live foods for livebearers

[sharkweek178]

Bloodworms are another good food it can naturally appear in water butts the worms can often be seen swimming at the water surface, bloodworms share a life cycle similar to mosquitos, unlike the mosquito, the adult bloodworm fly itself does not bite.
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I often get those in my mosquote cultures. Especially when leaves end up in them.

 

[fish48]

I find that bloodworms don't seem prolific as mosquito larva,
it can be time consuming removing bloodworms from decayed leaf /plant material one of my water butts containing duckweed had a good number of blood worms, the easiest way to separate worms is to put duckweed into a bucket or container of Freshwater the worms will slowly make the way to the bottom of container I put some duckweed in a small fish tank and left it within 2or3 hours most of worms had gone to the bottom of tank and Bury themselves in mud like caves

 

[fish48]

I recently been collecting glass worms from one of my outside daphnia tubs when it becomes available which is not very often, glass worms are predators and feed on small aquatic creatures such as daphnia it can attack or eat very small egg laying fry,
Any glass worm that don't get eaten by the fish will eventually turn into a non biting fly looking similar to a mosquito