Feeding...

In article .com,
jazz wrote:
I'm glad it's not just me that finds this difficult. So is it just
water changes if I overfeed? My son said they would pop if they ate
too much - he's only 5(!) and I said that I didn't think they would but
it worried me slightly.

I think all dried food is worthless. Get a whiteworm clture, food is
then free and has a much lessor chance of fouling yout tank.


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Richard Sexton wrote:
I think all dried food is worthless. Get a whiteworm clture, food is
then free and has a much lessor chance of fouling yout tank.


I was warned off live food becuase it can introduce disease to the tank
and then I read that frozen food can still carry parasites, so I went
for freeze dried in the end. Would my own whiteworm culture be free of
parasites and diseases? If so I'm going to look into getting some.

Thank-you JAZZ

In article .com,
jazz wrote:

Richard Sexton wrote:
I think all dried food is worthless. Get a whiteworm clture, food is
then free and has a much lessor chance of fouling yout tank.


I was warned off live food becuase it can introduce disease to the tank
and then I read that frozen food can still carry parasites, so I went
for freeze dried in the end. Would my own whiteworm culture be free of
parasites and diseases? If so I'm going to look into getting some.

Uh, soebody lied to you. Now, if you collect food from the wild and theree
are fish where you are colletinf then yes, there's a risk. That's why
we talk about "clean" ponds - no fish, no oil slicks etc.

But, you have to understand that pathogens are extremely host specific. You
really can't (modulo some rare and extreme fringe coditions) infect a fish
with something not already living on fish.

And there's absolutely noting in a daphnia, moina or worm culture than can infect
a fish. True the culture may become infected - grindal worms are notorious for picking
up gnat infestations, but they are just tiny harmless flies and cannot infect fish.


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