nut. value of earth worms and night crawlers

An alternative to night crawler are red worm, a smaller species of earth worm that cultivate well in worm bin. You can feed them with vegetative kitchen scrap, a great well to recycle. They multiple very fast and can consume their own weight of food in two days. They don't get dirt in the gut and since they are cultivated in bedding material like peat moss and fed under control condition, I have never heard of parasites problem. Feeding them to small fish do have problem and need to be chop down in smaller pieces and it is a time consuming and messy way.

Here is a link of everything you want to know about how to keep Red Worms.

http://www.wormdigest.org/links/webworm1.html
 
Superworms

I can't tell you much about superworms as food, but I work in a LFS and they bite! (literally, they bite :( ) They also grow into huge beetles if you keep them long enough. May not be helpful, but I had to put in my two yen... I have no problem with taking a dead fish out of a tank with my bare hands, rinsing blackworms, feeding blackworms or other worms, or cleaning up messes from both ends of a dog when they're smeared all over the dog bed, but I can't stand superworms! :o :eek:
 
Doesn't the idea of getting earthworms from the soil or redworms from garbage sound disgusting,isn't bloodworms good enough?Anyway,my dad's fren give mealworms fishfood before giving the fish mealworms,he says the fishfood adds to the nutritional value of the worm,apart from all this,worms sound like a good source of food for those who diet.
 
Originally posted by Serrateeth_2002
Doesn't the idea of getting earthworms from the soil or redworms from garbage sound disgusting,
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No in the first case, a bit in the second.

isn't bloodworms good enough?
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But they're not free.

Anyway,my dad's fren give mealworms fishfood before giving the fish mealworms,he says the fishfood adds to the nutritional value of the worm,apart from all this,worms sound like a good source of food for those who diet.
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Why not just feed the flake seperately? Less hassle all round. I can't be arsed with clearing the worms' guts either - a bit of soil'l do no harm. Who cleans out the worms that get eaten in the wild when they fall in the pond, eh?
 
I started 2 worm farms this spring and have been very happy with them. I keep them in my garage so now that it is winter the colder weather slows the reproduction and eating rate way down, the garage is set at 50. Other than that it has been great, my oscar loves the leaf worms and the convicts prefer the smaller red worms. Get this, I even bought a cheap pepper mill from Goodwill and dried some red worms and grind them for my fry for a treat, they go for it really well.

Start a worm bin, you will be glad you did.

Stias'

Nutritional Analysis of Red Worms

Moisture- 84.8%

Fat- 2.0%

Ash-0.7%

protein- 10.5%

From wormman.com
 
Aikidoguy.

have you tried feeding your arowana earthworm?
also raising some to feed to my arowana, would like to know how your arowana like them? also what changes have you noticed on your arowana?

thanks!!
 
you wernt asking me but i feed my arowana worms mainly nightcrawlers since they are bigger. he likes them and they are high in protien i feed so many diff things i dont know what actually works better but my fish is huge. oh about the earlier posts when you take the worms outta the fridge when they are still cold put them in a dish of warm water and they will do all the cleaning for you.
 
or maybe it was warm worms in cold water sorry i forget but i dont remember keeping my worms warm. i forget just expieriment i know putting them in water works
 
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