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RE: White worm culture
Tricia,
My guess is that you now have a culture contaminated with brown mites. They
will only get worse.
Scoop out the area in the culture where you introduced the worms to. Rinse
the worms under running water several times until you separate out the worms
from the substrate. You should only have the worms left in the bottom of
the bowl. Then re-introduce the worms back into a clean, new culture.
Start feeding the worms with very small amounts of food in the beginning.
Cover the worms with plastic or glass and keep a lid on the whole container.
I never introduce culture substrates or aquarium water from any source into
my fish room. Separate out the organisms or fish when introducing into your
environment.
Hope this helps.
mike
-----Original Message-----
From: Tish KB [mailto:tishykb at yahoo_com]
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 11:33 PM
To: killietalk at aka_org
Subject: RE: White worm culture
> went well over 70 degrees. I know that the mites
> seemed to like it warm. ;^)
>
Ok well my culture is here, right now i just have a
small box (about half a foot square) with an inch or
so of moist peat w/ some baking soda to reduce
acidity, and dumped the culture on top... It was
packaged in a stryofoam cup with newspaper on top,
taped over except for a little air hole. Upon knocking
the dirt or whatever substrate the worms were in into
my peat moss, i noticed a lot of little bugs in there.
They look like teeny beetles, about 1/16th of an inch
big and brown in color... What are these? should i
worry about them? What about my setup-- will it be OK
or should i add some type of soil to it? should i mix
the culture dirt into the peat or just let it on top?
I have the box top (hinge style) closed for now,
should i poke a few holes in the top? thanks guy for
all your help, happy halloween too :)
--Tricia
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