Fishfood cultures

[Kat_Rigel]

It seems like live food is healthier/more nutritious than flake food. What live cultures do you guys keep and why? (Other than baby brine shrimp) Blackworms, vinegar eels, scuds, green water, daphnia, etc?
I have some nice 1gal growler glass bottles that I want to use... somehow. I'm thinking vinegar eels?

 

Edited September 6, 2020 by Kat_Rigel

[shkote]

Currently green water, vinegar eels and micro worms. Live cultures are just as addictive as getting new fish. Just as bad as MTS 🤭 

My live cultures are being used for Dwarf Neon Rainbow fry. 

[MickS77]

I keep Microworms and Vinegar Eels because they're easy and will last forever if you maintain them 

[Chandra]

2 hours ago, MickS77 said:

I keep Microworms and Vinegar Eels because they're easy and will last forever if you maintain them 

Where do you buy a good starter culture

[MickS77]

2 hours ago, Chandra said:

Where do you buy a good starter culture

Off of Aquabid, only $10 for both cultures 

[Daniel]

These are the live foods I use:

• Blackworms - 1/4 cup per day - I buy these from Eastern Aquatics 2 lbs per shipment - no work, but most expensive of all at $45 per pound
• Mosquito larva - about 3 tablespoons per day - I grow these in 10 five gallon buckets behind the garage
• Daphnia - about 1 tablespoon per day - Naturally occurring in a ditch in front of my house, I run the garden hose in the ditch to keep it from drying up if necessary.
• Whiteworms - about 1 tablespoon per day - purchased cultures on Aquabid and raise in Tupperware in a minifridge - much more maintenance than the above foods
• Baby brine shrimp - about 1 teaspoon per day - raise in 3 Imhoff cones - not much work, more than mosquito larva or Daphnia, but less than whiteworms

[gcalberto]

I have a 20 gallon container with a daphnia culture. It's great, because you can feed the smaller daphnia for the fry and pretty much any fish will eat daphnia. I even have plecos and otocinclus eating live daphnia 

[kammaroon]

I cultivate Walter Worms. They're bigger than banana worms but small than micro worms. They stay alive more than 12 hours in the tank, so I figured they might be less polluting than the other two types of worms.