Cultivating blackworms

[Reefbox]

Does anyone have any info/links on cultivating black worms? I have read that live black worms are high nutrition and they can really stimulate a pair of clowns to breed.

I was thinking about setting up an indoor black worm cultivation system.


Thanks for any input.

 

[Tomoko Schum]

Try this website:

http://www.carolina.com/tips/worm/worm.asp

The above method works well, but in my experience a few dead oak leaves worked better than a sheet of brown/unbleached paper towel. I collected fallen oak leaves from wooded area away from roads and boiled them before putting them into a culture container. I was using blackworms for my apistogramma breeding (not salt water.) For fresh water fish, grindal worm (dwarf white worm) works just as well, but I don't if they work well nutritionally for salt water fish. Grindal worms mutiply much faster than blackworms, though.

Tomoko