Post by MADMIKE on Nov 6, 2006 16:30:08 GMT -5
California Blackworm Factoids
Origin California Blackworms
Food Trout wastes or commercial foods
Temperature Refrigerate
Longevity Lives for months in fridge
Longevity in aquarium Burrows into substrate and colonizes
Biggest Threats Overcrowding, warm or too deep water
Water Rinse often
Live Foods Taste Better: Still, fishes love live foods. They like foods they can wrestle with. Some fishes will only eat live or frozen foods. No question but what bettas prefer live foods. Breeders just gotta munch wiggling blackworms even when they’re already full.
Tubifex -- the Other Red Meat: Tubifex worms come from less than desirable neighborhoods. They come from sewage lagoons and run off from animal confinement areas -- not fun places to be mucking about. Actually, they help clean the nasty water. Still, we prefer our tubies from the freezer or in the freeze-dried form. And it’s not tubiFlex worms. That was a food in a tube that disappeared decades ago -- even before Mr. Peabody invented the Wayback Machine. Still, the name lives on.
Iowa Tubifex Worms: You betcha you can find tubifex worms in Iowa. You just don’t want to put your hands in that water. There used to be worm men that harvested and sold these critters. We had only moderate success keeping them alive. And dead tubifex worms really reek. We succeed much better with the blackworms.
Cloudy Water: If your worm water clouds up, rinse your worms again
Little bitty bumblebees go all a-buzz for blackworms
Origin California Blackworms
Food Trout wastes or commercial foods
Temperature Refrigerate
Longevity Lives for months in fridge
Longevity in aquarium Burrows into substrate and colonizes
Biggest Threats Overcrowding, warm or too deep water
Water Rinse often
Live Foods Taste Better: Still, fishes love live foods. They like foods they can wrestle with. Some fishes will only eat live or frozen foods. No question but what bettas prefer live foods. Breeders just gotta munch wiggling blackworms even when they’re already full.
Tubifex -- the Other Red Meat: Tubifex worms come from less than desirable neighborhoods. They come from sewage lagoons and run off from animal confinement areas -- not fun places to be mucking about. Actually, they help clean the nasty water. Still, we prefer our tubies from the freezer or in the freeze-dried form. And it’s not tubiFlex worms. That was a food in a tube that disappeared decades ago -- even before Mr. Peabody invented the Wayback Machine. Still, the name lives on.
Iowa Tubifex Worms: You betcha you can find tubifex worms in Iowa. You just don’t want to put your hands in that water. There used to be worm men that harvested and sold these critters. We had only moderate success keeping them alive. And dead tubifex worms really reek. We succeed much better with the blackworms.
Cloudy Water: If your worm water clouds up, rinse your worms again
Little bitty bumblebees go all a-buzz for blackworms