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chix2k3 Fingerling Posts: 17 Kudos: 15 Votes: 0 Registered: 01-Oct-2005   | anyone knows how to cultivate blood worm??  |
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longhairedgit    Fish Guru Lord of the Beasts Posts: 2502 Kudos: 1778 Votes: 29 Registered: 21-Aug-2005  | http://members.optushome.com.au/chelmon/Bloodworm.htm Theres a bit of info on bloodworm,basically it looks like captive breeding is very tricky as you have to keep chronomid midges alive and contained, in presumably some sort of large paludaria, the size of which would be prohibitive for most people. Those who live where chronomid midges occur naturally might be able to set up an outdoor pond and collect the larvae seasonally.I know someone who released live bloodworm into pond which then bred for two seasons surviving the unusually warm winters in that time in the uk, but this is highly unusual and not really ecologically sound. |
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superlion Mega Fish Posts: 1246 Kudos: 673 Votes: 339 Registered: 27-Sep-2003   | Out of two macroinvertebrate seining sessions with school, I've seen one bloodworm. I wouldn't say they're worth the effort to try to catch just bloodworms! As for raising them, since they're the larvae of midges, a flying insect, rather than completely aquatic worms, they're not really easy to cultivate like tubifex... ><> |
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| chix2k3 Fingerling Posts: 17 Kudos: 15 Votes: 0 Registered: 01-Oct-2005 | Thanks for the info. I have a turtle pond by the way, it's very dirty, has lots of blood worms. But i'm afraid it might have diseases. For now, i've been buying frozen blood worms. Another question, "which is best, frozen or freeze dried?"  |
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Fallout      Moderator Communications Specialist Posts: 6416 Kudos: 4053 Votes: 742 Registered: 29-Jul-2000 | Bloodworms, or mosquito larvae? they look very similar. |
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Oscar_Jewel Fingerling Posts: 45 Kudos: 28 Votes: 0 Registered: 24-Jul-2005  | I'm not sure that you can get disease free bloodworms evan from a store can you? |
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| longhairedgit Fish Guru Lord of the Beasts Posts: 2502 Kudos: 1778 Votes: 29 Registered: 21-Aug-2005 | gamma irradiated frozen bloodworms should be disease free. You take a risk with any other type. Dried will lose a lot of vitamins and other nutrients, and straight frozen with no irradiation may just put some persistant diseases effectively in stasis until they thaw out, although freezing does kill most diseases. |
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