6 Month Update - Live Blackworm Culture - Long Term Low Tech Live Fish Food Culture

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Let's take a look at the giant live blackworm culture after 6 months of growth. It has turned into a natural ecosystem with lots snails, shrimp and even crayfish breeding in it!
If you missed the first video, find it here:
• How to Culture Live Bl...
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00:00 Introduction
00:40 6 Month Update
16:20 Close Up Shots
19:19 Outro

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@curvingfyre6810 7 ай бұрын

OOOH, so THATS why everyone cultures them in gravel! In the wild htey prefer softer substrates, so I was confused about all the tutorials specifying gravel, making them segment naturally makes perfect sense.

@jamesjohnston7952 Ай бұрын

I love the addition of the live plants to that as well. Thank you for the great video.

@shaunneal9981 5 ай бұрын

After watching your original video I set up a mini version of my own using a 3 gallon shallow tub on top of a 5 gallon bucket and it works so well. I've got heaps of blackworms and it does not take much effort to maintain. So glad I came across your video.

@dancurran8977 7 ай бұрын

Great setup! Thanks for sharing it.

@jeffkane4391 7 ай бұрын

Looking great Greg thanks for sharing 😊

@frankjames4743 7 ай бұрын

Oh wow. Very interesting setup especially with the CPO. Thank you for the update

@mirekt9521 7 ай бұрын

Thansk for the inspiration and update!

@vanuaturly 7 ай бұрын

Great setup, great video.

@barrycherneske4067 7 ай бұрын

Fantastic, I can only hope my rendition of your system will produce as well as yours! Thank you for sharing!

@shadygrady81 5 ай бұрын

Hey Greg! Met you yesterday at the SCTFS swap! I wish I had gotten to your table earlier, but maybe we can stay in touch for future purchases! Great video! 🤩😊👍🏻

@GrumpyGillsFishing 6 ай бұрын

What an amazing setup! I just ordered some blackworms to start my own culture. I only have 4 fish to feed, so I’m hoping I end up with far more than I need.

@Jabinho 7 ай бұрын

really cool setup

@LakeMissoulaAquaticsandPlants 7 ай бұрын

Thank you

@QueAquatics 7 ай бұрын

So so glad!!!!!

@LushSaltyAquariums 7 ай бұрын

Fascinating! I love feeding blackworms but can only dream of having a continuous healthy supply in my fish room.

@raysfishroom2929 7 ай бұрын

Hi Greg, I am going to the NEC Convention looking forward to it. I was informed Father fish was not invited to talk at the convention it would be great to see him there I believe a lot of fish keepers would benefit from his many years of fish keeping Ok thank you Ray

@spencer4997 4 ай бұрын

I’d love to see more videos about live feeders and newts

@conanlee9024 2 ай бұрын

This setup is so cool! Can we get more videos on what you have going on in your fish room?

@reticulous_pets Ай бұрын

Made mine and I'm weirdly obsessed with it. I come out everyday and just look at it. Does your worms go into the sponge? Mine go all through them.

@Rews-fishshed 7 ай бұрын

Hey Greg thank you for the update. As I said to you before I’m putting this up in the rebuild of the fish shed. I’ll try to send ya a video of it when it’s completed Quick question if you crush those snails would that also be a good source of food for them???

@dsproductions47 5 ай бұрын

I recommending shifting the gravel time to time to split the worm. They reproduce much faster this way. Like propagation

@christopherstaples6758 4 ай бұрын

infusoria colony above with a dripper works great as well , as they eat microbes / bacteria (that way you do not foul the water / have to separate worms from muck)

@Fray-hb3uw 18 күн бұрын

Do you have a video showing how you built your set up?

@majorbruster5916 7 ай бұрын

Nice setup. I keep mine outside in buckets and shallow trays. I find that the worms are vegetarian in nature, in some of my bins they eat short strands of filamentous algae and in others they eat decaying leaves. They prefer bacteria though, because where some layers pellets land in the bin near to where I throw these to my chickens, they quickly congregate around the pellets after a couple of days. A lot of earthworms drown in the bins after crawling in to eat the algae, and the worms gather around the dead body to eat the bacteria that are breaking down the flesh. All I do is collect the bunched worms using a slotted spoon. Downside is that I can only harvest during the summer.

@DickRippEnterprises 5 ай бұрын

How cold do your setups get in winter?

