Easiest Live Food Culture for Fish - How to Culture Vinegar Eels

Hi all,

In todays video I run you through the easiest live fish food to culture at home.

Vinegar Eels are cheap and easy, super low maintenance and so accessible it doesn't make sense not to have some.

Culturing Vinegar Eels will make feeding small fry much easier. and cleaner and many fry require small foods like vinegar eels as a first food such as rainbowfish, tetras, danios and more.

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[StevenDavisPhoto]

I love the 80's style music when your logo shows up at the beginning. Haha.

[twilightgardenspresentatio]

I could use a feeder culture playlist from your videos- like a refresher for going over my feeders and getting better, cleaner and faster at it

[FishmanEricRussell]

Hey Blake! One of my favorite cultures. So simple and great for those starter fry

[DanielKeepingFish]

Super good easy fry food.
Great tutorial mate.

[edstar]

love checking out YouTube wondering what I'm gonna watch and there's a video from you.Great video. Easy to follow. thank! 😀

[calebwatson]

Thank you Blake! I think I need try these.

[laurab]

Thanks for the tips, I will try this method as I usually only used filter floss and it kept ok sinking to the bottom of the container.

[DIYMick]

Inspired. mate. Aaron has some cultures, but i never paid much attention. Having issues with my microworms at the moment in the cold so might switch to these.

[helengardner]

Hi Blake,
Just received a culture of vinegar eels but the bag they came in was leaking all over the place.
Anyways, set up the solution for them & dumped them in. However, the next day there was a whitish sediment on the bottom of the bottle I put them in. I have used a magnifier & flashlight & can't detect any movement in the bottle. Are they all dead & just laying on the bottom. Thanks for any help you can offer. 😊

[CrowntailHalfmoon]

Awesome advice Sir 👍
Can you explain if you use pure acv or acv x water?
Additionally can you use regular white vinegar instead of acv?
Can you do a video tutorial using white vinegar to test if Vinegar eels will flourish and get a successful colony?

[michaelgill]

When you add the water for the eels to swim up through for you to collect the eels. Does that water mix with the vinger fluid

[leoo]

can vinegar eels culture get mold and go bad or is the white stuff the mother forming ?

[censusgary]

It looks like you use 100% cider vinegar as your culture medium. Most of the instructions I’ve seen say to use a 50/50 mix of vinegar and water.

[RyanStonedonCanadianGaming]

Could vinegar eels have the potential to change your water pH?
I find microworm cultures alot more easier.

[roman]

How to keep breeding eel from the same bottle

[drblack]

Hmmm... Wonder who might send me a starter

[censusgary]

Vinegar eels actually eat “mother of vinegar, ” not the apple. The mother of vinegar eats the apple, so to speak, and the eels eat the mother.

Mother of vinegar is any of various AAB (acetic acid bacteria) species, usually along with some kind of yeast. There may be multiple species of both AAB and yeast in just one mother culture.