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looking for live tubifex culture


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Do you know a dairy farmer down that way??

Ask if you can go through his compost heap, otherwise known as his effluent outfall for his cowshed.

This time of year the area is pretty much a semi solid heap of compost full of tubifex.

Good luck.

But remember that they have to be kept in runnimg water to clean them out, or else you can risk it if ya game.

Alan 104

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I'd have to guess that if given a series of washes they'd clean out most of the unwanted material & bugs... couldn't they then be put through a series of broad spectrum bug treatments & rewashed assuming they survived the treatment.

I may be able to keep them in running water for a few days off & on untill clean (temp at a guess 10 C).

So far as the dairy farm goes... I don't know of any locally as the area is better suited to vineyards than dairy untill you're closer to central southland.

I have to go to Manapouri in a few days time perhaps I can find a dairy farm en route.

Does anyone know the method used to clean frozen bloodworm? They're supposedly bug free.

***alanmin4304... I take it you don't supply them to shops now... is that due to bug problems? How did you clean them? 45lbs about a 20 litre bucket solid!! thas a lot of worms.

Can you still supply clean worms?

BTW is anyone going to be in Queenstown over winterfest (started Friday for 10 days)? I was up Coronet yesterday & although a bit thin in a couple of places the snow is pretty good (the Remarkables is just open).

Theres a few other things I need to look at re tubifex such as:

lifecycle

temperature range

treatment tollerances / intollerances

culture volumes vs productivity

potential food sources (possibly rabbit pellets).

Are tubifex native to NZ or are they something that came about with cows?

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