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How to raise fish worms?

In the natural environment, fish worms mainly feed on bacteria, yeast, algae and organic debris (fragments of plants and animals). To cultivate fish worms artificially, you need to prepare the culture solution in advance. Take 4.5 kg of fertile soil (soil from the garden or vegetable garden) and 1 kg of straw (cut into 2 cm), pour them into a large tank, add 50 kg of water, stir them thoroughly, place them at a temperature of 15-18℃ for 3-4 days, and then filter them with gauze. The filtrate is called the stock solution. Take a certain amount of the stock solution and pour it into another tank, then add 2-4 times the pond water, so that the culture solution is prepared. At this time, you can put a small amount of fish worms into the culture solution, and keep the water temperature at 18-25℃. The fish worms grow very fast and will multiply in large quantities to feed goldfish or other fish. In the process of cultivating fish worms, add the stock solution at any time to ensure that the fish worms have enough feed.

First, prepare a container, it can be a small tank, pet box, PET bottle, etc. The best advice is to use a container with a larger area in contact with the air, because Daphnia will float to the surface of the water and make breathing-like movements, so if there are too many of them, some of them may not be able to compete for a position and die.

Light source: Generally, breeders are told that as long as there is light, it will be fine. But...what about at night? Won't they all sink to the bottom? That's right, they sink to the bottom, and most of them die the next day. Why? Because they are too lazy to breathe. Therefore, it is recommended that the light source should not be turned off at night. You can use a small light source (such as a 5w night light, etc.) to avoid this trouble. Of course, some people will say, is it necessary to raise it like this? The answer is not necessarily, but it is necessary to have a large number of them. We don't raise it just for fun, the key is the number of pots, and the number must be enough to feed the fish, right?

Feeding: Generally, people tell breeders to feed water with yeast powder, but if the amount is not well controlled, the water quality will deteriorate quickly, causing the water fleas to die quickly, and then they will have to buy more water fleas or ask for more from others. So, my method can prevent this. At the same time, you don’t have to worry too much about buying yeast powder, because sometimes yeast powder is hard to find, or it comes in a big bag and you can’t use it up. Because later I thought, if I feed them with yeast powder soaked in water, then can I feed them with anything that is soluble in water? The answer is yes, because round water fleas are filter-feeding creatures, so they generally survive by filtering nutrients in the water, because if the things we throw in are soluble in water, they can eat them. Because, Daxiong tried "sheep blood" to feed and found that the effect was good. Later, I heard that the reason for using yeast powder is that there are some amino acids in it, and water fleas can eat this. As for amino acids, I can't get them, so I have to use fresh milk, I believe it will also have a good effect.

Daily care: Actually, you don't need to care about them. Just give them light and some feeding. As for changing the water, after sucking out the water fleas each time, add the amount of water that was sucked out. If there are too many algae, it's also good to put some apple snails. As for the effect, it depends on you to try it yourself. As for the amount of feeding, don't feed too much at a time. 2~3cc at a time is enough. Don't think it's too little. This is enough and it won't cause the water quality to deteriorate at once. As for filtering water fleas, this is much easier than filtering brine shrimp. If you don't want to filter, you can use its phototropism to do it. Use light to attract them and then suck them out with a dropper, then wash them with plenty of clean water, and then you can feed them. If you want them to be more nutritious, feed them some nutrient solution before feeding, and feed them to the fish after one to two hours. Huhu, this is more nutritious.

Filtering Daphnia: Generally, we think that when there are enough Daphnia, we can feed them. Since Daphnia are phototropic, we can use this characteristic to attract them to the corners when filtering, and then use the air duct to suck them out. The Daphnia sucked out are mostly mixed with the dirty water of the original Daphnia tank. In order to avoid polluting the fish tank, we have to filter it. You can use a fine mesh net, or a "biological filter (300 mesh)" bought from a chemical material store to filter. After filtering, soak it in clean water, or add some ingredients (milk, vitamins, etc.) and then indirectly let the fish eat these things.