Live BlackWorms: Best Fish and LPS Food Ever?

tcmfish said:
I think you are a little mixed up....

1) I am also unaware of frozen blackworms.
2) Bloodworms are a good food source, but an insect larvae, so the only people I know of who feed live bloodworms are serious freshwater people, but even so I think they are getting phased out because of the adult insects.
3) Tubifex worms are totally different, and usually come freeze dried in blocks that you can feed by sticking the block to the inside of the aquarium. I have used them in freshwater tanks many times and the fish love them, but never tried it in saltwater.

Both blackworms, and tubifex worms are worms, bloodworms are insect larvae.
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1) yea you guys were right, i confused the frozen with blood worms hikari i think the company was.

what would be the best way to keep them alive. (blackworms).. can i put them in strafoam cups or what kind of container can i use to store them in the fridge? i know i would need to clean water everyday.
 
jonathansruelas said:
1) yea you guys were right, i confused the frozen with blood worms hikari i think the company was.

what would be the best way to keep them alive. (blackworms).. can i put them in strafoam cups or what kind of container can i use to store them in the fridge? i know i would need to clean water everyday.
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i find styrofoam cups to be the best for this type of storage.And yea rinse them every day and your good to go.
 
LukFox said:
...I do wonder if it is worth feeding her worms from this 2 week old batch or if I should get another bag? My worms have gotten quite thin (though none have died), and I'm not sure how much my butterfly is really getting from these thin worms. I just have so many left since barely anything has eaten them! Should I feed the worms something?
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The thin worms are probably fine, the fish can just eat more of them since they're smaller :) This is the reason why I only buy "1 ounce" (my LFS' unit of measure is more like a handful=an ounce) at a time, I just can't use them fast enough and they get thin.

I have found that the nice fresh fat worms from the farm seem to put the fish into a really good mood. I think it was SDGuy who had noticed the same thing.


As for addiction, well, the only fish I had to wean off of them were the ones that would pretty much only eat black worms in QT. Eventually they got hungry enough to eat mysis and flake again then I re-introduced the blackworms.
 
Jacob D said:
I have found that the nice fresh fat worms from the farm seem to put the fish into a really good mood. I think it was SDGuy who had noticed the same thing.
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+1. I have definitely noticed a change in fish behavior since I started feeding blackworms. My fish are much more active and go into a complete spaz when I approach the tank with the lights on expecting that I may feed them some more blackworms. For example, my foxface was always a bit shy and pretty much liked to stay under a ledge during lit hours. Now, my foxface spends most of his time with the lights on right up front on the front glass swimming about and apparently unafraid of any of its tankmates. My tusk likewise has become more bold and spends much more time out in the open with the lights on. This behavioral change was very pronounced and immediate upon my first feeding of the blackworms. I noticed it right away, but I figured my fish were just hungry or unusually active. I am now convinced this change is proximately caused by the blackworms. Now, I am not sure whether this behavioral change is due to some nutrional benefit from the blackworms or just a result of introducing live food generally which trigger certain instincts in the fish. My best guess is it is the later and that I may also observe a similar behavorial change in these fish if I introduced other live prey, like ghost shrimp.
 
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I have an idea for a keeper based on Paul B's keeper, I hope to set it up later this week.

How do you cycle a worm keeper?
 
How do you cycle a worm keeper?
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Put some worms in it and keep rinsing them because the water will get cloudy. It will take about two weeks. Just don't wash the thing. You can change the water though
 
What's interesting about that link is that it contains a nutritional breakdown of blackworms. Based on what has been stated in this thread, I would have thought their fat content is higher. Nice to know the protein content is easily up there with PE mysis though


snorvich said:
Interesting. Anyone use these?
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My fish are still loving these worms and eat everything else as well:) I hope I have the long term success that Paul has had.

Thanks again for the info:spin
 
Sure they would.

On a second note... Just ordered a pound from aquaticfoods, see if I can get some fish spawning, and maybe culture them. We'll see.
 
so will this keep lets say a
Red Mandarin
(Pterosynchiropus splendidus var.)
healthy in the long run?? i have been planing on getting one but have not been sure if i could keep it alive
 
Sao870 said:
so will this keep lets say a
Red Mandarin
(Pterosynchiropus splendidus var.)
healthy in the long run?? i have been planing on getting one but have not been sure if i could keep it alive
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Suitability to sustaining a mandarin is a WHOLE different topic. However the short answer is NO.
 
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