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Ahhh, The Power of Bloodworms
Hello, while in a local fish store, I saw some bloodworms and decided,
what the heck I'll see if the fish like them. Well, when I came home I put some bloodworms into the tanks and WOW! The fish went nuts ver the bloodworms. They (the fish) are showing great color. My fish just love the bloodworms, I am going back next week to pick up some Tubifex Worms. If you are contemplating whether to give your fish something besides flakes, pellets and wafers, give them a treat of different foods, see what they like. Evan Davis |
Ahhh, The Power of Bloodworms
|| Hello, while in a local fish store, I saw some bloodworms and
|| decided, what the heck I'll see if the fish like them. Well, when I || came home I put some bloodworms into the tanks and WOW! The fish || went nuts ver the bloodworms. They (the fish) are showing great || color. My fish just love the bloodworms, I am going back next week || to pick up some Tubifex Worms. If you are contemplating whether to || give your fish something besides flakes, pellets and wafers, give || them a treat of different foods, see what they like. || || Evan Davis The only fish I've seen enjoy tubifex is kuhli loaches.... unless someone else has better info, I skip them entirely.. -- | RedForeman ©® fabricator and creator of the ratbike streetfighter!!! | ========================== | 2003 TRX450ES | 1992 TRX-350 XX (For Sale) | '98 Tacoma Ext Cab 4X4 Lifted.... | ========================== | ø¤°`°¤ø,¸¸¸,ø¤°`°¤ø,¸¸¸,ø¤°`°¤ø,¸¸,ø¤°`°¤ø,¸¸¸,ø¤° `°¤ø,¸¸,ø¤°`°¤ø | ((((º`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸. ((((º ·´¯`·. , .·´¯`·.. ((((º | for any questions you may have.... | www.gmail.com |
Ahhh, The Power of Bloodworms
"RedForeman ©®" wrote in message ... || Hello, while in a local fish store, I saw some bloodworms and || decided, what the heck I'll see if the fish like them. Well, when I || came home I put some bloodworms into the tanks and WOW! The fish || went nuts ver the bloodworms. They (the fish) are showing great || color. My fish just love the bloodworms, I am going back next week || to pick up some Tubifex Worms. If you are contemplating whether to || give your fish something besides flakes, pellets and wafers, give || them a treat of different foods, see what they like. || || Evan Davis The only fish I've seen enjoy tubifex is kuhli loaches.... unless someone else has better info, I skip them entirely.. I agree nobody in my tank goes near them, and they would float around for days if left in there. Anyone wanna buy em! Haynes'ey. |
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Ahhh, The Power of Bloodworms
The only fish I've seen enjoy tubifex is kuhli loaches.... unless someone
else has better info, I skip them entirely.. My discus enjoy the freeze dried variety. I let the cube absorb water for a while and then crumble it between my fingers. They go manic for it. Regards Mark |
Ahhh, The Power of Bloodworms
Marksfish wrote:
The only fish I've seen enjoy tubifex is kuhli loaches.... unless someone else has better info, I skip them entirely.. My discus enjoy the freeze dried variety. I let the cube absorb water for a while and then crumble it between my fingers. They go manic for it. Regards Mark Yep, my fish enjoy them too. Khuli, angels, betta, gourami, tetra, all love them. I use the squidgy packs - not freeze dried, but not fresh - sealed in a little tear-the-corner pack that then gets squirted into tank. -- Velvet |
Ahhh, The Power of Bloodworms
On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 08:53:06 -0400, "RedForeman ©®"
wrote: || Hello, while in a local fish store, I saw some bloodworms and || decided, what the heck I'll see if the fish like them. Well, when I || came home I put some bloodworms into the tanks and WOW! The fish || went nuts ver the bloodworms. They (the fish) are showing great || color. My fish just love the bloodworms, I am going back next week || to pick up some Tubifex Worms. If you are contemplating whether to || give your fish something besides flakes, pellets and wafers, give || them a treat of different foods, see what they like. || || Evan Davis The only fish I've seen enjoy tubifex is kuhli loaches.... unless someone else has better info, I skip them entirely.. In our 45 gallon tropical everyone above substrate seems to love them. The Angelfish did, the danios, swords, guppies, neon tetras, and betta all do. The Clown loaches used to partake occassionally, too..... --Tony |
Ahhh, The Power of Bloodworms
Evan Davis wrote.....
