[mordalphus]

During the early summer and early fall I culture them outdoors in rubbermaid ponds, millions, they really like maple leaf to eat.

Also, somehow a midge must have made it into my vivarium, because there are now midge larvae in there too

I don't think they mind light though, my outdoor ponds are in full sun all day

 

[mordalphus]

So would shrimp eat live blood worms? Just to tie this all together, seems like a really easy and cool idea.

I tried that, they didnt eat live ones. All of my fish love them though.

But, my fish like mosquito larvae more because they wiggle more, blood worms only wiggle in my aquarium until they find something to latch onto

 

[mordalphus]

I dont do anything special, i have noticed that when mosquitoes start appearing in my ponds, the blood worms disappear, so maybe mosquitos outcompete them.
I
will say, they do better in green water, when Iset up a new pond it takes a ehole year to start seeing bloodworms.

Also rainwater, they don't do so well with harder water.

 

[mordalphus]

And to catch them i use a large fish net and scrape the side of my ponds starting at the bttom and moving straight up. For some reason they spend most of their time with their butts attached to the side.