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No, Not my tank. Don't be ridiculous. I use an undergravel filter so it can't crash.  :eek:

My white worm culture crashed.   :wacko:

I think it may be ten years old and the worms are disappearing. They may be to inbred or have a social disease. I am not sure what it is but after the last worm bath, they started to disappear. I looked al over for them even in my wife's underwear drawer but they are no where to be found.  :why:

I did find a lot of things hatching into what looks like fruit flies, but they must be "worm flies". I put the culture outside so the neighbors could sample some of the flies.
I still l have worms but they are small.   :cry:

If I get time, I will flood the entire culture and collect the worms that I can and start a new batch with new potting soil. Maybe after so many years, you need to do that.

Actually, now that I think about it. I did that a couple of months ago. Maybe the soil I used has A 1 Steak Sauce or transmission fluid from a 1967 Ford Pinto in it. Anyway, I will go look for different dirt and try to rescue my remaining worms. I need the worms for the bacteria so this is a crucial part of my system.   :smokin:

(Many people were hoping my tank crashed, this way they could say, See!!! you should have quarantined.  :biggrin:

 

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Maybe one of these days I'll try my hand at worms (or any live food); always been interested just haven't had the desire to maintain it (I'm a lazy son of a gun sometimes). 

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What do you mean by this statement " I need the worms for the bacteria so this is a crucial part of my system. " How do they add beneficial bacteria to your system that otherwise would not be introduced via frozen foods? What kind of worms are they?

 

Worms are not exactly normal food for marine life... do they provide the proper levels of nutrients or do you augment with other food too? I'd be willing to give worms a shot. Just never heard of it and a bit confused.

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Realypk, I mean that I run a natural, un quarantined system that is 48 years old and that only happens if you have different bacterias and parasites living in the tank with the fish.  These white worms live in dirt and are fed yogurt with pro biotics and nutritional yeast.  I have always "supplemented" my food with live food as I know there is living bacteria in it as opposed to commercially available frozen food which has some living bacteria but the stuff you buy for fish food is frozen much colder than your home refrigerator and sometimes it is irradiated to kill bacteria and parasites.  But I want those things.

 

Some of my fish are 28 years old and none of my fish have ever been sick.  All the paired fish spawn and I never have to worry about anything not eating, dying or getting sick.  They all die of old age. 

It is not just the nutrients in the worms, it's the bacteria I want.  The rest of their food is clams, mysis and LRS food. 

I have written many articles on fish food and even published a book.

Here is a thread on here about it

 

Here are some articles I wrote about worms. 

http://www.saltwatersmarts.com/want-healthy-spawning-fish-feed-them-properly-5010/

 

http://www.saltwatersmarts.com/marine-fish-heal-through-slime-3962/

 

http://www.saltwatersmarts.com/feeding-blackworms-healthy-marine-fish-whiteworms-3124/

http://www.saltwatersmarts.com/seasoned-saltys-marine-aquarium-success-2966/

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