Feeding meal worm

[Paul_MTS]

I got my first load of mealworm thorugh the post today and wondering how you get yours.

Mine came in alot of What i think was there food (Bug Grub) and I'ved just spent an hour or so getting it all out so I'm not putting it in the tank.

Jsut wondering how you feed yours?

 

[CFC]

I use plastic tweezers to pick them up and feed them one at a time, they drown very quickly and will seriously mess up the water if a uneaten one gets trapped under the decor. My fish arent that keen on them so i only use them if i cant get crickets which they much preffer.

 

[wuvmybetta]

My fish don't really like them either. I can get smaller fish to take the guts by squeezing the meal worm and feeding...the...err,insides

 

[Gourami Lover88]

I just drop in one at a time to make sure their eaten,my Bluegill dont like them either,but I cant get grasshopers or waxworms in the winter.

 

[Paul_MTS]

My appollo sharks love them so by putting them in 1 by 1 takes longer to pick 1 up than it to be eaten, the arowana is pretty keen on there aswell. The gar is funny funny how he creeps up to it then.....snap!!

and within a minute the bottom came alive with the BGk's out and the birchirs searching for them.

The arowana won't eat waxworms!! he picks 1 off the surface then splits it out.

Does the food aorund it do any bad to the tank or fish that might eat it.

I feed crickets aswell which don't take long to go.

 

[wuvmybetta]

Does the food aorund it do any bad to the tank or fish that might eat it.

It should be fine as it's usually all natural,but it wouldn't hurt to rinse them in a net beforehand. I've only seen mealworms in a bran type culture, what are yours in?


Here's some mealworm info I stumbled on.

 

[Sean_Buckley]

I chop the heads off mind, and then just drop them in. My turtles and cons will take them right fom my hand, but the angels don't eat them. The Raphael cats, Cories, and Red Eye Tetras try to steal them from each other, lol.
Sean
EDIT: My turtles favorites are the jumbo mealworms. They're as think as a marker (skinny marker though).

 

[SirMinion]

Our Palembang Puffers love mealworms, we dont behead the worms as the puffers chew them anyway.

I pick them out with my fingers and feed them to the puffers one by one. ensuring that each fish gets his fill. Uneaten fragments are removed immediately.

The 'stuff' that they come in is just wheatmeal to feed them with, removing this will result in the worms dieing. If the wheatmeal is left in it will gradually vanish and be replaced with a dry, granular powery substance. This is worm poo and does need to be removed. I find a flour sieve does the job nicely.

Mealworms can be kept for weeks simply by occasionally adding a small ammount of slighly damp wheatmeal, such as crushed weetabix.

They will eventually metamorphose into the pupae then beetle stages, but I'd bet that an arowana would love the beetles!

 

[Paul_MTS]

Hmm hadn't even thought of chopping the heads off!!

I haven't manage to remove all the food so there's still some there, I think next time I'll order the bigger size instead!!

Idon't think think mum would be too happy if I sieved worm poo through it!!

I'm sure he will love them but when I move the oscar in I reakon he's going to stuff himself first

 

[Gill]

I have used Meal Worms for a While.

For small Fish I Cut off the HEad and Squeeze them out into the Water.

The Parrots and Cichlids Love them.

But My Sultan Pl*c Goes Mad for them and Swims up to the Surface and Hover's around to get them.

 

[astroboy]

I used to chop the heads off so the fish could find them easier.
But, i don't feed mealworms anymore. My bichirs crap out the shell and its really unappealing (having mealworms shell litter the bottom of your tank).

 

[SirMinion]

I don't feed mealworms anymore. My bichirs crap out the shell and its really unappealing (having mealworms shell litter the bottom of your tank).

Yes Martha does that with prawn shells, but the shells usually float so we can just skim them off the surface.

 

[Paul_MTS]

Hmm I think that happened with froozen river shrimp I fed last night.

Where all the rubbish builds up (below each inlet) there's always a pile of crap I net out with a tiny net on a cane and there were shells and bones in there, I think someone may of crapped out some live bearer bones.

 

[Sean_Buckley]

Is it true that if you don't chop off their heads that they can chew their way through the stomach lining of the fish?
Sean

 

[astroboy]

I think thats just a myth.
I've never heard of a jumbo mealworm chewing its way out of a fishes stomach. Also, i know many (sometimes i fed them without chopping their head off) who feed superworms without chopping their heads off and have had no problems.