i have always used nothing but prepared foods for my fish and just lately started w/peas, cucumbers etc. I am curious as to wether it is ok to feed live worms from the garden or a bait shop. i read about severums liking earthworms and i'm sure my parrot would too. But is this safe? also any ideas on other live or non "prepared foods that work well. I'm trying to add a little more variety but do not want to end up causing problems w/ diseases or introduce something that can hurt them
feeding earthworms?
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Dangerdoll
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I would think it would be ok, the thing to be cautioned by is whether your home lawn was treated with pesticides. Other than that, I'd think it was perfectly fine.
yeah its fine i give them to my oscars once and awhile just go to your LFS and grab some those are safe and arent treated with anything or go to a bait shop and grab some i put mine in a bowl of water just to get the dirt off of them they do make some slime when the fish eat them but its easy to clean
my 11" oscar LOVED to eat those big fatty nightcrawlers ripped in half. i fed him those once every couple weeks.
I dig in my yard and find the skinniest earth worm I can, chop him up, and my angels gobble him up!
But honestly they seem to like blood worms just as much as earth worms, so if you can't get earth worms small enough, it's no biggie.
Go to the bait shop. They will most likely sell trout worms which are much smaller. Ive also heard of people feeding crickets from the pet store to there cichlids but havent tried it myself. I know mine love to have frozen krill. I feed it to them 3 times a week