RE: White worm culture

[Tish KB <tishykb at yahoo_com>]

OK So i definately have flies, and now i have some
inside my dorm room. grrrrrrrrrr. i'll try the moth
balls ASAP. 



--- "Stoecker,Michael,FRANKLIN PARK,NC&C"
<michael.stoecker at us_nestle.com> wrote:
> Barry,
> I have also tried mothballs.  Several in a sweater
> box sized container of
> white worms.  No impact at all on the mites.  I
> wasn't bothered by any flies
> at the time so I can't say if they are effective
> against them.
> Wait a minute here!  Let's see, I didn't have flies.
>  I used mothballs.  No
> flies ever invaded the culture.  Therefore, the
> mothballs must have been the
> only thing effective against the flies!  Makes sense
> to me.
> Thanks,
> mike
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barry Cooper [mailto:bjc3 at cornell_edu]
> Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 1:29 PM
> To: killietalk at aka_org
> Subject: Re: White worm culture
> 
> 
> At 11:10 AM 11/1/2002 -0800, you wrote:
> 
> 
> >Tish KB wrote:
> >
> >regarding brown mites:
> 
> 
> You may want to try placing a mothball in the
> culture. Just stick in one 
> corner of the container. I have friends in the UK
> who swear that this will 
> control mites. I can tell you that I have used
> mothballs to try to control 
> little flies that get in my grindal worm cultures. 
> The mothballs do not 
> harm the grindal worms, so I doubt that they would
> harm the white worms.
> 
> I have seen some comments about white worms doing
> well at high 
> temperatures, like in the 70s and 80s. To my
> knowledge that goes against 
> all conventional wisdom. White worms do best in the
> mid-50s to low 60s, and 
> cultures will at best hang on in the 70s. That has
> been consistent with my 
> experience.
> 
> Grindal worms, in contrast, do well in the mid- to
> high 70s. I wonder if 
> there has been some confusion in the identity of the
> worms being discussed. 
> White worms are considerably bigger than grindal
> worms. On the other hand, 
> I find grindal worms easier to culture under my
> conditions and I can 
> produce enough to feed my whole fishroom regularly.
> They are also a great 
> size for fish larger than about 15 mm, and they're
> useful for even full 
> grown nothos.
> 
> I don't do white worms any more as I have ready
> access to black worms.
> 
> Barry
> 
> 
> Barry J. Cooper, Prof. Emeritus, Dept. Biomedical
> Sciences, Cornell
> University
> Adjunct faculty, College of Veterinary Medicine,
> Oregon State University
> Home address: 27505 Riggs Hill Rd., Sweet Home, OR
> 97386 (bjc3 at cornell_edu)
> 
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