Wanted: Microworms

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  1. Edward

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    Hi there, if anyone have or know where I can get/buy a microworm culture in Bellville, Western Cape, area; please drop me a reply. Mine died out a while ago. :(
     
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    Hi Edward, i dont have microworms, but i do have meal worms if you want ?
     
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    Thanks Donny, but the meal worms won't work for fish fry.
     
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    you could easily start a culture of your own buy just taking some soil from your garden (or anywhere as the worms occour naturally almost everywhere in the world) ,place a piece of potatoe in the soil for about 3weeks in a closed container with air holes ,after the 3week period take out the potatoe and rinse it off over cheese cloth to collect the worms ,then just add them to whatever culture media you usually use.I have personally done this using waste potatoe skins and have been sucessfull everytime , I never even strained the worms as I could harvest my starter culture directly from the walls of the container I left the skins in.
     
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    I found it hard to believe, but I've googled and I must thank you for that valuable advice. I've got a compost heap with some potato skins and will chuck it in a container and see what happens. I'll let you know, just for interrest sake, if it worked for me just as well as it for you. Thanks again!!!
     
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    Glad I could help ,have you got any progress updates yet?
     
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    Unfortunately I don't. I'll try again with fresh potato skins. Thanks for the interest.
     

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