms don't eat the bread/cornmeal/baby
>cereal/whatever that you build the culture in.  The bread feeds yeast.  The
>yeast then feeds the microworms.  The yeast is introduced into the culture
at
>the same time as the micoworms.  I don't know, but I suspect that the
culture
>may be crashing due to alcohol.  But then on the other hand, the culture
isn't
>run anaerobically, so perhaps it is other metabolic wastes that kill the
thing
>off.
>
>Bob Dixon


Yeah, but I would think the microworms are probably more susceptible to the
alcohol level than the yeast... right?

Alysoun McLaughlin
Wheaton, Maryland