{"id":6507419269,"title":"Banana Worms (Large Producing Cultures) 8 oz.","handle":"banana-worms-large-producing-cultures-8-oz","description":"\u003ch4\u003eYou will receive:   \u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e(1) 8 oz. bag of Banana Worms and culture media\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff2a00;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease Note:  Heat Pack is required if daytime temperature is below 50F.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTo save on  shipping multiple orders, click on drop down window above.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003e\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eThis is not a starter culture but a conditioned, producing banana worm culture.  You can start using the banana worms as live food immediately and make many more cultures from it.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eWe recommend our special \"\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/insectsales.com\/collections\/tiny-worm-cultures\/products\/crazy-stuff-worm-formula-2-lbs-for-white-worms-micro-banana-walter-worms\" title=\"Worm Formula\"\u003eWorm Formula\u003c\/a\u003e\" available online.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eThis is an excellent food for your banana worms.  It gives them the right kind of nourishment to help them grow very quickly and reproduce faster.  Simply add aged or boiling water to the formula and when it reaches room temperature add active yeast (small package included) a ripe banana and then some of your banana worms from your existing cultures.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eBanana Worms Background:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003ePanagrellus Nepenthicola or Banana Worm is actually not a worm at all, but called a worm because of their minute size and worm like appearance. Banana Worms are actually a species of nematode, which grows on average to 1\/16 of an inch or less; a little smaller in size than the micro worm. They are a slightly more productive worm than the micro worms. They are very tiny, and if you can’t see very close you might just miss them. Banana Worms are white-clear and have a worm like shape and movement. Banana worms are non-parasitic and live off of the bacteria and yeast from the banana culture medium. They live for about 35 days and a female banana worm can have 60 offspring a day at around 4 days old.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eBanana Worms can live at temperature room temperatures, and optimum reproduction rate is at about 68-85F degrees.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eWhy Banana Worms?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eBanana Worms are one of the best foods to start out for your newly hatched fish fry like killifish, guppies, betas, gouramis, tetra, barbs, danios, and many others. They are more size appropriate (1\/16 inch or less) for very small fry that are not able to eat baby brine shrimp or micro worms. Banana Worms reproduce faster than micro worms, which make them easier to culture faster if you are short on time. Baby brine shrimp are often too large for some newly hatched fish fry to eat in the first couple weeks of life. Also, baby brine shrimp are harder to rear due to temperature, salinity, and growth restrains.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eBanana Worms are perfect for rearing at room temperatures. Also, you don’t have to worry about rinsing the salt off of your worms. Simply a Q-tip or a small clean paintbrush, and remove the worms from the sides of your container. Removing banana worms from the sides will reduce debris contamination. Then, take your Q-tip or small paintbrush, and rinse it in your fish tank.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eRemember over feeding of any food can cause a loss in a whole fry batch. The good thing about banana worms is that they can live in a tank of water for over 12 hours. Also, you don’t have to worry about banana worms getting too big for your new fish fry.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eBanana Worms are easy to culture at home for a never ending supple of newly hatched fry food.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eHow to culture Banana Worms:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eThere are several ways to culture Banana Worms, you just have to be able to meet their environmental needs. The container we provided for you, which your Banana worms are in, is only a temporary home for shipping purposes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eFirst, you will need a container or two to hold your worms in. Plastic transparent containers work best, like an old ice cream tub or deli container. The container must have a tight fitting lid. They are not picky about opacity because they don’t mind the dark. You will need to puncture some small breathing holes in the lid only. Banana worms need oxygen to survive, but we need to keep out other pests from our Banana worm culture. It’s a fact Banana worms stink, but they are supposed to stink because they live and eat off of bacteria and yeast. This smell can cause other creatures (like flies) to want into your culture. The easiest way to keep the flies out is to put a paper towel down under the lid when you close the container. The towel will allow for air exchange, but keep the pests out.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eNOTE: Always allow your grain mixture to cool. Any hot temperatures will KILL your Banana worms.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0407\/0261\/files\/WE_Quick_Ship2.fw_8c041c24-2f55-41fb-a80d-1a07fb1d1e00_compact.png?v=1470159405\" alt=\"We Quick Ship\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2016-10-21T01:15:00-04:00","created_at":"2016-10-21T01:21:10-04:00","vendor":"Insect Sales.com","type":"","tags":["Aquatic Tropical Fish"],"price":999,"price_min":999,"price_max":3999,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":32529039163471,"title":"Click Here to Add Additional Orders - Save on Shipping at Checkout","option1":"Click Here to Add Additional Orders - 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Banana Worms are actually a species of nematode, which grows on average to 1\/16 of an inch or less; a little smaller in size than the micro worm. They are a slightly more productive worm than the micro worms. They are very tiny, and if you can’t see very close you might just miss them. Banana Worms are white-clear and have a worm like shape and movement. Banana worms are non-parasitic and live off of the bacteria and yeast from the banana culture medium. They live for about 35 days and a female banana worm can have 60 offspring a day at around 4 days old.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eBanana Worms can live at temperature room temperatures, and optimum reproduction rate is at about 68-85F degrees.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eWhy Banana Worms?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eBanana Worms are one of the best foods to start out for your newly hatched fish fry like killifish, guppies, betas, gouramis, tetra, barbs, danios, and many others. They are more size appropriate (1\/16 inch or less) for very small fry that are not able to eat baby brine shrimp or micro worms. Banana Worms reproduce faster than micro worms, which make them easier to culture faster if you are short on time. Baby brine shrimp are often too large for some newly hatched fish fry to eat in the first couple weeks of life. Also, baby brine shrimp are harder to rear due to temperature, salinity, and growth restrains.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eBanana Worms are perfect for rearing at room temperatures. Also, you don’t have to worry about rinsing the salt off of your worms. Simply a Q-tip or a small clean paintbrush, and remove the worms from the sides of your container. Removing banana worms from the sides will reduce debris contamination. Then, take your Q-tip or small paintbrush, and rinse it in your fish tank.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eRemember over feeding of any food can cause a loss in a whole fry batch. The good thing about banana worms is that they can live in a tank of water for over 12 hours. Also, you don’t have to worry about banana worms getting too big for your new fish fry.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eBanana Worms are easy to culture at home for a never ending supple of newly hatched fry food.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eHow to culture Banana Worms:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eThere are several ways to culture Banana Worms, you just have to be able to meet their environmental needs. The container we provided for you, which your Banana worms are in, is only a temporary home for shipping purposes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eFirst, you will need a container or two to hold your worms in. Plastic transparent containers work best, like an old ice cream tub or deli container. The container must have a tight fitting lid. They are not picky about opacity because they don’t mind the dark. You will need to puncture some small breathing holes in the lid only. Banana worms need oxygen to survive, but we need to keep out other pests from our Banana worm culture. It’s a fact Banana worms stink, but they are supposed to stink because they live and eat off of bacteria and yeast. This smell can cause other creatures (like flies) to want into your culture. The easiest way to keep the flies out is to put a paper towel down under the lid when you close the container. The towel will allow for air exchange, but keep the pests out.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eNOTE: Always allow your grain mixture to cool. Any hot temperatures will KILL your Banana worms.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0407\/0261\/files\/WE_Quick_Ship2.fw_8c041c24-2f55-41fb-a80d-1a07fb1d1e00_compact.png?v=1470159405\" alt=\"We Quick Ship\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e"}