[quote="deepesh"]No probs sukhdeep. If there are mosquitoes then you are doing fine. The watery white stuff is likely a bacterial colony. Wash it off and keep up with the water changes.
@ deepesh this romifex is playing hide and seek with me. In the morning i could see only one small cluster and when I saw the box in thee evening and it was bursting with population bomb.i could see around 15 clusters of worms. You can collect them tomorrow.
So the romifex crashed!
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This is what i do too. Take the scotchbrite pad out, rinse and dry it, and replace with a previously cleaned and dried one. A big enemy of these worms is the insidious slime fungus that appears when the culture is not doing well. it looks like a sheet of slime, and competes with the worms. When it colonises the pad too deep, the worms give up. unless you are willing to spend a lot of time sucking it out with the 60 ml syringe, regularly. Possible but tedious. Better start afresh with a different Scotchbrite pad.VishaalDalal wrote:Wash the culture box and flood the scotch brite, you may see some small clumps. to restart the culture.
this stinking mess is actually a cycle in my cultures every month or 2 i get this mass destruction in my cultures (happens one by one) the only thing i see to combact this is to change the scotch brite(i wash the old one and put it in the sun to dry and disinfect.(reuse this in the next cycle.)
i never use brand new pads either. i float it in a tank first, so that it is colonised by some nice friendly bacteria first. every culture is like a cycled tank, it needs the right balance of helpful bacteria. Otherwise, the scum appears and takes over..
BTW, i never handle the worms. For feeding i suck them out with the syringe, and then shake it so that the balls separate and the worms are swimming individually. Then i just squirt the worm water into the tank and watch the fish dive for their food. Change water with syringe, suck out worms and feed, with the syringe. And if u are just getting the first bits of the slime sheet, suck that out (gathers easily, like cloth), and squirt into your potted plants.
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Thanks a lot for the offer Sukhdeep! I am going to Ludhiana for a marriage and will be back on the 25th. Will come then. I expect to have something to give in exchange.
So now the live food masters are coming out with their personal innovations on the standard technique. Keep them coming guys. I was using a similar technique as Romi when planning my third culture. I was using the waste water from the worms water change to inoculate the pads but disaster intervened.
By the way Romi, IPad spell check insists on Romeo when I type your name!
So now the live food masters are coming out with their personal innovations on the standard technique. Keep them coming guys. I was using a similar technique as Romi when planning my third culture. I was using the waste water from the worms water change to inoculate the pads but disaster intervened.
By the way Romi, IPad spell check insists on Romeo when I type your name!
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So the romifex crashed
The first ones a Hemibarbus labeo and the second ones a Fugu niphoblis. The puffer is pretty peaceful and the labeos a little skittish