Cultures: Vinegar eels
You can read about these creatures from the internet at your liesure, but the few advantages they have could be a life saver for your fry.
- They swim around in the water column
- Perfect size for betta fry
- The culture can be kept alive for years
- Easy to culture & harvest
Vinegar eels in a small flower bottle.
Vinegar eels cultivation. Normally, a floss is
used, but don't have one so I used a bath cloth/sponge.
Notice! The sponge has slipped down the neck but it still works.
Here are some of the ways I have read or heard how people have harvested their vinegar eels. It is up to you to decide what method you want to use base on what you have available.
- User an eye dropper, pick up the eels and vinegar solutions and drop it directly into the fry tank.
- Pour some solutions through a coffee filter and dip the filter directly into the fry tank or into an aged and dechlorined water container and use an eye dropper to feed.
- Use a long neck flask or bottle and use a floss to block the bottom of the neck with fresh water on top. Fill the neck with aged water and wait for the eels to swim up. Use an eye dropper to pick up the eels and water and drop it around the fry tank. I like this method!
How do you culture these?
There are many ways of doing it, here are some of the links that I have come across.For me, I culture these eels by mixing in 50% apple cider vinegar and 50% dechlorined water or distilled water and a few slice of apples. There are a few experiments I would like to do in the future when I have some time.
- What's the results between apple chunks and apple juice?
- Can I use the apples that grow in my backyard during the summer? (they are sour :-))
- Do you have to peel the apple? (I currently do)