How often do you feed frozen bloodworms or no limit?

[Frank Castle]

My fish LOVE them and I have a LOT........is every other day cool or should I cut them back? Are they just pure protein or do they have bad stuff in them too? Do you drop them in frozen or thaw them before opening? At what point is it futile to feed them because bigger ones eat a whole cube in ONE BITE? Are live bloodworms from the tackle shop safe or even better to feed them? Are there other frozen foods that should only be given in limited quantities (I heard something about beefheart) ???

 

[Hoplo]

From what I remember reading the problem with blood worms is that they contain try little goodness, so it is best to feed them only occasionally, with the majority of the diet being somethign that is better for the fish. (it is like eating hot chips, they are great to eat occasionally, but you can't eat them all the time)

As for how to feed them the water they come in is high in (phosphates?) So I have always put them in a very small sieve and rinsed them in clean water before throwing them in the tank for fish to eat.

 

[predatorkeeper87]

unless you are soaking them in boyds vitachem, think of them as a junk food. ok occasionally or if the fish is picky and not eating anything else at the moment, but not a staple. My darters, sculpins and daces get blood worms every day, but after they all get tilapia or shrimp and always soaked in vitachem.

 

[Southjerseycichlidz]

I have some koi angels I'm growing out and they get blood worms twice a day they grow insanely fast on them it's the hikari bloodworms so there is already vitamins and what not in it

 

[predatorkeeper87]

I have some koi angels I'm growing out and they get blood worms twice a day they grow insanely fast on them it's the hikari bloodworms so there is already vitamins and what not in it

I feed hikaris version too and I'd still not recommend them as a staple without a good vitamin soak.

 

[HumanBean]

Four times but supplemented by tilapia or cut up shrimps. Some of the fish are crazy and won't eat anything. Two of my pike cichlids lepidota and lenticulata wont eat anything except this. Lepidota was totally fine when but lenticulata was dififcult only live then gradialy cane to blood worms

 

[fishnatics]

I feed them twice a week once a day along with flakes and pellets as main food for my geos and tiger barbs. For my cats I feed a mixture of pellets with 1 feeding a week of cut frozen silversides. I always thaw mine out before feeding.

 

[Fish Tank Travis]

I have two fire eels that I feed frozen bloodworms every evening. Currently, this is all they eat but as soon as they are big enough to eat earthworms I will be trying to switch them over.

I use one cube and thaw it out in a glass with a tiny bit of warm/hot water. I swirl it around for a few minutes, until they are all thawed, and then dump them in the tank and let my eels go crazy. They never leave any behind and they are very good at searching every nook and cranny to find all the bloodworms that get caught in the plants and on the substrate.

 

[Hendre]

i feed bloodworm to my goldfish once a week (3 cubes) and to my betta (3worms)
as a nice little diversion from gel food and pellets

 

[souzie]

I don't anymore but when my p's were smaller, I fed them BW once a week. A couple of cubes thawed at room temperature and dropped in the tank. They all seemed to like it except for my biggest one so I stopped since I didn't want him to go hungry and start eating the others.

It was fun to watch though cause they ate it like spaghetti!