How to Raise Predatory Nematodes +Rep

FLoJo

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ok guys, so i got some predatory nematodes and i love these little buggers!

so my question is i still have a sponge with 1 million of them on there and i want to figure out how to cultivate them so that i can harvest a larger population and give them to my local friends. its like 20 bucks for 1 million of em so i figure with a decent sized container i could easily raise a stable population and be able to hook people up with em when they need.

i was wondering if anyone knows or has any information on how they are cultivated, what media is used etc. also how they harvest them in order to get them on the sponges they send out?

i am assuming they are in some kind of dark room with like a moist stone or something and raised in a petri dish setting.. just drop in live insects and they feed and multipy then can be scraped up and watered down..

i donno seems pretty interesting and i cannot find any information on google so i figured a few people might know something about em..

+rep to anyone with info

FLo
 

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ok guys, so i got some predatory nematodes and i love these little buggers!

so my question is i still have a sponge with 1 million of them on there and i want to figure out how to cultivate them so that i can harvest a larger population and give them to my local friends. its like 20 bucks for 1 million of em so i figure with a decent sized container i could easily raise a stable population and be able to hook people up with em when they need.

i was wondering if anyone knows or has any information on how they are cultivated, what media is used etc. also how they harvest them in order to get them on the sponges they send out?

i am assuming they are in some kind of dark room with like a moist stone or something and raised in a petri dish setting.. just drop in live insects and they feed and multipy then can be scraped up and watered down..

i donno seems pretty interesting and i cannot find any information on google so i figured a few people might know something about em..

+rep to anyone with info

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FLoJo

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it would definitely be a cool little project. they do some damage to fungus gnats for sure. i put them in the soil and they have cleared up my problem pretty well.. another thing i did which worked surprisingly well was put crushed garlic in my res which surprisingly worked really well
 
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