Cultivating live food

[algae]

Is cultivating worms something worth doing, if so what type of worm would you recommend for Guppies and Neon's

[SPACKlick]

@Vale! is the resident expert i believe. It's something I keep considering but it's the post larval forms that put me off.

[algae]

Post larval forms, hmm, I'll have to look that up.

[BigBen]

Live food has its benefits, particularly to condition fish into spawning and for feeding fry. I have successfully had micro/banana worms in the past for fry, however in my view they are a no due to the stench. You can get started colonies on Ebay easily enough and you just put them on a water/oat substrate and watch them grow on the side of a pot. I've been looking into Grindal worms recently, however I haven't tried it yet so I won't advise for now. Brine shrimp tend to be a good all round option, but for a single tank I wonder if its worth simply buying the live food from the shop - although to be fair, going to the shop is out of the question at the moment!

[Art]

Enchytrae albidus, that is white worm.
In the basement.
And Enchiträus buchholtzi, that's grindal worm. You need more warmth.
Both are easy to do.

[jammedfool]

How about springtails? You grow them on activated carbon/charcoal (proper wood, not the briquettes), feed them dry rice

Have a couple of pots of those going and you can swap over to keep their numbers up?

[Staffylover]

In the summer months it's easy just use any large plastic container, couple of pond plants, keep filled with water and you will soon get at least mosquito larvae and possibly daphnia, I kick started the daphnia with 1 bag of live and soon had loads, admittedly this wont help you now, perhaps you could use frozen until then?

[algae]

Thanks guys, given me something to think about

[Art]

Now is the time to set up containers of water (fertilized) in the garden. Mosquito larvae will come. These egg packages are collected and hatched on the windowsill.
Little fish are happy.