A FOREVER MICROWORM CULTURE
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- Опубликовано: 29 авг 2024
- ONE YEAR OLD MICROWORM CULTURE
END SMELLY MICROWORM
MICROWORM CULTURE THAT LASTS FOREVER!
Keep long term microworm culture smelling like fresh bread for up to a year! This amazing breakthrough was created first by '
Joey of @HATTRICK FARMS. Many fish keepers have already started their own forever microworm culture. Now you can too. Follow the easy steps outlined in this video and you, too, can have the scent of fresh bread in your fish room whenever you feed microworms.
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Father Fish is an old time fish keeper. For 70 years he has kept fish. These are his simple, easy, bullet-proof methods for keeping healthy, happy tropical fish in an environment that can truly be called a living aquarium.
Louis Foxwell adopted the role of Father Fish many years ago when he decided to open a tropical fish store as a retirement business. He had been a missionary, following in his father's footsteps for 25 years. Both men served the same congregation of deaf worshipers.
Tropical fish were Father fish's constant companion throughout his life. He tells a wonderful story about his grandmother who kept fish in Berlin, Germany as a child.
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Awesome video one again FF. Perfect timing because I was just getting into feeding these for my pygmy sunfish. THANKS!
It is really a perfect food for them. All of my nano fish enjpy microworms.
This method WORKS and truly is 'forever'! I had set up three FatherFish microworm culture jars and I misplaced one of them. I found the misplaced jar today and going by the date on the label I wrote when I made the culture, I lost it a week shy of a year. The level of rice {now liquid with some rice solids left in solution) is about a third of an inch from the bottom, and SURPRISE! The culture is still alive and still smells like "fresh bread"! I'm absolutely amazed! God bless you FatherFish for putting out these true pearls of fish-keeping wisdom out there for us!
did you put solid cooked rice or put it in the blender and grinded it ?
@@yashwantn5533 Solid cooked rice. Likely the yeast broke down the rice as a food source and the liquid remained.
@@JamesA.-wf1co So, no yeast also for 1 year but still it worked. So may be Yeast is required only in the beginning
I followed this method and it is the best and cheapest method for me . Reason because i am from Asia we use boiled rice in a daily basis so rice is readily available for me . So if you have rice with you .
Preparation method: take boiled rice and place it in a plastic transparent container. rice should having a deepness of 3 to 4 inch or 7 cm and add a little bit of water like half inch or 1cm of water . The quantity of rice will help the culture last longer. After adding the rice and water and a little amount of yeast over the rice ( you dont have to mix it or make the rice into a paste format just leave it as it is ) add the microworm culture on top and close the top with clothe or lid which should have air circulation and add yeast once in a week. You will have a good culture from which you can harvest daily . You should only start harvesting only if the worms start to climb on the sides
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Dear Father Fish,
My micro worms order from ebay arrived today...
I decided to once more look at what people are doing to keep a culture going before I deal with mine - it's the first time I do this.
And there was your video.
I looked at it and listened to it, so I cooked some rice, I cooled it quickly with the pan over could water and divided my starter culture in 2. Prepared two small containers as recommended... Some went on top of porridge as the seller suggested, some went over the rice as you suggested, and you credited Joey for it, I also sprinkled a bit of yeast over the rice first. Labelled both cultures with their content and date and here is hope....
On Joey's channel I saw a short video of chocolate micro worms... I wrote a small comment that I never look at chocolate in the same way, and it's all your fault for being the kind guy you are and giving here all the credit...
Thanks for sharing Father Fish
I only use foods that can breed in the tank out of convenience but for my frogs i am looking at getting these so thank you.
Which food you use that grow in tank Please ????
U Rock Father Fish! I used to have this culture but I almost totally forgot about it. Thank you for your service!
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Thank you Rohan. I will join you.
Love the white clouds! I have the white clouds with Danio tinwinni.. 😊
I do enjoy your shorter informative videos
Glad you like them!
That yeast makes a fine tasting mead of about 11%ABV.
I use Rice Crispy and water with the same result. I add more Rice Crispy as it gets a little runny. I am going to see if I can just add more Rice Crispy and water and keep going. I have never add more yeast after the initial dusting.
go for it.
Have a very old worm bin...with tons if micro organisms as well as wiggler worms....going to see what I can grow....saved a tiny 3 leged toadlet once just feeding her these little critters...my daughter cared for that toad for over 15 years!!! They can live 30...but, it never hibernated.Thanks for your channel.
Great information, I have never tried this.
You should!
