Hi, I have been cultivating woodlices to supplement my crabs for sometimes. The woodlices were obtained from a leave litter from my workplace. I had recently taken to feeding the woodlice coffee grounds from my expresso and have noticed an explosion of a worm resembling grindal worms infesting the coffee grounds. I have never cultured grindal worms and I do wonder if grindal worms are found in Singapore's ecosystem. I extracted a sample of it and is culturing it in a medium of coffee grounds, and it has exploded in a week. I haven't fed it to any fish yet, but will like to share my experience on this forum.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and he will drink beer while getting sunburnt.
I also maintain a small culture of "original" grindal worms (Enchytraeus buchholzi) and from what i've read about them, they are just one of the many species of annelid worms... so i guess the ones you found could be a related species (or they might even be grindal worms, since they could appear anywhere in the world too).
You could probably try test feeding them to fishes and see if they are suitable as a cultured live food. Also test and see if they can survive underwater too.
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Apologies for the late reply, but was busy working and the culture died off after months of neglect, or so I thought. Last week, threw in a bunch of coffee grounds into the base container and they started burgeoning out of the ground and multiplying again. The pictures above shows them after about a week with some fish food. Pretty tough no?
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and he will drink beer while getting sunburnt.
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