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RE: vinegar eels, surface scum
Paul,
Maybe the apple juice fermented to ethanol and whacked the culture.
Just try it with 3/4's vinegar, water and a very small slice of apple. Take
a eyedropper full of the remaining eels and use that as your inoculant for
the new culture.
mike
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Cezanne [mailto:oblique at alum_mit.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 11:32 AM
To: killietalk at aka_org
Subject: vinegar eels, surface scum
I just got my very first vinegar eel culture about 10 days ago. It is in a
2 qt jar, not filled to the top so it has max surface area. The medium is
1/2 apple cider vinegar, 1/2 dechlorinated water, and about 4 to 6 ounces of
organic apple juice. (one of the web sites I visited said that using juice
was just as good as as apple pieces but left much less debris in the
bottle.)
I just checked it everyday for the first 5 days and the little eels seemed
fine. That grew tiring so I stopped checking. I looked again today and I
see a surface scum on the liquid but what's worse, I far fewer eels.
What went wrong? What can I do to save this?
Thanks!
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