Frozen Bloodworm

[Kaidonni]

I was going to feed some frozen bloodworm this evening to my fish, and it's from the DutchSelectFood range (Dutch Select Premium Frozen Fish Food/Dutch Select Premium Frozen Food for fish on the back of the packaging, or something like that). I defrosted it in a plastic cup for an hour and a half, then came to pour out the remaining water and dilute with aquarium water before sucking it into a pipette to loose at different heights in the tank for different fish...except there were brown/greenish bits in there, possibly bloodworm. I tried my best to fill the cup with a small amount of aquarium water - a few ml - but it seemed that I'd always suck some of the gunk up into the pipette. I kept dipping the pipette into the aquarium during all of this, but to my knowledge none of the bloodworm or gunk came out of the pipette or off the side of it into the tank (some bloodworm and gunk got stuck inside the pipette right at the start of all this, and try as I might, it remained, so I had to suck aquarium water into the same pipette and put it into the cup - running out of pipettes, too).
 
Now, I know that frozen food goes through a sterilisation process, and I only purchased this food in the last month or so, but it just got to me and I didn't feed it. It didn't look right, and I didn't want to end up poisoning the fish with bad food. Am I over-reacting, or was it wise to dump the bloodworm?

 

[GuppyGirl20]

Sorry. I can't help you but along this subject I too bought some frozen food for my betta. I stuck it in the freezer part of my mini fridge but the food got mushy so I downed the temperature which froze it again. Now on a few squares there's greem stuff. Should I avoid the green squares or is rhat just what frozen food does? (M yt? Frozen food is just a frozen variety pack from petco)

 

[sawickib]

I don't know what gunk your talking about, but I just take a cube and defrost it for a few minutes and then I pour it between 3 tanks, but there is sometimes bloodworms that are tiny, brown or green and I just pour it all in there, and I haven't had any problems.

 

[Kaidonni]

I don't know what gunk your talking about, but I just take a cube and defrost it for a few minutes and then I pour it between 3 tanks, but there is sometimes bloodworms that are tiny, brown or green and I just pour it all in there, and I haven't had any problems.

 
It'd be similar to what you are describing - bloodworms that look brown or green. Likely the rest of the gunk is that same brown/green bloodworm, but broken up.

 

[star4]

Brown bloodworms were dead bloodworms when they were frozen, I have not used that brand so I dont know how good their quality is, I stick with BCUK frozen foods, their bloodworm is usually bright red and chunky.