CATDOLL : CATDOLL: How to cultivate red worms (How to cultivate and breed red worms)

1. How do red worms reproduce?

Blood worms cannot reproduce on their own because they are the larvae of midges and can only lay eggs and reproduce when they become adults.

If you want to breed red worms, you can collect adult worms in late spring and early autumn, and then put them in an incubator. The temperature in the box should be controlled at 23-25℃, and the humidity should be controlled at 80-90%. When the adults lay eggs, keep the water level at the bottom of the box at about 10 cm and provide them with attachments. Generally, several wooden sticks of appropriate size can be put in.

2. How are red worms cultivated?

It is advisable to choose a cool and humid environment, and the density of red worms should not be too high.

Water source: Red worms are afraid of pungent odors. If they are raised with tap water, they must be exposed to the sun for a few days to remove the chlorine.

Cleaning: Clean the breeding pots and dead red worms in time to keep the red worm breeding pots clean.

Feeding: Glucose can be used directly for feeding, 2-3 times a week, a few milliliters at a time.

3. What is the fastest way to breed red worms?

Step 1

In late spring and early autumn, collect midges during the day and place them in prepared containers, waiting for them to lay eggs.

Step 2

The temperature in the container is guaranteed to be around 23-25°C and the humidity is around 80%-90%.

Step 3

When the midge lays eggs, put in a small wooden stick for the midge to attach its eggs to. After the eggs hatch, they become red worms.

4. How to breed red worms artificially?

1. Breeding method: The red worms in the breeding pond will generally lay eggs and reproduce in the spring of each year. At this time, fermented organic fertilizer should be regularly sprinkled into the pond to provide food for the red worms. After entering the summer, the pond water should be appropriately deepened. The water depth should be about 40-50cm. The red worms can be caught after they grow up.

2. Breeding method: Collect adults in late spring and early autumn during the day, collect them in the box in the evening and keep the temperature at 23-25℃, and the humidity should be maintained at 80-90%. After the adults lay eggs, the water level in the box should be 10cm, and there should be several small wooden sticks (2cm in diameter) for the adults to attach to facilitate egg-laying and reproduction.

5. How to breed red worms?

Here’s how

When breeding red worms, you should choose sludge with high organic matter content as the culture medium. First, cover it with water, and then add fertilizer and mixed feed. The temperature should be controlled at around 28 degrees, then you can arrange to introduce the species.

The density should also be controlled. It is appropriate to inoculate 500-750 grams per square meter of culture area. Usually, the red worms will enter the peak breeding period in about a month. 1 I. Breeding environment (1) You can prepare a larger glass container or open a small cement pool with a depth of 20-30 cm in a place where the sun is directly exposed to the sun. This can be used as a breeding pond to breed red worms. (2) The bottom of the breeding pond needs to be paved with silt. Red worms like fertile water. The water in the breeding pond can be raised with natural water. If tap water is used for breeding, the tap water needs to be placed in the sun for exposure and disinfection before use. (3) The breeding pond needs to be in an environment that is easy to keep warm and change water. The diameter of the container needs to be large to facilitate the red worms to float on the water surface to breathe. 2 II. Breeding management (1) Red worms like light. It is necessary to equip the breeding pond with a light source. Turn on the light at dark until the next day. If there is no light source in the dark, the red worms will not breathe in the water and will die due to lack of oxygen. (2) When feeding bloodworms, the water needs to be changed every day to ensure the water quality is fresh. The water depth of the breeding pond needs to be controlled at about 3-5 cm. The water depth can be slightly increased at night to achieve the purpose of keeping warm. (3) When changing the water for bloodworms, it is necessary to keep the bloodworms as warm as possible. The bloodworms and the container can be cleaned once to clean the mucus on the surface of the bloodworms and in the container to prevent bacteria from breeding in the mucus. (4) Bloodworms like to grow in a warm environment. The water temperature can be controlled at about 10-15℃. If the temperature is appropriate, the growth of bloodworms will be accelerated. 3. Feeding management (1) Bloodworms are omnivorous animals. Their main food is organic debris in sludge, poultry manure, domestic sewage, rice bran, etc. (2) In artificial breeding, rice bran, bird droppings, sludge, sugarcane bagasse, etc. can be fermented and fed to bloodworms. Yeast powder can also be soaked in water and fed. (3) When feeding bloodworms, you can use a small amount of feeding method multiple times. The feed is mixed with water and sprinkled in the breeding pond for the bloodworms to eat freely. Feed once every 3-4 days. When feeding, you need to pay attention to the amount of residual feed. If there is a lot of residual feed, you can feed relatively less feed. 4. Bloodworm breeding method 1. Bloodworms are the larvae of chironomids, which are bred by chironomids. The peak period of chironomid breeding is in late spring and early autumn.

2. Chironomids are afraid of light. You can collect adult chironomids during the day and place them in a prepared container. The temperature of the container needs to be maintained between 23-25 ​​degrees Celsius and the humidity between 80%-90% to facilitate chironomids to lay eggs.

6. What is the whole process of artificial breeding of red worms?

Step/Method 1

Red worms grow best in fertile water with steady water flow. When breeding red worms artificially, you need to build a cement pond with an area of ​​10-50 square meters. The depth of the water layer in the pond should be kept between 3-5 centimeters, and the bottom of the cement pond should be covered with silt rich in organic matter.

