Ways to keep Live Bloodworm

[Bloo]

I'm probably stating the obvious here and am the only one who didn't know this ) but.....
I usually feed frozen bloodworm and my fish love it. However, now and again I pick up a small portion of live bloodworm and usually tend to feed it the same day, as I have no clue to keep it (fresh and not stinking) otherwise.
So the other day I asked the chap at the store and he said it's quite simple (if only I knew!):

Drain the water entirely (it work for me by just throwing the whole lot in a sieve. The sieve was fine enough not to let them slip through.)
Then take a few layers of wet newspaper and wrap them up in it.
Put that in a small plastic bag in the fridge (to keep them from accidentally crawling out ( ), and voila!

Apparently they are fine for up to a week like that and stay nice and fresh, alive and "kicking". It's worked so far for me !

(though I had to tell my boyfriend *not* to touch that plastic bag in the fridge or try to open it, as it has "fish food" in it. I couldn't tell him it was live worms - he'd have a fit!)

 

[CFC]

Bloodworm will keep up to a week in the bottom of the fridge just stored in the little bag of water they come in, the method your lfs desribed is the one freshwater anglers in England and Europe use to store large quantities of bloodworm (1/2 kilo and more) for use in winter tournements.

 

[Bloo]

ah ok, thanks well I have tried the first way (as you described) a few times in the past, and they generally end up really smelling
At least this way they don't smell at all and it's easy to scoop out a teaspoon at a time......however this time I also bought a much larger quantify (though certainly not 1/2 kilo!) but about a big fist full .

 

[maxpayne_lhp]

Well, anither way is keep them in a lil dry place, just lil water so that they won't be dehydrated. If you put them in a bowl of water, they'll die fast...