Blood Worm Trouble!

[Leedsboi86]

Hi

I just got some live bloodworm for my new HM.
Now he isn't eating much but theres quite afew on bottom and they are wriggleing into the gravel >.<

Is this normal?

 

[blue_betta]

Hi

I just got some live bloodworm for my new HM.
Now he isn't eating much but theres quite afew on bottom and they are wriggleing into the gravel >.<

Is this normal?

how much did you give him?

 

[Leedsboi86]

Guy at the store said to give him the bag(was only a small bag)
I asked him like 7 times "Are you sure?" and he said yes

 

[Leedsboi86]

Just counted and theres 12 BW in the pack(it was only a small pack they do all sizes)
he said thats a single betta feeding

 

[littlest]

12 bloodworms sounds like more than a single betta feeding to me. They have very tiny stomachs (once told their stomachs are as big as their eyes, literally, not sure if that is true).

I normally feed one or two bloodworms at a time.

 

[divisible by zero]

I throw 5-7 defrosted ones in for mine, but i have a ghost shrimp cleanup crew. If they are alive i wouldn't be worried other than them hatching

 

[Dorkhedeos]

Are you sure these are bloodworms and not blackworms? The names around my area get mixed up. I would say 7 worms is a good number, i like my betta on the fatter side(they work it off by flaring at each other for like 10 minutes 2 times a day). If its live worms, you dont really have to worry about overfeeding too much because they will live in the water so you dont have to worry about them polluting the water.