Vinegar Eels (Live Fish Food)



Vinegar Eels Culture Package (S$10)

Inclusive of these:

- Squarish plastic tub (16cm x 16cm x 6cm)

- Plastic pipette

- A small plastic container of fine white sugar

- A 250ml bottle (filled with Vinegar Eels starter culture)



Vinegar Eels

(I kept mine in glass jars, top covered with plastic poked with

fine holes to allow ventilation, and to keep flies out)

Vinegar eels are easily-cultivated live fish food, a great source of food for fries and can even be fed to small adult fish. Bigger fish might not be appropriate since the eels will probably be too small for them to see. You can always have a culture or two going in case your fish decides to spawn. It has been reported widely that feeding live food instead of powdered or flake food the first few days will aid rapid growth and fine development. They are also less likely to pollute the water since they will most probably stay alive, and be eaten even before they start to decompose. However, they should be fed sparingly 5-6 times a day to fries in small quantities, in case of overfeeding. As I have a hectic working schedule, I feed my fries around 2-3 times each day. I start feeding them microworms and vinegar eels the moment they are born. When they get slightly bigger, I feed them a wider variety of food which consists of crushed powdery flakes, micro pellets, microworms, vinegar eels and sometimes newly-hatched brine shrimps (nauplii).

*All fish should be fed a variety of food. When feeding tubifex worms to fish, do wash them thoroughly*

Harvesting:
- You can use coffee filter paper, to filter out the vinegar eels. They will remain on the filter paper, which can then be fed to the tiny fries. You can pour back the vinegar back to the culture container.

- or, like the above picture, get a long-necked bottle, a rolled-up filter floss, a sturdy string/line:
Step one: roll up a fiter floss, and tie a line/string firmly to it.
Step two: stuff it down until the base of the long-neck.
step three: pour water into it till close to the brim.
step four: wait for half a day or a day, and you can harvest with a pipette.
step five: pour in water again. After some time the vinegar eels can be harvested again.

*The above method is amazing. It is always very fun and interesting every time I harvest*