Feeding Fancy Goldfish small red garden worms -any problems

[Tim Young]

Are there any precautions I should take before feeding fresh red garden
worms (size 2 to 5 cm / 1 to 2 inches long) from my compost bin to my fancy
goldfish? The fish are between 8 and 12 cm / 3 and 5 inches long, and in an
aquarium. I normally feed them dried sinking food, live or frozen blood
worms, fresh Courgettes (zucchinis) and orange slices.
Thanks, Tim.

[Köi-Lö]

"Tim Young" > wrote in message
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> Are there any precautions I should take before feeding fresh red garden
> worms (size 2 to 5 cm / 1 to 2 inches long) from my compost bin to my
> fancy
> goldfish? The fish are between 8 and 12 cm / 3 and 5 inches long, and in
> an
> aquarium. I normally feed them dried sinking food, live or frozen blood
> worms, fresh Courgettes (zucchinis) and orange slices.
> Thanks, Tim.
>
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I feed mine small worms and grubs from the compost pile and never had a
problem. I cut them in bite size pieces first.
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[ojnemo]

Tim Young wrote:
> Are there any precautions I should take before feeding fresh red garden
> worms (size 2 to 5 cm / 1 to 2 inches long) from my compost bin to my fancy
> goldfish? The fish are between 8 and 12 cm / 3 and 5 inches long, and in an
> aquarium. I normally feed them dried sinking food, live or frozen blood
> worms, fresh Courgettes (zucchinis) and orange slices.
> Thanks, Tim.

[Marco Schwarz]

Hi..

> Are there any precautions I should take before feeding
> fresh red garden worms (size 2 to 5 cm / 1 to 2 inches
> long) from my compost bin to my fancy goldfish? The fish
> are between 8 and 12 cm / 3 and 5 inches long, and in an
> aquarium.

Before feeding keep them 1-2 days in a lockable box filled
with some wet kitchen roll..

BTW: Earthworms are fat and no every day food..
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cu
Marco

[swarvegorilla]

"Tim Young" > wrote in message
...
> Are there any precautions I should take before feeding fresh red garden
> worms (size 2 to 5 cm / 1 to 2 inches long) from my compost bin to my
> fancy
> goldfish? The fish are between 8 and 12 cm / 3 and 5 inches long, and in
> an
> aquarium. I normally feed them dried sinking food, live or frozen blood
> worms, fresh Courgettes (zucchinis) and orange slices.
> Thanks, Tim.
>

mate thats a great diet and I'm sure the goldfish will love the worms.
one trick is to freeze them and chop up with scissors in a cup.
They certainly prefer them live but for smaller fish or where ya want them
onhand frozen is good.
Some things like lizzards may get constipated by earthworms but fish in
water have few problems.
Maybe get some more peas into them, but aside from that I recon they are
good.
The ponds I have given treats from the garden to have never suffered any
adverse reaction I can think of.
don't get bugs of poisonus bushes seems to be the main rule.
earthworms are safe tho,
apparently for people but definitely for fish
It's what people in the hobby fed their fish before 'fish food'
ok so they also had bug larvae like wrigglers and bloodworms
but worms were held in high esteem for feeding everything from goldys,
paradise fish and even discus.
:-)