Blckworms esacping into substrate.

[satanpie]

So today i had my first experience with live food, i went and got a portion of live blackworms from my LFS. I startedby slowing pouring them in a few at a time, but then the whole clump of them fell in, it was def waaay too much and the angels are quite bloated now, they had a feast!! That being said, i think theyll be ok, just wont feed tomorrow, and do a nice WC, but what i am concerned about is that a bunch of the worms are escaping and burrowing into the substrate, what gonna heppen with them? are they gonna die and contaminate the water? or start to reproduce? i usually dont gravel vac because i have eco complete but should i vac them all out?

 

[Notophthalmus]

They will persist indefinitely, and may well reproduce. Your fish will pick them off when they poke up. Nothing for you to worry about!

 

[satanpie]

Awesome, so its kind of like a built in food supply!

 

[msjinkzd]

http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=147694&highlight=worms+substrate

see this, AACK!

 

[satanpie]

gguuuaaahhhhh, wow, thats alot of worms, but im sure with the kinds of fish in my tank it wont get anywhere near that crazy.

 

[msjinkzd]

lol, hopefully not, just had to share that one.

 

[OldMan47]

That's amazing, how can I get worms to do that so I can collect them and spread them around the rest of my tanks? I have bettas, an angel, some mollies, lots of endlers, some gold barbs, zebras,rasboras, a few platies, many different cories and some rainbow cichlids that would love to get a steady supply of them.

 

[Notophthalmus]

OldMan- check out this thread: http://forum.nanfa.org/index.php?showtopic=3252&st=20

 

[irishspy]

Just keep some cories. When I used to feed live tubifex to the fish, some would inevitably escape into the gravel. No worries: as soon as the cories found them, they became little digging and eating machines.

 

[jm1212]

i would vac them out, but thats just me.