Live blackworms available in Austin

[Victor M. Martinez]

I ordered 1 lb of live California blackworms on aquabid and I've realized
they're too many! If you live in Austin and would like to buy some of
these to feed your fish, I'll sell them to you at cost ($2/oz). Fish go
crazy eating these and they will not foul in your tank if left uneaten.

Victor M. Martinez

http://www.che.utexas.edu/~martiv

[TYNK 7]

>Subject: Live blackworms available in Austin
>From: "Victor M. Martinez"
>Date: 10/8/2003 10:17 AM Central Daylight Time
>Message-id: . edu>
>
>I ordered 1 lb of live California blackworms on aquabid and I've realized
>they're too many! If you live in Austin and would like to buy some of
>these to feed your fish, I'll sell them to you at cost ($2/oz). Fish go
>crazy eating these and they will not foul in your tank if left uneaten.
>
>Victor M. Martinez

>http://www.che.utexas.edu/~marti

Be very careful with live Blackworms, as they regularly carry disease.

[Toni]

"TYNK 7" > wrote in message
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>
> Be very careful with live Blackworms, as they regularly carry disease.



A good source is your best protection- it's not like tubifex used to be.

From Simply Discus-

Dr. Drewes
Professor of Zoology and Genetics specializing in Lumbriculus notes:
"Thanks for your message and questions. I consulted with a
professor-colleague here, who is an expert fish parasitologist, and he tells
me that parasites ( several species of which certainly do infect fish) DO
NOT use any intermediate host ( such as oligochaete worms or any other
species) to harbor and transmit the parasite. Instead, one fish can directly
infect another fish by releasing the parasite into the water in its feces
and then by another fish ingesting the parasite. So, transmission is like
Giardia, in respect, and involves only a single host and no intermediate
hosts. So, your concerns about Hexamita infection occurring from worms
themselves is not warranted. Of course, the water that the worms were in
might be a potential concern if it was water that came from infected water.
To be " safer " when you feed worms to the fish, you couls rinse and drain
the worms several times in distilled water to help flush away any fish
feces. I might add, that if the fish feces were consumed by the worms, then
I supect that any Hexamita therin would most likely get fully gigested in
the worm gut. As I mentioned, there is no evidence of invertebrates being an
intermediate host for Hexamita. I verified this information through a search
of research publications using the Biological Abstracts data base.
In regard to your questions about blackworms and tubifex worms...they are
both oligochaete worms, but they are quite different in terms of taxonomy,
ecolgy, and biology. Tubifex is most abundant in habitats where there is
silty mud and organic and thermal pollution. Lumbriculus (blackworms) orefer
more pristine habitats. Blood Worms are insect larvae. See
http://www.dph.nl/sub-article/cat-01/bloodworms.shtml
<http://www.dph.nl/sub-article/cat-01/bloodworms.shtml>"

http://www.simplydiscus.com/forum/index.php?board=3;action=display;threadid=957
Third post from the top.


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Toni
http://www.cearbhaill.com/aquarium.htm

[Victor M. Martinez]

TYNK 7 > wrote:
>Be very careful with live Blackworms, as they regularly carry disease.

Not these ones: http://aquaticfoods.com/worms.html

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Victor M. Martinez

http://www.che.utexas.edu/~martiv