Re: [Killietalk] Tubifex

[Wright Huntley <whuntley at verizon_net>]

Lee,

LeeH920226 at aol_com wrote:

> I have contacted the distributor of tubifex in our area who was the source we 
> got them from before the LFS closed. He has agreed to resume delivery to that 
> business, which is now not a LFS, but will not deliver to anyone else. This 
> is because every other dealer he has delivered them to had problems keeping 
> them alive (I think that may be an exaggeration). I then contacted the LFS and he 
> agreed to this arrangement. We may be back in business. 

Good news!

How about shipping to the west? Or does he have an LA counterpart?

I can appreciate his problem with survival at some stores. Sometimes I 
feel the LFS business is just a magnet for morons! Some of the ways they 
keep blackworms have to be seen to be believed, and you cannot tell them 
anything.

> I have added photos 
> to members gallery of a paint strainer and a coffee filter that I had available 
> for comparison with the worm keepers. I don't think the paint strainer would 
> retain either worm. I think the coffee filter would work, except it is in the 
> shape of a cone instead of flat.

Flat is essential, because the aim is to give the worms a shallow 
habitat near the surface of a large cold body of water. There are coffee 
filters with flat screens, but the ones I have for camping are too 
small. It would take 8 or 10 of them to hold a pound of worms. [They are 
designed to sit in a camp cup.] Check the "Dollar" stores or "Big Lots" 
for larger flat-bottom ones, if not at your local K-Mart or Wally World.

Since I have ample "free" water, I would build a tiered gutter-trough 
system that would keep them purged and alive in almost any weather we 
have here. It comes out of the tap at 45F this time of year and probably 
not over 55 or 60 in summer. The creek behind my fence is probably 
similar, but a bit colder, right now. Get me a shipping source, come 
spring, and I'll start to build it. Film at 11 (aka The Member's Gallery).

Wright

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