Re: [Killietalk] Killietalk Digest, Vol 46, Issue 62

[Harry Faustmann <hwfaustmann at optonline_net>]

Hi Ken. The easiest way that I have found to harvest bloodworms is to 
collect from the source using a fish net, not to fine, and place contents 
into clean water in a wide mouthed glass gallon jar.Place a plastic or 
similar coffee can lid over the opening.This cuts down on surface oxygen.The 
jar of water should be filled right to the top. Wait a few minutes until all 
debris settles to the bottom.This can be easily seen when using a glass 
jar.The bloodworms will leave the bottom debri and travel to the top of the 
jar seeking more oxygen. Quickly remove the plastic lid and dip a small net 
into the wide mouth jar fast enough to net hundreds of bloodworms before the 
remainder dive for the bottom. Replace lid, wait a few minutes, and repeat 
proceedures until you have them all, or enough for your needs.Works every 
time. I used to collect bloodworms from the top of my swimming pool cover, 
until my kids pleaded for me to open the pool for swimming. Now I harvest 
from a large vat. Good luck, Harry W. Faustmann.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken" <ken_combs at sbcglobal.net>
To: <apistomaster at excite_com>; "'killifish discussion list'" 
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Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 10:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Killietalk] Killietalk Digest, Vol 46, Issue 62


> How in the heck do you harvest bloodworms? I always see them in outdoor
> daphnia cultures, along with some other type of "tunnel building" 
> worm...but
> separating them from those detritus cocoons has miffed me...
>
> ...and cherry reds w/killies? Tried that and they ended up as food...or 
> are
> you talking fry under 1"?
>
> KC
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Re: [Killietalk] Killietalk Digest, Vol 46, Issue 62
>
> I really liked your suggestion, Dr Goldstein, about recycling the
> brineshrimp hatching water into outdoor containers. I am already growing
> mosquito and bloodworm larvae plus I like using marine salt for the 
> superior
> hatches I get with it. That extra production out of it before I pour it 
> into
> the patches of puncture weed would make a fine bonus.. I had the weeds
> treated professionally but they are an eternal enemy of barefeet and bike
> tires here and it probably takes megatonnage to really crimp their
> growth...or turn them into Triffids.. It is interesting to learn that red
> cherry shrimp and killies may be cultured together. I have been raising
> Corydoras hastatus, Corydoras habrosus and Ancistrus sp. 3 with them in 
> the
> same style of set up used for natural production methods often used for 
> egg
> hanging killies. You may find it interesting to know that certain
> self-appointed shrimp forum experts tell me this is not possible. 
> Obviously
> experience says otherwise.Larry Waybright
>
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