Frozen bloodworm question

erin14

erin14

Canadian, Eh?
Aug 7, 2007
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Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
Okay, this may sound like a really dumb question but i'm dead serious. I'm not a newbie to keeping fish but I am a newbie to using frozen food as I have only used flakes and freeze dried food. Tonight while working at the store I work in (an LFS) I had a customer ask about frozen food and I felt kind of dumb when I said "well i'm not sure because I've never used frozen food, i'm afraid I can't answer your question". I'm decided to try these bloodworms out so that the next time a customer asks a question regarding bloodworms hopefully I can answer. As of right now the fish in my 50g. love the bloodworms so thats a good sign, didn't feed any to the fish in the 20g. So, heres the question...is there anyway at all that the few bloodworms that fall to the bottom of the tank and get missed by my cories could like somehow come alive?? I was just thinking that because they're frozen so when they are thawed then could they all of a sudden "wake up" and then infest my gravel... kind of like how a frog can survive all winter in a frozen lake and then be perfectly fine come spring?? Sorry, I know some of you are probably laughing as you're reading this but I have no clue. All I did was take a cube, put it in a little dish of tank water and thawed it for about 2 mins and then I just put little pinches in until they were gone. Thanks for the help.

p.s- Sorry, this should have gone in the newbie section..
 
zero chance that they will come back to life.
This reminds me of an experiment a friend and I made a few decades ago. We had the bright idea that we could take a bass fry netted from the local lake, put it in a container and place in the freezer, and then thaw it out and see if it came back to life. It didn't.
 
no chance coming to life, fish will gobble them like candy
 
i would have a feeling that if they are frozen fast enough they may live.

there is a frog in northern america that will completely freeze for winter and then thaw in spring, there is also a amphibian/fish thing in desert type places that when water starts flowing again it comes back to life. they have lived for like 70 years in these coccoon looking things.
 
Erin,
I would not worry about your frozen food coming back to life. Your 2 minutes sounds very short to me. I usually will get some chunks thawing in tank water, then sit down and look through any new postings for anything interesting then go back to the frozen food. Time is anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour depending on what I find to read. The frozen food is basically room temperature when I swish it around and let some fall into each tank that I'm feeding.
 
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