Mealworms

[Avinitlarge]

Is it ok to feed tropical fish meal worms, Wax worms or mario worms? My brother works for a live food company and can get all of these for free

 

[Boxcar Muzzdogg]

I have personally never heard anything that would say its ok to do so, but I did once see several healthy bluegills that lived on a diet of straight earthworms so maybe it is ok. Maybe someone else on the board has some more info.

 

[GSD]

you can do it if you have a ;arge enough fish to eat it

 

[abstract]

bluegills eat earthworms in the wild lol... of course those types of native fish can, Boxcar!

larger tropical fish i would say would have no problem with mealworms (large gouramis and anything larger really), but don't try to feed it to anything smaller or they may choke

 

[BigC]

I have fed mealworms to large killifish in the past. The devoured them in seconds.

 

[mellowserra]

Never heard of mario worms (unless by another name), but wax worms and mealworms are great!

With the mealworms, it is important to smash or cut their heads off, especially so with the bigger ones, as they can bite/injure the insides of fish with their mouth parts.

 

[Avinitlarge]

Never heard of mario worms (unless by another name), but wax worms and mealworms are great!

With the mealworms, it is important to smash or cut their heads off, especially so with the bigger ones, as they can bite/injure the insides of fish with their mouth parts.

Super Giant Mealworms (Morios)

These do bite, As my brother has found out a few times

 

[abstract]

With the mealworms, it is important to smash or cut their heads off, especially so with the bigger ones, as they can bite/injure the insides of fish with their mouth parts.

great advice, never thought about that - thanks!

 

[Boxcar Muzzdogg]

bluegills eat earthworms in the wild lol... of course those types of native fish can, Boxcar!

Thats very interesting.

 

[SirMinion]

I feed regular sized mealworms to our parrot cichlids, purple spotted gudgeon, synodontis, raphaels, polypterus and all of our puffers except the dwarfs. They love 'em.

The Dragon puffers also like waxworms, and the polypterus is very fond of large crickets and locusts.