Hello, while in a local fish store, I saw some bloodworms and decided, what the heck I'll see if the fish like them. Well, when I came home I put some bloodworms into the tanks and WOW! The fish went nuts ver the bloodworms. They (the fish) are showing great color. My fish just love the bloodworms, I am going back next week to pick up some Tubifex Worms. If you are contemplating whether to give your fish something besides flakes, pellets and wafers, give them a treat of different foods, see what they like. Evan Davis All my fish love bloodworms. It is the funniest thing watching the little cory's eating them too. They look like they are sticking out there tongues at ya. Even my discus will compete with the rest of the fish for them and eat out of my hand. Personally I think a varied diet is the best thing for fish. Would you want to eat the same thing day in and day out...:) Vicki |
While the fish love both, and while I make every effort to provide a
varied diet (ie I have three dry feeds, two pelleted, five frozen...) I never, ever, feed live tubifex or frozen bloodworms (chironomid larvae). Two reasons, firstly fish safety: Live tubifex is brimming with parasites. There's always tapeworm and sporozoa cysts in them, just waiting to get into the digestive tract of a fish. Most fish can handle it, but if the fish immunosystem gets depressed, from e.g. stress or high temperature, then the parasites may kill it. Frozen bloodworms (chironomid larvae) don't carry parasites in the same way, but it's a fatty food, and if the manufacturer and or LFS hasn't handled the food well (ie thawed the worms in a refrigerated room prior to packing and re-freezing) then they may well gone bad. And bad bloodworms cause dropsy. In fact I'd say it's the number one cause of dropsy, by a wide margin. If the bloodworms have been handled properly, it's good food, if they've not, they're pure death. Everyone is of course free to do as they please, but personally I don't take that gamble anymore, not after killing $150 worth of fish with bloodworms less than a year ago. There is also another reason not to use bloodworms: they may cause allergies in humans. This goes doubly for dried bloodworms, since the allergenic substances may then be inhaled as dust. Instead of these foods, when I want to condition fish, I feed shrimp meat, chopped earthworm, beefheart, and mosquito larvae. Neither live tubifex or frozen bloodworms are indispensible. (Also there is a confusion in this thread about what bloodworms _are_. Tubifex is NOT the same as bloodworms; tubifex are small aquatic earthworms, long and thin, while bloodworms are larvae of non-biting midges, shorter and plumper. Tubifex: http://www.akvariumas.lt/straipsniai...as/tubifex.jpg Bloodworms: http://www.ocean-adventures.org/imag...t/bloodwms.gif To add to this, the marine glycerid worms used for bait are often also called bloodworms: http://www.mainebait.com/bloodworm.html These are however much larger worms than either tubifex or chironomid larvae.) |
I know what you mean about the allergy thing...sheesh. Freeze dried blood
worms make me sneeze violently and my eyes water and itch severely. If I feed frozen bloodworms, I cant touch the inside of the bag nor the frozen worms with my hands/fingers. If I do, they swell up for about an hour. Good thing the little lady dont mind....lol "Mean_Chlorine" wrote in message om... While the fish love both, and while I make every effort to provide a varied diet (ie I have three dry feeds, two pelleted, five frozen...) I never, ever, feed live tubifex or frozen bloodworms (chironomid larvae). Two reasons, firstly fish safety: Live tubifex is brimming with parasites. There's always tapeworm and sporozoa cysts in them, just waiting to get into the digestive tract of a fish. Most fish can handle it, but if the fish immunosystem gets depressed, from e.g. stress or high temperature, then the parasites may kill it. Frozen bloodworms (chironomid larvae) don't carry parasites in the same way, but it's a fatty food, and if the manufacturer and or LFS hasn't handled the food well (ie thawed the worms in a refrigerated room prior to packing and re-freezing) then they may well gone bad. And bad bloodworms cause dropsy. In fact I'd say it's the number one cause of dropsy, by a wide margin. If the bloodworms have been handled properly, it's good food, if they've not, they're pure death. Everyone is of course free to do as they please, but personally I don't take that gamble anymore, not after killing $150 worth of fish with bloodworms less than a year ago. There is also another reason not to use bloodworms: they may cause allergies in humans. This goes doubly for dried bloodworms, since the allergenic substances may then be inhaled as dust. Instead of these foods, when I want to condition fish, I feed shrimp meat, chopped earthworm, beefheart, and mosquito larvae. Neither live tubifex or frozen bloodworms are indispensible. (Also there is a confusion in this thread about what bloodworms _are_. Tubifex is NOT the same as bloodworms; tubifex are small aquatic earthworms, long and thin, while bloodworms are larvae of non-biting midges, shorter and plumper. Tubifex: http://www.akvariumas.lt/straipsniai...as/tubifex.jpg Bloodworms: http://www.ocean-adventures.org/imag...t/bloodwms.gif To add to this, the marine glycerid worms used for bait are often also called bloodworms: http://www.mainebait.com/bloodworm.html These are however much larger worms than either tubifex or chironomid larvae.) |
"Bucky" wrote in message ...
