Re: flies in my Gindal Worms!

["Matt & Linda Crocker" <crockerm@peak.org>]

One more thing,

  use a turkey baster to suck the worms off the bottom to start the
new culture again

Matt
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matt & Linda Crocker" <crockerm@peak.org>
To: <apisto@v2.listbox.com>
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 7:29 PM
Subject: Re: flies in my Gindal Worms!


> Alan,
>
>     The flies just compete for the food and the easiest way to get
> rid of them is to dump the whole culture in a bucket of water and
> decant the flies off the top.  The worms will sink to the bottom
and
> flies will float.  Then just start a fresh culture with new media
> and a sterilized culture container.
>
> Matt
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Alan Whitten" <caw18@bak.rr.com>
> To: <apisto@listbox.com>
> Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 2:46 PM
> Subject: flies in my Gindal Worms!
>
>
> I have maintained my Grindal worm culture for about 4 months now,
> and I am afraid that it is being over run with fruit flies.  The
fly
> maggots are about all I can find in my culture now.  Do the
maggots
> eat the worms, or just out compete them for food?  Has anyone
found
> a way to get the flies out of their culture?
> Thanks,
> C. Alan
>
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