CATDOLL : CATDOLL: Is it easy to raise red worms?

1. Are red worms easy to raise?

Yes, bloodworms, also known as "water fleas" and "water earthworms", are commonly known as "worm fish". People who love goldfish often feed goldfish with bloodworms to make them grow faster. Bloodworms are the best bait for fish, containing high protein, and are also one of the popular foods on foreign tables in recent years, comparable to snails. Bloodworms are neither fish nor insects. They are a type of plankton that lives in fresh water and often jumps in the water.

How to raise red worms:

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 a great opportunity for us to collect red worms.

2. When raising 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 surface of the water 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 reduced. In winter, when the red worms are not seen in the water tank, do not pour out the water in the tank, because they are hiding in the green algae. We 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.

2. How to breed red worms?

Step/Method 1

When breeding red worms, prepare a glass container, put the selected red worms into it, and then inject clean and sterile natural water. If you want to use tap water for breeding, it is best to expose the tap water to the sun for 2-3 days to remove the chlorine in it to prevent poor growth of the red worms.

Step/Method 2

Control light source

The growth of red worms cannot be separated from light. Lack of light source will cause the red worms to have difficulty breathing and suffocate to death. When breeding, it is best to hang a 5-watt light bulb above the container to provide the red worms with sufficient light, allowing them to breathe freely and grow healthily.

Step/Method 3

Water quality control

When breeding red worms, the water should be changed once a day to keep the water clean. In the process of changing the water, the red worms and the container should be cleaned to remove the mucus to avoid the breeding of bacteria. The breeding water depth should be controlled at about 3-5 cm, and the water level should be deepened at night to keep warm.

Step/Method 4

Feeding. Red worms mainly feed on organic debris in the soil, and they particularly like sweet and acidic baits. Poultry manure, domestic sewage, etc. are all their baits. In professional farms, rice bran, sawdust, sludge, pigeon manure and other raw materials are generally fermented to make feed. If it is a family farm, yeast powder can be soaked in water and fed. Feeding is also a key point in red worm production. Feeding in small amounts and multiple times can increase production. Generally, feeding is done once every 3-4 days, and 50 to 100 kilograms of manure is fed per mu each time. It is mixed with water and sprinkled throughout the pond. When feeding, pay attention to the amount of residual bait, and do not blindly feed more, so as to avoid excessive organic matter in the water body causing fermentation to produce toxic substances, affecting production.

3. How to breed red worms?

1. Red worm collection

Red worms like to live in fertile water with slow water flow, and the water depth is generally about 0.5 meters. Every year in late spring and early autumn, it is the season for red worms to reproduce in large numbers. Red worms float on the water surface, often making the water surface brown-red, and people can easily find them. Red worms can be collected all year round in southern my country, and they are easier to collect in spring and autumn. Before collecting, prepare the collection net and cover the net mouth with a layer of plastic green yarn. The mesh of the green yarn is just enough for the red worms to pass through. In this way, when collecting, it can prevent water plants and other debris from entering the net.

2. Container selection

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.

3. Change the water

When breeding a small number 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 impurities. Change the water every other day.

4. Rinse

First, you need to wash the basin. Every time you change the water, after pouring the insects into the sieve, you need to clean the basin with clean water. At this time, there will be some sticky mucus on the basin, which makes it sticky. Wash all of this off and rinse the basin clean. Second, you need to wash the insects. Take some water from the basin and rinse the insects in the sieve with water to wash off the mucus and dirt on the insects.

5. Feeding

Specialized farms mostly ferment rice bran, sawdust, banana peels, bagasse, sludge, pigeon droppings, etc. to make feed. For home-breeding red worms, you can feed them with yeast powder soaked in water, but the amount must be controlled.

6. Harvesting and storage

When the number of red worms increases, they should be collected in time and dried for storage. You can wash the red worms and put them in a wet cloth, then put them in a clean disposable lunch box and put them in a dark and ventilated place at home (shady balcony). Basically, you can take them out every one or two days to rinse them with water and sift out the dead worms. It is not a problem to keep them for a month or so.

4. How long can red worms survive in water?

Bloodworms can live for one to two weeks in water. They are larvae of the Chironomid family, worm-like in shape and dark red in color. They are widely distributed and are a natural bait for fish. They have high nutritional value, especially for tropical fish.

It originally lived in sewage. If you want to keep it in clean water, you need to control the water level, not to exceed 1 cm, and change it every two days.

5. Is it easy to raise red worms artificially?

Easy to raise

Bloodworm breeding: Bloodworms are also called water earthworms, which are actually the larvae of chironomids. They live in river and pond mud, but require flowing and clean water.

Blood worms are the best bait for fish and are high in protein. They are often fermented from rice bran, sawdust, banana peels, bagasse, silt, pigeon manure, etc. to make breeding feed.

When breeding a small amount of red worms at home, you can take the river pond sludge together with the worms and put them in a clay pot or glass container. It is best to soak them with river water. If you use tap water to breed, you should put the tap water in a large pot for 2-3 days in advance to remove bleach and other substances before use. Change the water every other day. (You can also store the container in the refrigerator).

6. What’s the simplest way to raise red worms?

1. Find a potato and cut it in half at the third part.

2. Hollow out the potatoes, but don't dig through the bottom.

3. Put the unused red worms into the hollowed-out potatoes.

4. Insert two toothpicks into the beans, close the potatoes and tighten them with toothpicks.

After completing the above steps, place them in the refrigerator. Since potatoes have a high starch content, they will not starve to death and can remain fresh for a week or even longer at low temperatures. A simple and practical method for raising red worms.

7. How should the red worms used for fishing be managed to ensure their longest survival time? How long can they survive at most?

You want to never run out of red worms.

Buy red worms, regardless of size, dig some soil from the river, put it in a container, then put the red worms in, and use river water to raise the red worms. You don't need to put in too much water, so that the red worms can reproduce on their own.

The temperature cannot be too low, and the lowest cannot exceed about seven or eight degrees. The breeding temperature of red worms is about 25 degrees, but they cannot be placed under the sun.

The red worms raised in this way are large, plump, and have a very high survival rate.

(The best container is to buy a small tank and use it to raise the fish. If you can raise them for a year, then you will have an inexhaustible supply. Fellow anglers may wish to give it a try. The water does not need to be changed frequently. If there are aquatic plants, put some more aquatic plants to increase the dissolved oxygen content in the water).

8. How can red worms survive longer?

1. Potato preservation method

The method is very simple. Find a larger potato (or carrot), split it in the middle, hollow out the inside with a spoon, put the red worms in, cover it with the other half and secure it with a toothpick, then wrap it with a wet towel and put it in a cool place.

This method is the most common and easy to operate. Some anglers have reported that they can store red worms for a month.