Step/Method 2

When artificially breeding red worms, there is no need to introduce species. When the water temperature rises above 14 degrees and the ambient temperature remains above 17 degrees, the chironomids will naturally fly to the breeding pond to lay eggs. During this period, it is best to keep the place quiet and not allow foreign animals to disturb the chironomids from laying eggs.

Step/Method 3

It only takes 2-7 days for red worms to hatch. The newly born larvae mainly feed on plankton and organic debris. You can sprinkle decomposed organic fertilizer into the pond once every week to increase the organic matter content in the pond water, or plant aquatic plants in the pond to provide enough food for the red worms.

Step/Method 4

Red worms are photophobic, so when breeding them artificially, you need to inject water into the pond when the light is relatively strong, so that the water depth is maintained at about 45 cm to prevent the red worms from being sun-dried to death. In addition, you need to build a pergola or sunshade net above the pond to allow the red worms to grow quickly.

7. How do red worms reproduce?

Red worms are bred by chironomids. Late spring and early autumn are the peak breeding seasons for chironomids. When collecting adult worms, take advantage of their ability to be luminous. Collect them during the day and collect them in the evening. Keep the temperature in the box between 23-25℃ and the humidity between 80-90%. When they lay eggs, keep the water level at the bottom of the box at about 10cm and put in a small wooden stick with a diameter of 2cm for the adult chironomids to lay eggs on.

8. How are red worms cultivated?

The red worms in the water are bred naturally or artificially.

The first female body, parthenogenetic, is relatively small, with a thin egg shell and little yolk. It does not need fertilization and can directly develop into an adult. Most of these adults are females, and then parthenogenetic. Therefore, they can reproduce in large numbers in a short period of time, and appear red.

Red worms:

Daphnia belongs to the phylum Arthropoda, class Crustacea, subclass Branchiopoda. Commonly known as fish worms. Here we must pay attention to the difference between them and the larvae of the midge, commonly known as red worms.

Daphnia are small, about 2 mm long, light flesh-red, and live in fresh water. The body is divided into a head and a trunk, with a carapace, and the trunk has five pairs of trunk limbs (thoracic limbs), which are organs for movement and breathing.

They are usually cultivated artificially to feed fish. They are also common in the wild.

Cultivation method:

Whether it is an earthen pond or a mud pond, yeast and inorganic fertilizer mixed culture method can be used. Add 20 grams of yeast per cubic meter of water. The yeast can be soaked in water for 3 to 4 hours before being poured into the pond. Apply 65 grams of ammonium carbonate and 37.5 grams of ammonium nitrate per cubic meter of water. Apply once every 5 days, and the amount used is half of the initial amount. After adding yeast, expose the pond water to the sun for 1 to 3 days, and then add Daphnia as seeds. The amount of seeds used is 30 to 50 grams per cubic meter of water.

Note:

If red worms appear in drinking water, the water is contaminated and cannot be drunk.

9. How to raise and breed red worms at home?

In the natural environment, red nematodes mainly feed on bacteria, yeast, algae and organic debris (fragments of plants and animals). To artificially culture red nematodes, you must prepare the culture solution in advance. Take 4.5 kg of fertile soil (soil from the garden or vegetable garden) and 1 kg of straw (cut into 2 cm), pour them into a large tank, add 50 kg of water, stir thoroughly, place at 15-18℃ for 3-4 days, then filter with gauze. The filtrate is called the stock solution. Take a certain amount of the stock solution and pour it into another tank, then add 2-4 times the pond water, so that the culture solution is prepared. At this time, you can put a small amount of red nematodes into the culture solution, and keep the water temperature at 18-25℃. The red nematodes grow very fast and will multiply in large quantities to feed goldfish or other fish. In the process of cultivating red nematodes, add the stock solution at any time to ensure sufficient feed for the fish and worms.

10. How to cultivate red worms for feeding fish?

How to cultivate bloodworms for fish feeding:

1. Red worms like to live in fertile water with slow flow. Late spring and early autumn every year is the season when red worms reproduce in large numbers. They float on the water surface, often making the water surface brown-red. This is an excellent opportunity to collect red worms.

2. When breeding a small amount of bloodworms at home, you can take the river pond sludge together with the bloodworms and put them in a basin or glass container. It is best to soak them with river water. If you use tap water for breeding, you should dry the tap water for 2 to 3 days in advance to remove bleach and other substances. Change the water every other day. In winter, you need to prevent freezing and put a wet red cloth on the container to keep it moist.

3. It is best to use a container with a larger area in contact with the air, because the red worms will float to the water surface and make breathing-like movements, so if there are too many of them, some of them may not be able to compete for a position and die.

4. Light source is necessary for raising red worms. The light source cannot be turned off at night. You can use a small light source (such as a 5w night light, etc.) at night. Because red worms are too lazy to breathe, if there is no light source, they will die easily the next day.

5. There are specialized breeding farms, most of which ferment rice bran, sawdust, banana peels, bagasse, sludge, pigeon droppings, etc. to make breeding feed. For home breeding of red worms, you can use yeast powder soaked in water to feed them, but the amount must be controlled.

6. When the number of red worms increases, they should be collected and dried in time. In late autumn and winter, the reproduction capacity of red worms is greatly weakened. In winter, when you can't see the red worms in the water tank, don't pour out the water in the tank, because they are hiding in the green algae. You can put the water tank in a sunny room or near the radiator. In spring, when the indoor temperature rises, the red worms come out again. When the room temperature rises to above 28℃, the red worms begin to reproduce in large numbers.