@majorbruster5916 5 ай бұрын

@@DickRippEnterprises -5, -7 °C, depends on how much frost we get. We're in a frost pocket here so we tend to get lower temperatures than the surrounding area.

@michaelkremer3301 6 ай бұрын

Tolles Update. Mit was fütterst du deine Würmer. Gruß aus Deutschland

@meghancass3187 21 күн бұрын

I really like this update. Have you calculated yield in lbs per square foot per month or week?

@smncowardyahoo 2 ай бұрын

A Further Update Please Greg............ Are the blackworms actually Tubifex ..... ??

@soulfulhysteria3066 4 ай бұрын

I asked in the other videos comment section but since this is newer I figured I'd ask here too. How do you keep the blackworms from escaping down the overflow drains?

@dshobe720 7 ай бұрын

Im glad i caught this youtube has failed to load your channel into my feed as usual. I live that you are using cheap quartz gravel. I have a bunch of turface soil conditioner i use. It is a fired clay product for baseball infields. I use it for aeration in potted plants, bonsai, and aquarium gravel.

@gregjonesonline 7 ай бұрын

I took a 2 year break from KZfaq and now the algorithm hates me

@dshobe720 7 ай бұрын

@gregjonesonline lol I understand 👍 any progress with your bonsai?

@gregjonesonline 7 ай бұрын

@@dshobe720 I have like 30 pre bonsai that I need to re pot, lol!

@dshobe720 7 ай бұрын

@gregjonesonline that is progress do a video of the one with the most growth when you repot that'll give you the most roots for the video. I have been wanting to incorporate a bonsai into a paludarium for a long while. Probably going to use button wood FL. Native and the Caribbean.

@garlenife 5 ай бұрын

Have you try some assassin snail or dwarf pufferfish, they should make a quick work for you. Since there are so many snail in there too.

@davidlee50 3 ай бұрын

So algae scrapings can become food for black worms if I make them into patties? hmm?

@fritzwilhelm8258 2 ай бұрын

How quickly do they reproduce?

@meminustherandomgooglenumbers 7 ай бұрын

Good info, thank you! Will the dwarf crayfish eat their own babies if they can?

@gregjonesonline 7 ай бұрын

Yes, they need room to run away and hide, this seems to be the perfect environment for it

@christophergonzalez6290 7 ай бұрын

What about feeding them rapashy ?

@lukeadams6757 3 ай бұрын

Time-lapse?

@gogetterhitter3 7 ай бұрын

What kind of rock did you use on this amazing

@gregjonesonline 7 ай бұрын

Small white quartz gravel

@kylesawyer64 7 ай бұрын

Any plans to expand the system? Seems that the same system but 3 or 4 tubs high woyldnt take up much more room

@gregjonesonline 7 ай бұрын

I have thought about building a rack with drawers that slide in and out like a kitchen to allow vertical stacking and easy access, I've also thought about digging some outdoor ponds and seeing what happens

@mrhick01 7 ай бұрын

Greg, what kind of substrate is that? Is it just white gravel (for contrast's sake to see critters) or is it something like Aragonite?

@gregjonesonline 7 ай бұрын

It is small white quartz style gravel because I had it laying around, I like it because it provides tons of little nooks for individual worms to live in, large gravel is bad and sand is bad

@desfishgeek8119 7 ай бұрын

curious. what type of gravel are you using... it appears to be aragonite?

@gregjonesonline 7 ай бұрын

It's small white quartz gravel, the cheap normal stuff

@laughingman_confused 7 ай бұрын

We call them blood worms here. I put a container above my pond, no gravel or substrate. Just plane container above the pond where fish can't enter buy water can circulate. The reason why no substrate is for easy harvesting.

@dshobe720 7 ай бұрын

Blood worms are the larva of a fly. These black worms do not metamorphose into any kind of insect they are just worms. Hope that clears up any confusion 😊

@laughingman_confused 7 ай бұрын

@@dshobe720 I looked up and you are right about blood worms. But the black worms in this video, in are country, we call them blood worms, tubifex and sludge worms.

@dshobe720 7 ай бұрын

@@laughingman_confused ahh the trouble with common names strikes again lol. Lumbriculus variegatus is the worm Greg is raising.

@laughingman_confused 7 ай бұрын

@@dshobe720 yeah this is exactly what I have.

@dshobe720 7 ай бұрын

@@laughingman_confused awesome I have to go catch some. I have plans on making salamanders and newts a nice home and want to be able to feed them a home grown meal, also because the nearest pet store is an hour away and it is not a good one.