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    Has anyone here ever cultured tubifex worms? I'm thinking of trying it. There's a good tutorial on line. My biggest problem is finding a place to do it. The fish room is too hot and I don't have any places left. I'll have to be creative.
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    Quote Originally Posted by LizStreithorst View Post
    Has anyone here ever cultured tubifex worms? I'm thinking of trying it. There's a good tutorial on line. My biggest problem is finding a place to do it. The fish room is too hot and I don't have any places left. I'll have to be creative.
    Would beneath the chicken coop be an option?

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    I figured out a place where I could put it in the house. I'd make a concrete stand for it. It's in my former dining room which I turned into a dog grooming room. I have a huge dog cage in a corner that I can remove. I am becoming weirder every day. Name one other person who has a tubifex worm culture in the house.
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    Quote Originally Posted by LizStreithorst View Post
    I figured out a place where I could put it in the house. I'd make a concrete stand for it. It's in my former dining room which I turned into a dog grooming room. I have a huge dog cage in a corner that I can remove. I am becoming weirder every day. Name one other person who has a tubifex worm culture in the house.
    This weirdo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ4T6QNgJrE

    Could you grow black worms the same way? And why would you not?

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    One would think so but so many people have tried and failed that I simply don't think it's possible. Tubifex for sure are easier. Remember, tubifex have the ability to live in sewer water.
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    Great idea. As long as you can control their environment you'll have a good clean source of food.

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    Never had experience with tubifex, but I ended up with a blackworm colony in my tank accidentally. I had a 30 Gal long with angelfish and bristlenose. The tank was barebottom with two ceramic caves. I fed blackworms to the angelfish back then, before I knew better. When the angelfish started pairing off, I moved them out to a bigger tank and just threw fed the bristlenose flake food and spirulina discs.

    A month later, I looked into the tank to see that blackworms had survived and were proliferating in the caves. (BN's absolutely will not eat anything alive.) For awhile, I could net out some blackworms daily for my other fish. I'm sure if I fed the blackworms, there would have been a lot more. I don't know if that's the best way to raise blackworms, but this is certainly one way of doing it.
    At my age, everything is irritating.

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    I think I'll use this guy's method. https://wormman.blog/tubifex-worm-cu...reeding-setup/
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    Why do people constantly inquire and risk disaster with tubifex? I suppose they may be ok if homegrown but why go thru the effort? There are so many other foods you can feed. Again, why risk it?

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    Just like you said, there is no risk with homegrown. I still haven't tackled the job (too many other projects on my plate) but I will. I feed commercially available foods of course, but I am of the belief that the best fish food is live food.
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    LMK how it goes. I might just do it as well - as long as wife doesn’t know

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    I'll for sure post about it but it will be likely be in the fall or winter before I get to it.
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    After reading all of this I bought a small container of freeze dry tubifex worms. fdtw.

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    did anyone give this a try

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    No, too many other things that I need to do. Besides, I used the place I was going to use for the culture for something else.
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