Vinegar Eel Culture 50ml

Easily start your own vinegar eel colony with this 50ml live starter culture.

Perfect for feeding baby fish and providing live food in aquariums, this culture is simple to maintain and comes in a convenient resealable pouch.

Great for aquarists looking to enrich their fish diet and promote healthy growth.

Growing up to 50 microns in diameter and 1 to 2 mm in length, they are one of the smallest and easiest live foods to culture for baby fish.

Breeders commonly feed them to newborn betta fish, killifish, rainbowfish, and other fry that require miniscule foods even smaller than baby brine shrimp (which hatch out at 450 microns in size).

Vinegar eels have many other advantages that make them ideal for feeding fish fry. Unlike banana worms and other micro worms, they can survive for several days in fresh water, they swim around in the water column instead of sinking straight to the bottom, and their wiggling motions entice babies to eat more and grow faster.

Vinegar eels aren’t necessarily as nutritious as baby brine shrimp (which are born with rich yolk sacs), but they’re an excellent food to feed until the fry have grown large enough to eat baby brine shrimp.

Please see our advice and care information section for maintaining a vinegar eel culture. Click here