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

|| 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..

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"RedForeman ©®" wrote in message
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|| 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.

Subject: Ahhh, The Power of Bloodworms
From: "Haynes'ey"
Date: 8/3/2004 9:00 AM Central Daylight Time
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"RedForeman ©®" wrote in message
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|| 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.


Haha..no tanks!
I agree too. If ya want a little frozen variety...go for the Brine Shrimp too.

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

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.

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Velvet

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

(nuchumYussel) wrote in message . com...
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


Bloodworms are indeed a good supplement to the fish's diet... so are
tubifex.... Any piscine diet should be diverse IMHO. My experience
with tubifex is that they are very rich... I don't generally recommend
feeding it more than twice a week as this might be compared to eating
pizza all the time, not appropriate from a dietary perspective.

Anyone have any contradictory thoughts on this?

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.)