Ff I did with red rice one week ago .This is very helpful video.
good man Naresh.
That's a cool tshirt.
Thanks Suman
MW are great 😘 It stimulates the prey drive and after initial feeding, the fish continue to get excited hunting around for the ones that ‘got away’ 👍 I have used mashed banana with oats to smell better but keen to try the rice 🌾
How often do you add yeast? 😍
Thekey is to make it deeeep. I add yeast twice a week.
Father Fish, I keep the banana peal in a plastic container for some days and the culture develops :)
Have never used banana peel. Will try iy. Thank you Vipin.
Hi Vipin - just a banana peel in a plastic container on its own? No starter culture?
@@celiademellomachado7636 Yes just put some banana peel in a plastic container and keep it aside for 4-5 days, initially the water will be milky white and then it will be clear. In 4-5 days, you can see microworms. (In some cases it may take 6-7 days also)
@@VipinBorole thank you so much!
@@VipinBorole one more question! My banana peel is in plastic container - must I make a hole in the lid at this stage?
Dear Father Fish, I posted a few days about my culture having arrived and me dividing it into porridge, and rice, the one with porridge had the most and I was able to to feed just a few worms every day to my cory fry, since then I found no dead cories...
Today however, the culture with the rice and yeast was completely crazy with worms all the way up to the lid, everything was covered. So today all my fish had a massive worm dinner... so once again, thank you so much for this video.
A few questions if I may:
How do you know when to feed more yeast?
How do you know when to add more rice?
I read an article that they can tolerate cold near freezing, I'm considering keeping a bit of a culture in my fridge for safe keeping.
Your views and answers would be greatly appreciated
Many thanks, Charlie
Good idea about refrigerating. Yest when the culture is not growing up the sides. You should not need to add more rice.
@@FatherFish Thank you kindly. 👃
i will try that Father Fish!
You will love it Cynthia.
Always great info! I'd like to know, what is the deep substrate solution for fish that will dig deep into the substrate like multies and bigger species of geophagus?
Add an additional inch of sand. Ifthey go deeper add more sand.
Love it! 👍👍✌
Thank you! Cheers! Triple J.
good video father fish, I gone to ty this method :)
Go for it Imre.
Looks interesting, need to try it. When is our aquarium sump video:).
You will never go back.
do not have one set up yet.
So you don’t need flakes/pellets if you feed them these worms?
Wow, its nematodes? You could put them in the substrate couldnt you? For the foodweb.
Could you grow Protozoa as well?
good question Tommy. Certainly is possible,
How about sourdough starter? Wild yeast already present as well as the starch.
I tried it once. Worked beautfully.
Terima kasih pak 😊❤
I like to learn more from u
I use chlorella instead. I'd feel bad feeding them filler food. They bloom a lot more like that. Same way I found it about daphnia. I don't really feed fish them. I just raise them and their populations are booming
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How often can you feed these microworms to your fish? daily? can you use it as their main diet?
yes, for babies
Now I know why your called fatherfish.
NICE> Care to share your insight?
I was thinking about one thing.When I first had my tank I used to feed live tubifex worms to my fishes. Sometimes a small bundle of them lay over the gravel which disappeared after some time. Next time I would find those worms poking their heads out from the gravel. Can the same thing be done for dirted tanks? Is it safe?
yes. Absolutely. And more. Much more.
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Interesting. Do you keep the container in sunlight or darkness? Is it at room temp?
Room temp, daylight is fine.
Amazing video again.
Glad you enjoyed it!
You say it will last up to a year, how do you know it is time to refresh the culture? Do the worms eat the rice? When you crate a new culture what do you do with the old culture? Is it disposed of?
You need the experience of raising the culture. Precludes the necessity of answering meaningless questions.
Did you add any water to your quart of rice, you mentioned it was 6 weeks old already, it seemed to look alittle liquidy, when you tilled it you could see alittle shifting over some. Question number you said this culture could last a year, how often do you feed it the yeast? Leonard Barron
I have found it necessary to add moisture occasionally. My rule has ben to add yeast weekly.
Cooked some white rice earlier today, bought culture earlier this week and have active dry yeast. Gonne make this tonight. FF for how long must I leave it? I deduced from the video it is 6 weeks, but please let us know.
The culture will be ready to harvest in a few days, a week at most. Harvest daily and feed with yeast weekly. If you make the culture deep, about 6", it will last for many months. To harvest use a small brush (or your finger)
@@FatherFish Thanks FF I made the culture yesterday evening
Interesting, once we’ve finished moving I’ll have to try rice as the culture media and see how the smell compares to oatmeal and potato ‘cause those two are foul
It will not foul if you make it DEEEEP!
