Starter Culture - Grindal Worms (Perfect live food for adults and juveniles)
Starter Culture - Grindal Worms (Perfect live food for adults and juveniles)
Starter Culture - Grindal Worms (Perfect live food for adults and juveniles)
Starter Culture - Grindal Worms (Perfect live food for adults and juveniles)
Starter Culture - Grindal Worms (Perfect live food for adults and juveniles)

Starter Culture - Grindal Worms (Perfect live food for adults and juveniles)

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Grindal worms (Enchytraeus buchholzi) are a small white non-parasitic worm that lives in soils around the world. They are similar to White worms that are commonly used by other aquarists as a source of food for their fish. However, these worms are smaller than White worms and their care differs slightly. Grindal worms are a great food source to feed your young fry and adult fish that stay under a couple of inches. This species was discovered by Mrs.Morten Grindal of Sweden who was attempting to improve her White worm culture and stumbled upon these small worms by accident.

So, you might be thinking why should I bother with Grindal worms? What makes them a good food source for fishes? What I like about Grindal worms are that they are easy to take care of compared to other live food cultures. Most other food cultures tend to have special requirements and are more time intensive.

Grindal worms make a great food source for any picky fish that require live foods. There are two added benefits for using live foods. One of these benefits is the ability to gut load these guys with veggies and other food sources to help ensure that your fish have a mixed and varied diet. The other benefit is that live foods help induce breeding behaviors in fish. A lot of the time, the reason why your fish aren’t breeding is due to lack of a proper food source.

What you will receive is a starter culture in the form of a scour pad, this will have enough worms to start 1 culture like in the instructions.

Please see Photos for instructions on how to culture.

Due to our cultures being kept outside they might also contain fruitfly mites and black soldier fly larvae . These are harmless and also a good source of food for your fish.

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Akaysia

Easy to set up, these worms were slow to start but are now thriving. My fish love them and they’ve easily doubled in population in the last two or three days, one culture is enough to keep two bettas and ten guppies happily fed daily

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Bree-Anne Merlow
Excellent Healthy Culture Source

Bought two cultures of Grindal Worms. Both going strong. Thanks

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Tim Vue
Easy live food

I've only had the culture for 1 week and the population has grown pretty quickly. Have not yet fed them to any of my fish yet as I want the culture to grow a lot more before feeding. But I'm sure they would enjoy them very much. The photos are taken 7 days apart.

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C.T.

Awesome everything I expected

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Bree-Anne

Awesome amount of worms to start. I sadly ordered from somewhere else and after two weeks of just maggots showing up and no worms it was a dud. Nice to know I can reliably source these for my fish now. Very helpful customer service too as i had not done a culture before. Praise Blackwater Aquariums