Tubifex Worms

[celaeno]

i just read the ingredients off a can of wardley shrimp pellets and one of them is tubifex worms. i recall reading that they were bad for fish, but forgot what it was. anyone know what's so bad about tubifex worms?

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

They have been known to come from area's contaminated with raw sewage in the past- they are commonly known as sewage worms due to their love of living in the stuff, live tubifex worms can also pass on internal parasites to fish and can also harbor nasty human deseases like tetanus and hepatitus;

http/micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/olympus...ifex/index.html

So they are not the cleanest, healthiest or safest critters to handle or feed your fish. Type "sewage" and "tubifex worms" in google and you will get many results.

 

[celaeno]

are you referring to live or freeze-dried tubifex worms?

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

are you referring to live or freeze-dried tubifex worms?

Both. The live ones are more dangerous to fish due to the parasites they carry, but the dried ones still come from filthy desease infested sewage area's. I'm not sure if you can get the human deseases off the freeze-dried ones, but either way there are still much healthier and cleaner and better quality critters you can feed to your fish .

 

[celaeno]

shucks! and i was looking forward to getting wardley shrimp pellets for my cories too!

by the way, is it safe to feed fish freeze-dried bloodworms?

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

shucks! and i was looking forward to getting wardley shrimp pellets for my cories too!

by the way, is it safe to feed fish freeze-dried bloodworms?

As far as i am aware bloodworms are much cleaner, healthier and safer than tubifex worms . Feeding frozen bloodworms is particularly good for fish, your fish will go crazy over the frozen ones .

 

[WILDER]

I will only use freeze dried tubilex worms had no trouble with them.

 

[celaeno]

I will only use freeze dried tubilex worms had no trouble with them.

who to believe, tokis or wilder, wilder or tokis?

anyway, i went to two different lfs today and neither's wardley shrimp pellets had tubifex listed as an ingredient. petco's site must be erroneous or outdated.

i got the hbh shrimp pellets in the end because only petsmart carries the omega one brand shrimp pellets, and it's too far away.

 

[WILDER]

If I had any problems with freeze dried tubilex I would tell you.
But I haven't cross fingers lol.

Wouldn't feed them to much though.

http/www.gsas.org/Articles/1997/tubifex.html

 

[The-Wolf]

interestingly
case of piscine TB found in the wild only occure in bodies of water that contain tubifex Tubifex tubifex
taking tubifex from the wild is never a good idea, however most sellers of tubifex raise their own in unpolluted waters and should be safe.
Frozen tubifex is almost always gamma irradiated to kill any pathogens.
Freeze dried tubifex, again should not contain any pathoegens due to the freezing prcoess, but freeze dried foods can cause some internal problems, like bloat or constipation.

to sum up
generaly speaking
live or frozen tubifex is ok.

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

interestingly
case of piscine TB found in the wild only occure in bodies of water that contain tubifex Tubifex tubifex
taking tubifex from the wild is never a good idea, however most sellers of tubifex raise their own in unpolluted waters and should be safe.
Frozen tubifex is almost always gamma irradiated to kill any pathogens.
Freeze dried tubifex, again should not contain any pathoegens due to the freezing prcoess, but freeze dried foods can cause some internal problems, like bloat or constipation.

to sum up
generaly speaking
live or frozen tubifex is ok.

Hmm, after i read this article a while back by practical fishkeeping magazine, thats when i stopped feeding my fish tubifex;

http/www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/pfk/...em.php?news=693

The picture the article painted was that tubifex are more dangerous than a lot of people are led to believe. IMHO, i think its better to be safe rather than sorry- there aren't really any fish that need tubifex, and there are plenty of other foods, so when it comes down to the choice of feeding the stuff or not i'd rather opt for other critters like bloodworms and things .