Re: Live Black worms and other cultures...

["Tom Hearn" <tom@richie.demon.co.uk>]

you can do them in the uk in the summer, but yeah they need the heat
----- Original Message -----
From: Ted Backman <tedb@valvesoftware.com>
To: <apisto@majordomo.pobox.com>
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2000 7:27 PM
Subject: RE: Live Black worms and other cultures...


> :Off subject warning:
>
> Erik,
>
> How easy/possible is it to culture daphnia outside in cooler climates,
(like
> the northwest).  I was always under the impression that you could only
> culture daphnia in the summer (i.e. the last weekend in August) here?!
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erik Olson [mailto:erik@thekrib.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 21, 2000 8:40 AM
> To: apisto@majordomo.pobox.com
> Subject: Re: Live Black worms and other cultures...
>
>
> I always thought bloodworms were midge fly larvae.  They show up in our
> Daphnia/mosquito pond (i.e. kiddie pool) as well, hiding in the mulm that
> accumulates on the bottom.  I don't think they are a mosquito larvae.
>
>   - Erik
>
>
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Phil Eaton wrote:
>
> > >From reading the old posts on The Krib, they are different.  Bloodworms
> are
> > actually a mosquito larvae of some sort that has shown up in my mosquito
> > larvae buckets.  Blackworms, Lumbriculus variegatus, are completely
> > different in their look as well as the fact they don't go through a
> > metamorphic phase like the bloodworms.  (I read all that on The Krib as
> > well.)
> >
> > Phil Eaton
>
> --
> Erik Olson
> erik at thekrib dot com
>
>
>
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