Very seldom do I ever post on a thread that is about the pros and cons or the good
and bad of Blackworms. I'm a firm believer of going with what your comfortable with.
We don't push them, as a family business we do try to offer the best product and service we possibly can.
Ultimately the Hobbyists and end users are who decide wether we stay in business or not. All based on their experiences with our product or our service. All Forums have a lot of old and new Hobbyist/Members. They come and go also.
Briefly about what we do, numbers wise. To give an idea of how many lbs the USA consumed this past year. Remember there are only two of us in the country, we're both close to each other in volume. Take what I do and double that. We've been doing this for maybe 25-28 years now. I ship a low of 1200 to a high of 1600 lbs a week, have done this for years. So apx 70,000 lbs in 2010. Double that with the two Farms.
If they were deadly we would have wiped out a lot of the tropical fish in this country.
Its just another way to look at it.
Below is a partial list of Aquariums & Zoos, State & USFW Hatcheries and Universities that we shipped to this past year. Not to mention major Drug Companies that I can't name or the Live that I ship to Malaysia and Europe. Not to diminish our Hobby investments, the list below have 100's of thousands of $$ if not millions invested in their projects, research and who knows what, that Blackworms have some small part of.
Their comfortable enough to use Live Blackworms.
Sorry for the long post and everyone try to have a great 2012.
thanks from all of us.
Dan, Jennifer, Amanda, Elaine and the Farm Crew
Albuquerque Aquarium
Audubon Aquarium of the Americas
Chicago Zoological Society/Brookfield Zoo
Cincinnati Zoo
Cleveland Metro parks Zoo
Columbus Zoo and Aquarium
Fort Wayne Zoological Society
Fort Worth Zoo
Georgia Aquarium
Jacksonville Zoological Society, Inc.
Maryland Zoo in Baltimore
Monterey Bay Aquarium
NC Aquarium Roanoke Island
Oklahoma City Zoo
Philadelphia Zoo
Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG AQ.
Riverbank Zoo & Garden
Saint Louis Zoo
San Antonio Zoo
Sedgwick County Zoo
Tennessee Aquarium
Virginia Marine Science Museum
US Army Corps of Engineers
USFW Willow Beach
USFW Greers Ferry NFH
USFW Mammoth Spring
USFW National Conservation Training Center
USFW San Marcos
USFW Warm Springs Hatchery
Uvalde Fish Hatchery
Alabama Aquatic Bio diversity
California Dept. of Fish and Game
Chattahoochee NFH
Colorado Division of Wildlife
Conservation Fisheries Inc
David White/USGS
Dexter National Fish Hatchery
Edenton National Fish Hatchery
Hancock Biological Station
Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife
Shepherd of the Hills Hatchery
Virginia Dept. of Game & Inland Fisheries
Arizona State University
Belmont University,Biology Dept
Bowling Green State University
California State Univ. Fullerton
Cape Breton University
Carnegie Institute of Washington
Carolina Biological
Clark University
Columbia Environmental Research Center
Creighton University
Eastern Illinois University
Harvard Medical School,Dept of Genetics
Georgia Institute of Technology
Humboldt State University
Indiana University
Kennedy Krieger Institute
Johns Hopkins University
McGill University
McMaster University, Dept of Biology
Muhlenberg College
Minot State University
Mississippi State University
Dept. of Wildlife & Fisheries
Missouri State University
New Mexico State University/Dept. of Biol
Ottawa Hospital
Penn State University (Biology Dept.)
Southern Illinois University
St. Lawrence university
Stanford University,CEE Dept.
Texas A & M University
Texas State University at San Marcos
UCLA Dept. of Ecology & Evol Biology
Univ of Maryland, Baltimore
Univ. of Miami, RSMAS
Univ of Texas at El Paso
Univ. of Florida, The Whitney Laboratory
Univ. of South Carolina
Univ. of Utah/Cardiology Div.
University of Arkansas, Pine Bluff
University of Ca. @ Berkeley
University of California Riverside
University of Colorado at Colorado Spring
University of Dayton Biology Dept.
University of Delaware
University of Florida, Tropical Aquacult
University of Florida/Dept. of Zoology
University of Guelph
University of Mary Washington
University of Maryland/College park
University of Memphis
University of Michigan Biological Station
University of Minnesota Duluth
University Of Nebraska
University of New Mexico
University of Oklahoma
University of Ottawa
University of Saskatchewan
University of Texas A & M
University of Texas at Austin
Section of Neurobiology
University of Texas
HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO
University of Utah
University of Virginia
University of Washington
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
University of Wisconsin/River Falls
Vanderbilt University Med Center
Washington University
West Virginia University