Assassin Diet

[Hollygirl]

I've read a couple of posts that say they will eat blood worms. Is that something I would buy in the live food section at the LFS? Are blood worms mosquito larve? Do you think Assassins would eat live brine shrimp? Anyone ever try?

[Lupin]

Bloodworms are indeed midge larva or larva of nonbiting mosquitoes. Considering their nature, they will take anything meaty.

[msjinkzd]

I buy them frozen, they tear them up. I think any meaty food would work really.

[Hollygirl]

I have seen the frozen blood worms - sounds much easier than the live kind. I'll have to try it.

[toddnbecka]

I read somewhere that they'll also eat shrimp pellets. They are snails; even though they may prefer live food I would expect them to be opportunistic scavengers as well.

[Hollygirl]

I've tried a sinking pelleted food made for carnivores and they crawled around it but I don't think they were eating it - hard to tell for sure. The pond snails ate it though.

[Sounguru]

Meaty foods like frozen blood worms, mysis shrimp, krill, fish, snail, or beef heart are all foods that I have confirmed as being eaten by the assassins. I have also seen them eat high protien dried foods but only when they had no other food source.

What I have not seen them eat persoanlly shrimp pellets and alage wafers both of these have been reported by other people as something they will eat but I have not visually confirmed it myself.

[msjinkzd]

I don't own anything (other than shrimp ironically) that will eat shrimp pellets. My assassins readily eat ken's catfish pellets (even though they have baby snails dropped in a couple times a week)