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Worm Farming-Live fish food
Asked Mar 24, 2010, 12:21 PM
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8 Answers So I'm wanting to start ''worm farming'' with earthworms as a renewable source of live food for my fish. Is this safe? Also could I dig some up in my backyard or should I buy some from a bait store? And does anyone have any tips? Thanx |
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| There is nothing wrong with the worms from your backyard, rex's mom, in fact you can propogate some you do find in a bin, in a shady spot in your garden and feed them compost and some good earth. Its called vermiculture mainly for people with a small property who want instant compost. This method I know I am describing will work for you without you digging them up every night. Get them at night with a flashlight. Tick | ||||
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| The only problem with feeding live food from unknown sources with fish, is the fish has no built up immune system to fight off any type of infection, bacteria or any other type of disease. If you want to feed your fish the more natural diet... Petstore sell healthy earth worms that are fed a filler that benefits the fish, they also sell the frozen blood worms that are garanteed to be sterlized. What type of fish do you have? | ||||
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Unfortunately, the closest petstore(where I purchase all my fish) is 2 hours away. So I can't buy food regularly there. I own 1 mystery snail, 1 black apple snail, 1 pleco, 1 blood parrot cichlid, 2 silver dollar tetras, 2 african clawed frogs and 2 peacock eels. | ||||
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| You can always order online. Fish & Pond Supplies | Aquarium & Garden Pond Specialists You can also grow brine shrimp... The only fish that really required a meat based diet is the parrot fish, which would be bloodworms... The silver dollars would benefit from the brine shrimp and some fresh veggies. You can put in a stem of Romane lettuce for the silver dollars and snails or even a chunk of zuccini that you can sink to the bottom. The two frogs and eels, they're just bottom scavangers, they'll eat just about anything. But they would probably enjoy the brine shrimp/blood worms as well | ||||
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Could I use some regular letuce instead of romain? | ||||
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| Iceberg lettuce holds no nutritional value. Romane lettuce is very similar to the natural greens found in the wild. Unfortunately, if its green, it doesn't all work. Just like cucumber will cloud your water up quicker then zuccini | ||||
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