It shouldn't smell, maybe your yeast isn't activating. Did you activate the yeast with warm water and yeast isn't a big seller, so your yeast might be bad
Father fish I know you said to to add cook rice, but I notice your culture look a bit fluid. Do you need to add some sort of liquid to the rice?
I did not George. It occasionally becomes a bit watery on top. I add yeast or some cereal.
I'm in the process of starting my culture today. I've put a potato in soil. I'll let you know how things turn out. That for sharing your knowledge with us.
@@JorgeSanchez-qz7os Please let us know if you are able to create a microworm culture in this way.
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Hello how did u make that paste in jar I mean do i hv to add rice and water in container ? Can u just tell me thank youu
I put cooked rice from the local Chinese carryout in a 1 quart container. Sprinkled dry yeast and added a starter teaspoon of microworm cul;ture. That's it! Mine is now 9 months old and still producing. I sprinkle yeast once a week.
What a fast response. Thank you father fish and 1 last thing when u put cooked rice in container did u add some water ? I mean ur culture looks hydrated does it need water every week like we sprinkle yeast? I live where temperature is 10 -15 degrees can i culture it thank you :))
@@pawananimus I have never added water.
where do you get your sand?
Anywhere you can find it. I like to use swimming pool filter sand.
How do you limit the amount of non-mealworm material that you deposit in the tank? I worry I’d just be feeding my fish yeast and ricewater
Feed live or frozen
Does the potato need to be outside in the ground or can you do it with potting soil? I am concreted locked
Potting soil will work.
Dear Dr Fish and Friends,
Does it have to be this type of yeast? Will instant dry work?
any yeast will work
What to do when the rice is finished by worms we make another one or can we feel it with cooked rice and add yeast for worms ??
It will take a VERY long time
Its been a week and my culture has a layer of fungus on the top with no worms what to do ??? Do i have to keep it for more time ???
try a new one
how to culture bloodworm and tubifex worm and daphnia ? specially without having starter culture ?
Create a resurrection jar and collect the species you want from the wild as it shopws up in your jar. Build a starter culture from that.
we don't have tubifex worm in our wild@@FatherFish
and we have frozen bloodworm not live ones@@FatherFish
Tubifex are in every ‘wild’ on our planet - including big cities! Check culverts, drains, stinky rain puddles in the park. Culture the tubifex without feeding them to your fish for a month or two if you have concerns about where you sourced them from.
Father Fish, after a month do you just pour it into the tank?
A small amount at a time
Never heard of microworms. Better than baby brine?
smaller. Best for tiny baby fish.
Hi there! I know this is an older video - but maybe you'll see this. Do you have any issues with the rice going moldy?
mold kills the culture
@@xKenn good question Ken. I do not have an answer but it does not mold.
Perhaps the white rice while have lots of carbs is nutritionally incomplete for most organisms. The bakers yeast cannot eat the rice so will not grow. The worms completely take over the surface where they can get both the carbs from the rice and the other essential nutrients from the yeast. If so this is brilliantly clever. I'm very impressed and thank you very much for sharing. The underlying basis could perhaps be used for other cultures. Adding the rice while still hot and "clean" probably helps a lot.
How boiled rice became liquid
Actually became worms.
@@FatherFish thanks, hope the same will work for grindal worms as well
I buried an apple and got pink spring tails instead of microworms. Aha
funny. Potatoes get microworms. Apples get spring tails.
R Pin worm 🪱 same as Micro 🪱 worm?
Do not believe it is the same. Pin worm is a parasite.
My culture got fungus where did i go wrong i did everything like u said sir 😭😭 plzzz help me
the fungus is a natural mold and is not a problem.
Its been a week and i dont see microworms on the side just a layer of thick fungus on top do i have to keep it for some more time ???
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Hey Vicky.
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Been doing this for years. It isn't all that new. Read it in the Killie Notes magazine from the 1960's.
Some of us aren't old enough to remember the 60s, so it's a blessing for us when old-timers pass this knowledge on to younger generations through social media platforms. I am certainly grateful. 😊
@@Orwellian-Purple-Grapes-1984 me too grateful that Father fish shared this
I don't a difference between these instructions and the instructions found in hundreds of other RUclips videos.
He uses rice instead of other materials, which is the key difference. It doesn't smell and lasts longer. I'm not sure what the point of your comment was, but I hope you see how this video differs from the others.
So DRAGED out and so many adds , very discouraging to watch