Share Your Culture Recipes.......

[Aqualung]

I'm not sure how many here culture their own live foods, but I am looking for a good mold-resistant recipe for culturing walterworms.

I started two cultures a few days ago using potato flake as the medium. One is booming atm, but is developing mold. The other, which wasn't seeded as heavily, developed a terrible odor as well as mold. I threw the second one out as it wasn't producing and smelled awful.

Now I am preparing to start a new culture, and would like to avoid mold issues. I know apple cider vinegar is a mold inhibitor (I use it in my fruit fly cultures), so I was thinking of using this instead of water. I'm not sure if the worms will do well with the vinegar or not though.

Any mold-resistant recipes or other tips would be great! Thanks

 

[Tom.E]

I just use dampened whole wheat bread. Smells like roses compared to the other microworm glops.

Tom

 

[WharfRat]

I used oatmeal in electrical tape containers..changed oatmeal about every two weeks. Never had an issue with smell or mold

 

[Aqualung]

I started a new culture using less water than before, so I'll see how that works out. I also removed the mold from my working culture, and let it air out some. I already have millions of worms in that culture - they sure do mulitply fast!

I am going to start some others as well, for experimentation. I think I'll try out the oatmeal and the bread for comparison. Thanks for the input!