Are bloodworms supposed to sink?

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I got this container of bloodworms that was packaged by a LFS for less than half the price of bloodworms at any other LFS or chain store. I read on a couple sites that my dragon goby would eat them.

My fish love these bloodworms, but the goby has never touched them. The bloodworms never sink. They will float at the top until they are decomposed. I do not see how any dragon goby would eat a food that never sinks.

I am wondering if these bloodworms were mislabeled or slightly different, or if bloodworms just don't sink.
 
are the bloodworms the dehydrated kind or the frozen ones? freeze dried food never sinks, but frozen will. buy the frozen cubes, cut a cube into quarters (or whatever size portions you think are appropriate for the goby), and put a piece right near your goby's favourite spot in the tank, on the gravel.
 
The bloodworms are freezedried.

Next time I will just stick with frozen.

He has been eating shrimp pellets and algae wafers (incase anybody thought he was starving), but I figured he may need some more variety.

Thanks for the answers!
 
Yeah my cardinal tetras never ate my freeze dried blood worms either, but they would chomp up the frozen one though.
 
I read somewhere that freeze dried bloodworms are actually tubifex worms, which are less nutritious. The frozen ones are proper bloodworms, AKA midge larvae. If your fish like one and not the other, it might be because they're two different types of worms.
 
You live and learn. I wound up giving my freezedried bloodworms away. Also had terrible luck with freezedried tubifex worms and shrimp.
I'll bet your goby will love frozen brine shrimp as well as the frozen bloodworms. Those are the two frozen foods I always use.
 
jclee said:
I read somewhere that freeze dried bloodworms are actually tubifex worms, which are less nutritious. The frozen ones are proper bloodworms, AKA midge larvae. If your fish like one and not the other, it might be because they're two different types of worms.
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The freeze-dried bloodworms I use are bloodworms. Freeze-dried tubifex are also common, though.
 
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