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Old 01-17-2012, 06:35 PM
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Hmmm... where would one buy a live white worm culture? How big are the worms?
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Old 01-18-2012, 04:41 AM
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It's not a good time of the year to have one shipped to you but in spring you could probably find someone how has some and willing to ship some to you.

Google live white worms for info on them and how to culture them. It's quite easy. They are about 1 inch for the adult, much smaller for the babies so just about any fish can eat them.

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Old 01-18-2012, 06:27 AM
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My sump/refugiums are usually overrun with pods and live mysis shrimp. Even my little 5g holding tank for Hawaiian volcano shrimp is crawling with pods and mysis. I usually keep balls of chaeto and other macroalgaes in each system (whether in the display or in the sump/refugiums) and so when I transfer rock and stuff from my sump/refugium into a new tank, it seeds that new tank with pods/mysis. I guess I've been very fortunate since it sounds like most reef tanks have little or no pod/mysis population. Been thinking of tearing down the little 5g but haven't mainly because of its unexpectedly high biodiversity. I don't see the Volcanos all that much but the free pods/mysis are overrunning the tank. Just left the tank alone and bam, population explosion. I guess it helps that there are no fish in there any more and the Volcanos are algae eaters.
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Hmmm... where would one buy a live white worm culture? How big are the worms?
Try Ken at BWA
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