View Full Version : How Are Bloodworms for Feeding?
mokmu
12-03-2002, 10:15 AM
I have been getting mixed opinions on this food source. What is it really - Good or Bad?
mokmu
12-03-2002, 10:19 AM
By the way, these are for pl*cs.
Pootspete
12-03-2002, 11:08 AM
I used freeze dried bloodworm for my Betta who gobbles it up. I also feed some times to my tetras, zebras who simply love it too.
polkadot
12-03-2002, 1:07 PM
I used it everyday or so! My plecos love it! But be sure to give it a well-balanced diet!
Hootchieman
12-03-2002, 2:20 PM
I feed my fish a mix of bloodworm and frozen shrimp. The pleco gets an algae wafer as well but will chew on the shrimp as well. All of my other loaches (Clown, Yo-Yo, Skunk) love the bloodworm as well.
I also feed bloodworms maybe once or twice a week. They love it. I did read an interesting article in aquarium fish though last month. That bloodworms can cause an allergic reaction in fish and in humans. So not to sound like like your mother but wash your hands after handling them. Hey, thats what the book said. :)
SnakeIce
12-04-2002, 5:45 PM
Blood worms are lower in protean than say, tubefex, and are harder to digest for some fish. If a fish stuffs itself with them there is a chance they will block the digestive system, which is obviously a problem. If you have a fish that is not eating they are quite tempting but I have stoped feading my fish blood worms
clayt101
12-04-2002, 9:37 PM
How do bloodworms compare to beefheart or blackworms?
wetmanNY
12-05-2002, 2:50 PM
The protein in our flake diets is too high for healthy long lives. Adult carnivorous fish need no more than 40% protein.
Bloodworms are chironomid midge larvae. They are the most natural prey of freshwater fishes.
Thanks for all the replies. So I gather that it is basically fine so long as I give it sparingly, is that right?
I really still do give them sparingly but its just that I have been receiving not so good stuff recently.
Just a question, has anyone actually had first hand experience with a fish stuffing itself with this and dying? How were they saved, if ever?
wetmanNY
12-07-2002, 10:49 AM
One quibble: Wench posted "bloodworms can cause an allergic reaction in fish and in humans."
In sensitized humans. But not in fish. We don't want to start one of those 'net rumors here at AquariaCentral.
Jeremy S
12-07-2002, 12:26 PM
Originally posted by Wench
I did read an interesting article in aquarium fish though last month. That bloodworms can cause an allergic reaction in fish and in humans. So not to sound like like your mother but wash your hands after handling them. Hey, thats what the book said. :)
I’m very allergic to freeze dried blood worms but not the frozen ones.