Re: [Killietalk] walter worms

[Wright Huntley <whuntley at verizon_net>]

Bruce,

fishgen <fishgen at vt_edu> wrote:

> Can someone please point me to a description of these mysterious creatures, 
> appropriate
> articles, etc.  Do we have any idea how many people are actually using the 
> worms for their fish hobby?
>
> Bruce J. Turner
> Biology, Va Tech

They weren't enough different from regular microworms to get a lot of 
write up. Herr Walter observed that they seemed to stay alive much 
longer, once in the water, than other microworms he has grown. I believe 
he had selected a strain that did just that and they may have been a tad 
smaller than some of our cultures that we had at the time, hence his 
name for them of "mini-mikro-worms."

I haven't heard of any serious further study of them, but out here in 
the boonies I don't hear everything. :-)

Wright

PS. I didn't much care for the non-English mini-mikro name, so I'm 
probably the guilty party who started (like in "Grindal") calling them 
Walter Worms after the one who had first cultivated and spread them to 
the hobby, Helmut Walter. [We propagated and sent a lot out from that 
"black-hole" of killifish stuff, BAKA. :-) No idea how many are still in 
use, tho.]

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