ScareCrow
Member
Hi all,
As the weather gets colder here in the UK I've been trying to find some live cultures that are easy to keeping going indoors. I currently culture grindal worms and I've cultured banana worms and white worms in the past. I had problems with white worms crashing in the summer, which I think was due to temperature. Banana worms are too small for the fish I have now.
Today I stumbled across a video about culturing flour beetles Tribolium Confusum. They appear to be the easiest live food to culture I've found but I can't find much information about their nutrient content (other than journals relating to feeding them, rather than using them as food). They appear to be quite popular among reptile keepers. Has anyone cultured these beetles and do you think it's worth it as an additional food source for fish?
Thanks for your time
As the weather gets colder here in the UK I've been trying to find some live cultures that are easy to keeping going indoors. I currently culture grindal worms and I've cultured banana worms and white worms in the past. I had problems with white worms crashing in the summer, which I think was due to temperature. Banana worms are too small for the fish I have now.
Today I stumbled across a video about culturing flour beetles Tribolium Confusum. They appear to be the easiest live food to culture I've found but I can't find much information about their nutrient content (other than journals relating to feeding them, rather than using them as food). They appear to be quite popular among reptile keepers. Has anyone cultured these beetles and do you think it's worth it as an additional food source for fish?
Thanks for your time