If one must feed Tubifex every day, it is best to buy fresh ones every day if that's possible. This is because dead worms and 'partially dead' worms are not easy to separate from the other worms.
Washing Tubifex worms after they are left overnight can never make them safe for fish. I never leave live Tubifex worms overnight. The next day, I only need to break a piece of the thin 'ice-biscuit' and feed the frozen worms to my fish. I then feed it to my fish after jet rinsing it a few times in a big container, by using tap water.Īfter that first feed, I immediately pour ice-cold water over the remainder and drain the excess cold water until only a thin layer of water is covering them the worms. It can be easily seen by the good colour and liveliness of the whole batch on display. Whenever I want to give my fish a Tubifex treat, I will always buy only those fresh and succulent ones I come across in the lfs. He's getting thinner by the day now as I have been busy. Read this info some where.Time consuming if you ask me.Įspecially my cherry barbs which don't really eat The hikari micro pellets which the females devour with relish, I nave only to feed him worms. The other thing is the worms need to be defrosted before feeding other small fish like mine will hav a temperature shock if they rush to grab the worms as they always do because they do so love them. Cutting it into smaller pieces did not work as it does not reduce the thickness of each blood worms. The only issue is they are too thick and my cherry barbs and cories looked like they are facing much problems in chomping the frozen blood worms down.
I bought worms that are treated with X-ray to kill whatever that is not to be there before being fed to the fish. i have very bad experience with either forzen or live food, kill my entire bettas and flowerhorn infected with parasitesSorry to hear of your loss. I will advise not to use both either frozen or live. I read somewhere within this forum that mouthwash can be used as well to disinfect the live tubifex. It is alarming and I think I will put them into Quarantine Tank soon. I noticed that after continuously feeding the c.pandas with the live tubifex, some of them had bodies that turned black instead of their usual pearl color. The problem with live tubifex or bloodworms is you need to wash and disinfect it with potassium permanganate first before feeding it to your fishes (very troublesome) and also live feed cannot be kept long.Thanks aquarius for the tips, I previously just washed them with water whenever the water in which they are kept turned red or there is a strong smell.
Actually it's best to feed live worms cos you don't know how long the frozen ones have been kept, much like frozen chicken or fish that one would buy from the supermarket won't be as fresh as live ones. After you defrost the bloodworms, use a pair of scissor and roughly cut up the worms into smaller pieces.
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