Found A Ton Of Worms Outside.........

[penguinpimp1990]

We had some big rains last night, and when i was playing basketball in my driveway today i noticed a big puddle about an inch deep. I look and and hit the worm gold-mine. This puddle had about 250 worms squirming around, and being the fishkeeper that i am i thought All different sizes, some skinny, some fat, some short,some long......all these worms have the same purplish coloration and are definately the same species of worm, so after my long story my question is can i feed them to my fish?

 

[BigC]

Earthworms are excellent food for tropical fish, provided there has been no pesticides or chemicals used on their habitat. Feed them whole or chop them up using a stanley knife blade.

 

[Siamese Fighter05]

How would you go about washing them? Just a good scrub under the tap?

 

[yvez9]

i would give them a quick rinse too, just to be on the safe side!

earthworms are one of the best foods available to meat eating fish! awesome find!

 

[Clairel]

Do you put them in alive??? Or kill them??

C x

 

[SirMinion]

We feed earthworms to most of our fish, live and whole to the Fahaka, Figure Eight and Dragon puffers, the big Purple Striped Gudgeon and the Parrot Cichlid, and chopped for the other fish.

We usually buy ours from a local reptile store so we know that they're clean but if we dig them our selves we get them from a local nature reserve where pesticides and pollutants are not used then rinse them in tankwater.

 

[BigC]

Do you put them in alive??? Or kill them??

Alive is best (whole, smaller ones) depending on the size of fish (a good guide is to look at the size of the eye to see how big a morsel to feed your fish).
If they are too large then chop them up.
Excellent food.
Regards
BigC

 

[penguinpimp1990]

Do you put them in alive??? Or kill them??

definately alive, so ill just rinse them them plop the in the tank

 

[ferrikins]

I wa thinking of feeding earth worms to my newt, but have been worryed about infection. The only thing that goes on my garden is my dog, would that make any difference to weather I can feed them.

 

[Luke_e]

Doubt it, unless the worms are covered in dog poop and maybe urine, but just rinse them and they should be fine. Although i aint sure if the need to be washed in dechrlorinated water, as if you put them in covered in chlorinated then it may affect the fish?

 

[yvez9]

if you rinse the worms in tap watre, the little chlorine present wwouldn't hurt the fish

it will probably have evaporated by the time you reach the tank anyway...

 

[iron maiden fan]

you should leave the worms in a container overnight to let poo out anthing bad they've eaten

 

[smooth_bourbon]

using a stanley knife blade

Are you a stanley salesman?

I just came inside from my nightly worm hunt. I am sure the neighbors think I am coo coo. Wandering around the yard at night with my flashlight hunting for nightcrawlers

 

[BigC]

Are you a stanley salesman

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Nooooo. I always used razor blades for dicing live Tubifex worms but the are extinct now I think, giving way to the disposable age.

 

[smooth_bourbon]

Oh I actually use scissors. When I cut them up for the Jack Dempsey.