Frozen Bloodworms

harried_mom · Mar 28, 2004

How do I feed frozen bloodworms to my fish (both tanks)?

mrV · Mar 28, 2004

Break small pieces of it and drop them into your tanks.

CFC · Mar 28, 2004

You can either throw the cube in and let it defrost in the water or you can defrost a cube in a cup of tank water and add them once thawed, the latter option is better if you have shy bottom dwellers that otherwise wouldnt get any food due to active middle and surface dwellers eating it all.

mrV · Mar 28, 2004

And don't do like I did it first. I put frozen worms into microwave because I thought they need to be defrosted first :rofl:

- smell was so disgusting that I couldn't breathe while feedind my fishes :lol:

CFC · Mar 28, 2004

mrV said:
And don't do like I did it first. I put frozen worms into microwave because I thought they need to be defrosted first - smell was so disgusting that I couldn't breathe while feedind my fishes

OMG

bloodworms smell bad enough anyway without heating them up, i would have been sick :sick:

SirMinion · Mar 28, 2004

I have a worm feeder, made by Hagen and bought from PetsAtHome. (£1.49) It has a sucker on it to attatch it to the glass at water level and is ideal for feeding bloodworms to the top & middle feeders.

harried_mom · Mar 28, 2004

Thanks everyone for your helpful hints! I certainly won't nuke them - URGH! I don't even like to touch them. I first cut them into chunks, but that was so disgusting that I am hesitant to do it again! I think I will defrost them in a cup, and never use that cup for anything else. LOL

jams.alaskan · Mar 28, 2004

I have one of those worm, cone feeders - my 10 inch pleco was found one morning VERY stuck in it! Guess I should have removed it when empty. He survived his many scrapes and tears in his fins. Healed quickly with melafix (love that stuff).

ALASKA

harried_mom · Mar 28, 2004

Alaska, your words of caution are well-received. I am glad your plec survived. Perhaps now, he's a little smarter!

SirMinion · Mar 28, 2004

jams.alaskan said:
I have one of those worm, cone feeders - my 10 inch pleco was found one morning VERY stuck in it! Guess I should have removed it when empty. He survived his many scrapes and tears in his fins. Healed quickly with melafix (love that stuff).

ALASKA

Yes I should have mentioned that it's important to remove it after feeding (along with the uneaten worms)

Also, it only really works with live bloodworm, not frozen.

I don't know why I mentioned it really.

drobbins27 · Mar 28, 2004

jams.alaskan said:
I have one of those worm, cone feeders - my 10 inch pleco was found one morning VERY stuck in it! Guess I should have removed it when empty. He survived his many scrapes and tears in his fins. Healed quickly with melafix (love that stuff).

ALASKA

noelberg · Mar 28, 2004

good stories

bloodworms do smell a lot like chode :sick:

if you have finger-nipping fish, don't do what i do:
I just kinda move the cube around in the water while it thaws, thus distributing bloodworms all over the tank. I don't like letting pieces drop since some of my fish won't eat from the bottom - the ones who do get hella fat (the killi eats his own friggin weight in bloodworms)

Bol · Mar 28, 2004

For what it's worth, I generally take a small glass container (I use ~3" diameter glass bowls, like you often see on cooking shows), put a little tank water in them, and drop in a hunk of frozen bloodworms. Let it sit for 10 minutes or so to thaw, drain off the water, and you're ready to feed.

Chris_JT · Mar 28, 2004

i fill a plastic cup with warm or sometimes hot water and throw a cube in, it melts fast. i distribute the water over the surface so it goes all over and they all get a chance to get some.

Sang72 · Mar 29, 2004

I used to just throw the chunks into the tank, but I noticed that they would all settle at the bottom in clumps, and the bigger more agressive fishies would gobble them all up, leaving none for my poor shy cories. :sad:

Now I swish the chunks in the water while massaging them with my thumb and forefinger to distribute it all over the tank. (not advisable if you keep pirahanas or moret eels

). Some float to the top for the surface feeders, the midwater feeders get them on the way down and the cories love it because the sinking larvae drift in between the gravel nooks where they can dig for it (ha ha Mr. Gourami, don't you wish you had digging whiskers)