Vinegar Eels, 500ml Bag
Turbatrix Aceti Vinegar Eels are a perfect live food for young fish and small amphibians. This product contains 500 ml (50/50) of a vinegar and water mixture. Care instruction: Vinegar Eels are best cultivated in cider vinegar but any other vinegar is also suitable. Mix the vinegar and the water to about 50:50 and fill it in a 2L bottle or the Glass Jar purchasable from this site. That would be 1L vinegar and 1L water for a good going vinegar eel culture. Add 2 tea spoons of sugar and a few yeast crumbs to make the culture even more productive. To harvest vinegar eels: Pour the eels through a coffee filter or fold a sheet of kitchen paper towels and pour them through. Let them drip of properly and feed them to your fish. (easiest method) Fill part of the culture into a smaller bottle, stuff a bit of cotton wool in the neck of the bottle, just above the vinegar, and put a few drops of fresh water on top of the wool. After a short while an oxygen shortage will develop under the cotton wool and the eels will make their way up through the cotton. When enough eels are gathered on top you can collect them with a small spoon. Another way is to wash the wool in a small container with water and pour the water into your breeding tank. Or if you have a piece of Styrofoam, cut it into a square and cut a whole in the middle. Squeeze the wool directly into the square. The Styrofoam will float on the water and the worms will slowly fall to the ground. But make sure there is not much vinegar or wool sinking into the water. Turn the wool so the vinegar is on top and the worms are at the bottom. Tiny fish get entangled in the wool easily. Vinegar Eels are tough but you should split them and make a fresh culture every 10 to 12 weeks in order to keep them going. Older cultures can easily be reactivated with a teaspoon of sugar and yeast. Don't seal the lid. Poke a hole in the lid or leave it loose on top of the bottle otherwise the eels will suffocate. If the fish are not eating all of the eels right away, no problem. They can survive at least 2 days in a fish tank.