Live BlackWorms: Best Fish and LPS Food Ever?

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Very interesting read. I live in South Africa and you cannot get them here. My son is coming to New York in Dec (staying in New Jersey) is there a store that you can recommend where he can get some to bring back and do you think they will last the 18 hour flight?
 
The worms from aquatic foods didn't make it again. I think the densities were too high, not really sure. Kind of confused because I have never had issues before. I know my friend ordered 1 lb. from eastern aquatics, I'll have to see how his turned out. I know both of our shipments had leeches in them...
 
I've had leeches in the ones from the LFS before. I've read it's bad if FW fish consume them. Not sure about marines...

FWIW I tried to buy BW from my LFS on Friday (they get them in on Fridays) and they were dying in the bag (fouling the water by the minute). I ended up not even purchasing them. This is not the norm IME.
 
FWIW, thats the site I've been ordering from and not having good luck. Maybe you will have a better experience though Steve.
 
I just went there and Firefox gave me warnings about the site. Tim, do you have another source for them?
 
Eastern Aquatics, is a few bucks more, but I am going to ask Matt Wittenrich how his batch turned out. I ordered from aquatic foods and he ordered from there. Mine are dead. I started a little culture and they are still alive however.
 
Wow - that's too bad. I ordered from them several times and had no problems at all, but as I said, it was several years ago.
 
Well I read this thread from top to bottom and you guys convinced me to give it a try.

I got a pound of worms online from eastern aquatics in Lancaster PA.
The worms arrived alive and well. I rinsed them and splitted in two parts, one for feeding went into the refrigerator, the other went in a 20G long tank for culture (let's see how it will pan out).

I fed some to the fish and I have to say WOW.

Here is what happened in the first 3 seconds:

second 1 -> @?#?WHAT IS THIS????
second 2 -> LET ME NIBBLE!
second 3 -> YEAH FEEDING FRENZY!

And not just the usual one as you feed, it was a piranha stile feeding frenzy. What is interesting is that even after the worms were all gone the fish keept looking around in every nook and cranny hunting for more.

Now here is the main question:
The main reason why I got the worms is to feed a copperband butterfly that I added some 15 days ago. The CB has been feeding on aiptasia (all gone now) and I believe pods since I see her continuously pecking on the rocks and I assume she is eating something. She is not fat nor thin.

She ate a few worms which is good becouse she has never eaten anything directly from the water column, however she was the only one not feasting on the worms like the other fish.

What can I do to induce this fish to eat more?
 
jjstecchino said:
What can I do to induce this fish to eat more?
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I had a similar issue with my Indian Trigger. He at first showed little interest in the blackworms. He then sampled a worm and thereafter joined the feeding frenzy. He then grew to love the worms so much that he stoped eating other foods, and I had to stop feeding the worms for a bit so that he would go back to eating other foods. Give your fish a little time. If she is sampling the worms, she will definitely join the frenzy, particularlly a butterfly who are known to love these worms.
 
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