What fish won't eat baby shrimps but will eat live black worms?

[Dwarf Puffers]

I know this thread is collecting some dust, but how's the tank going? Did you add any cories?

The only thing I'd be worried about with the cories is that they'd kill themselves eating

 

[oO.Crim.Oo]

I added the cories for only a day and a half. To say the least they didn't make a dent on the worms. Everything is pretty much the same, aside from more worms since they just keep reproducing and reproducing. As soon as possible I'm going to remove all the shrimp and brig snails and then break down the tank to get rid of ramshorn snails, pond snails, and the substrate that is housing all the worms. I've considered putting the substrate in a styrofoam cooler and keep the worms to feed to my fish--after freezing them this time. No more live worms are going into my tanks! LoL

 

[tennesseemom]

I just can't get the picture out of my mind of your worm carpet. It's just freaky! I don't think I could even break down the tank, I'd have to have someone else do it. *shivers*

 

[oO.Crim.Oo]

LoL. Yeah. It's quite odd, to say the least. I'm not looking forward to it myself. I should get an updated picture. There's many more than there were then even though I don't know how! We look at the tank and watch the shrimp and snails walk right over the worms without disturbing them a bit and think how it would be if it were like that in the bottom of the lake or something. Could you imagine walking across a bunch of worms? EW!

 

[tennesseemom]

My ghost shrimp eat the worms I put in the tank for the other fish, but I haven't seen the cherry shrimp touch them.

 

[oO.Crim.Oo]

Yeah the cherry shrimp don't seem to have the least little bit of interest in the worms.