There are several ways to culture Banana Worms. Remember a mixed combination diet for your fish is the best way to utilize your fish needs. Banana Worms are easy to culture at home for a never ending supple of newly hatched fry food.
Also, you don’t have to worry about Banana Worms being able to growing too big for your new fish fry. The good thing about Banana Worms is that they can live in a tank of water for over 12 hours. Remember over feeding of any food can cause a loose in a whole fry batch. Then, take your figure or small paintbrush, and rinse it in your fish tank. Removing microworms from the sides will reduce debris contamination. Simply take your finger or a small clean paintbrush, and remove the worms from the sides of your container. Also, you don’t have to worry about rinsing the salt off of your worms. Banana Worms are perfect for rearing at room temperatures. Also, baby brine shrimp are harder to rear due to temperature, salinity, and growth restrains.
Baby brine shrimp are often too large for some newly hatched fish fry to eat in the first couple weeks of life. Banana Worms reproduce faster than microworms, which make them easier to culture faster if you are short on time. They are more size appropriate (1/16 inch or less) for very small fry that are not able to eat baby brine shrimp or Microworms. Banana Worms can live at temperature room temperatures, and optimum reproduction rate is at about 68-85F degrees.īanana Worms are one of the best foods to start out for your newly hatched fish fry like killifish, guppies, betas, gouramis, tetra, barbs, danios, and many others. They live for about 35 days and a female Banana Worm can have 60 young a day at around 4 days old. Banana worms are non-parasitic and live off of the bacteria and yeast from the Banana culture medium. Banana Worms are white-clear and have a worm like shape and movement. They very tiny, and if you can’t see very close you might just miss them. They are a slightly more productive worm than the microworms though. Banana Worms are actually a species of nematode, which grows on average to 1/16 of an inch or less or a little smaller in size than the Microworm. Panagrellus Nepenthicola or Banana Worm is actually not a worm at all, but called a worm because of their minute size and worm like appearance.
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