Keeping tubifex worms alive

Thanks for info Good Discovery..!!

[sriwonc]

Bro ........Very interesting

[bettafantastic]

Anyone knows how to culture tubi? Cant find much good info on the net

Thank you, John for this useful tips around how to keep tubifex alive before feeding it to bettas. I kind of modify a little bit the procedure.
I use black water ice cube to fill the water into a plastic ice cream packing.
I only let the ice melt and those tubifex will spread over the floor trying to reach the 3 - 5 mm melted black water.
I wash those tubifex once a day so that the dead and the stench be spilled out.
Simply by filling the containment with aged water, shake al little and spill it out bit by bit. Nice...after 5 days i can keep them alive. Only a few are dead, it's a reasonable loss though. Those tubifex who's unfit enough to endure the day will die out. Only minor losses. Thank you for your nice tips and i also would like to thank those who comments later and contributing another usefull tips as well.

When you use aged water from a large bucket stored for days even weeks outside the house can prevent tubifex against sudden mass death. Just put them sinking inside a bucket filled with the fresh clean aged water. Water level can be anything higher than the tubifex thick clump mass. This way i can keep them alive for months without ketapang leaf water or black water. Oh, by the way, fill the aged water bucket with water from air conditioner drippings in case of your home tap water cannot be used due to high level of chlorine substance. It is recommended to constantly change the aged water everyday as yesterday's water can always be filthy with tubifex bodily waste.

Thanks for the info its very useful

[qwerty99]

actually tubifex living environment is like is mud. Where do people get tubifex from? Actually they got it from riverbed

Good information, I used to have trouble keeping them alive when I had them as a kid to feed my fishes.. Will try out this method once i got the fishes...

[vulk]

i put my tubi in tau-huay container, and jus let it float about on the surface of my fish tank that is indoors. cos the temp of my indoor tank is quite cooling, so it keeps the tubi container cool oso...

thanks to all who contributed to this! my tubi can now last up to the last wriggling piece.