I know what you mean about the allergy thing...sheesh. Freeze dried blood worms make me sneeze violently and my eyes water and itch severely. If I feed frozen bloodworms, I cant touch the inside of the bag nor the frozen worms with my hands/fingers. If I do, they swell up for about an hour. I'd stay away from bloodworms if I were you: you're clearly sensitive, and may become allergic to other things apart from the bloodworms, or the allergy may become more severe. You may get to the point that you can't even be close to bodies of water where bloodworms are common. Bloodworms are quite strongly allergenic; perhaps as many as 1 in 5 exposed to bloodworms develop an allergy ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...tool=iconabstr ). If bloodworms were, say, a dye or a foodstuff, they'd likely be banned. |
Yea, I've been collecting mosquito larvae all summer and freezing it.
Hopefully, I wont have to fool w/ bloodworms this winter. "Mean_Chlorine" wrote in message om... "Bucky" wrote in message ... I know what you mean about the allergy thing...sheesh. Freeze dried blood worms make me sneeze violently and my eyes water and itch severely. If I feed frozen bloodworms, I cant touch the inside of the bag nor the frozen worms with my hands/fingers. If I do, they swell up for about an hour. I'd stay away from bloodworms if I were you: you're clearly sensitive, and may become allergic to other things apart from the bloodworms, or the allergy may become more severe. You may get to the point that you can't even be close to bodies of water where bloodworms are common. Bloodworms are quite strongly allergenic; perhaps as many as 1 in 5 exposed to bloodworms develop an allergy ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...tool=iconabstr ). If bloodworms were, say, a dye or a foodstuff, they'd likely be banned. |
Ever since fed my fish bloodworms I have had not been able get rid of some
cloudiness in the water. It is whitish in color and returns within couple of days after each water change. I have also been finding worms in the bottom of the tank during cleanings. The tank has been setup for about a year and I did not have this problem until I introduced the worms about 6 months ago. I used them off and on for about a week, and have not tried them since. I'm fairly confident the cloudiness is caused by the worms. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get rid of them, or clear up the water? Thanks. "Mean_Chlorine" wrote in message om... While the fish love both, and while I make every effort to provide a varied diet (ie I have three dry feeds, two pelleted, five frozen...) I never, ever, feed live tubifex or frozen bloodworms (chironomid larvae). Two reasons, firstly fish safety: Live tubifex is brimming with parasites. There's always tapeworm and sporozoa cysts in them, just waiting to get into the digestive tract of a fish. Most fish can handle it, but if the fish immunosystem gets depressed, from e.g. stress or high temperature, then the parasites may kill it. Frozen bloodworms (chironomid larvae) don't carry parasites in the same way, but it's a fatty food, and if the manufacturer and or LFS hasn't handled the food well (ie thawed the worms in a refrigerated room prior to packing and re-freezing) then they may well gone bad. And bad bloodworms cause dropsy. In fact I'd say it's the number one cause of dropsy, by a wide margin. If the bloodworms have been handled properly, it's good food, if they've not, they're pure death. Everyone is of course free to do as they please, but personally I don't take that gamble anymore, not after killing $150 worth of fish with bloodworms less than a year ago. There is also another reason not to use bloodworms: they may cause allergies in humans. This goes doubly for dried bloodworms, since the allergenic substances may then be inhaled as dust. Instead of these foods, when I want to condition fish, I feed shrimp meat, chopped earthworm, beefheart, and mosquito larvae. Neither live tubifex or frozen bloodworms are indispensible. (Also there is a confusion in this thread about what bloodworms _are_. Tubifex is NOT the same as bloodworms; tubifex are small aquatic earthworms, long and thin, while bloodworms are larvae of non-biting midges, shorter and plumper. Tubifex: http://www.akvariumas.lt/straipsniai...as/tubifex.jpg Bloodworms: http://www.ocean-adventures.org/imag...t/bloodwms.gif To add to this, the marine glycerid worms used for bait are often also called bloodworms: http://www.mainebait.com/bloodworm.html These are however much larger worms than either tubifex or chironomid larvae.) |
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