Vinegar eels are an aquatic nematode that are not eels, but do live in
vinegar. They are a couple of millimeters long and are very easily
cultured.
Take a one gallon glass jar, and add 5 parts water and 1 part cider
vinegar. Add a small piece (one eighth) of an apple and inoculate with
a starter culture. In a couple of weeks or so, you'll have a wriggling
mass
of "vinegar eels". They don't seem to care much about temperature
20 C / 70 F plus or minus quite a few degrees either way is fine.
To feed them to fish, siphon them out into a net that you've lines
with filter paper or a paper coffee filter. Siphon a bit of fresh
water over them once or twice to remove all the vinegar and
dip the paper into the tank.
Although primary used to feed fry, many small killifish (Diapterons,
etc.) can eat them their entire life.
You'll need to be careful as you'll gather hundreds of not
thousands when you siphon them out, and you don't want to overfeed.
They'll
live for a while, but not forever, in fresh water.
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