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Re: food for white worms
I agree.
Barry
>Hello Julian,
>
>That "Super Wormfood" sounds interesting!
>
>Do you happen to have a recipe handy? Some of the ingredients might not
>be readily available, but even a partial formula should be better than
>oatmeal or stale bread.
>
>Best,
>
>George
>
>
>J.P.Haffegee wrote:
>>
>> For cheapness I give my grindal worms dry oats or readybrek. Whiteworms
>> get the same or bread. I was raising manducca sexta (hawkmoth
>> caterpillars) at work, on a food (wheatgerm, sugar, casein,agar ,
>> cholesterol , vitamins and a whole host of other stuff in small
>> quantities), which would grow from dot sized egg to 4 inch caterpillar
>> in 2 weeks. I tried this food on whiteworms, and they grew incredibly
>> fast- faster than i've ever experienced before, with more big ones. this
>> food was seroius hassle to make and stupidly expensive- but I believe
>> that there must be a cheaper equivalent for these worms (at least wrt
>> growth, maybe worms fed on this medium would be too fatty). My earthworm
>> culture , which gets fed grass, leaves and a small amount of readybrek
>> produces more whiteworms than my fish could possibly eat- its a much
>> larger size though. There are similar high sugar recipes for drosophila
>> which give rise to larger fatter larvae aswell.
>>
>> Julian.
>>
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