I would agree that it is best food for fry, once enriched, but is it for large adult discus?
I do not enrich white worms. Do they really need to be enriched? I never read anything about the necessity to enrich white worm.
I never said it was not good, I would think it's the best food for fry because they are so small, but not necessary for adults.
In any case, a variety of food is the very best, so brine shrimps could be given with white worms etc and I am sure the fish would appreciate this.
The thread however was about white worms
that has always been my concern. Not so much to underdose but to overdose with med. What if you prepare tons of white worms with med and pretty much one or 2 fish eat most of it? not sure what woudl be an overdose. In any case, the medication will definitly not be spread equaly amoung fish.
When I need such med though, my fish usualy don't eat so that settle it.
hahha I will end my opinions from NOW ON WITH YOU.......YOU HAVE TO USE TRAILS AND ERRORS TO LEARN ABOUT DISCUS.
FRANCIS
Daniella,
Soak time is different depending on the medications. I usually soak till the worms are very
active and dump them straight into the tank, the medications are directly fed into the Discus's mouth
instead of diluted into the tank water, as I remember Jack Wattley use garlic instead
of metro, and only fed whiteworm to his best Discus. Just make sure all of the peat moss or/and dirt is out the worms before feeding(you know how to do this right?).
Vitamines I used were Centrum Silver(giving away my age), look at the exp.date.
Cliff
I have no clue how to remove the dirth from the worms. how do you do that? Do you mean from inside the worm or the dirt that is outside the worms? I just put them in water and they pile up toghether and then I can gather them and they are clean outside. but I do not know how to remove the dirt that is inside the wormws.
I fed them with the dirt inside so far, is that a problem?
Also I have started to dip my beefheart and frozen bloodworms in Seachchem Garlic Guard and the fish love it.
Last edited by Daniella; 06-02-2009 at 10:50 PM.
Hi Daniella,
I meant removing the dirt from outside the worms. I usually have a glass place on top of
the soil and the worms will stick to the glass. The worms are then place in a screen type strainer, above a bowl of water about 1/4" the worms will slowly make its way into the
clean water. You can also buyer one of those blue color worm storage container sold
at the LFS, the process is the same as the bowl with the water just a smaller scale.
Happy Feeding!
Cliff
I don't worry too much about getting a little dirt into my tanks. I figure it'll come out with the next wc and whatever pathogens that live in soil won't live long in the tank. Hope I'm not wrong! I've never tried the `glass' method and saran wrap sounds like quite a good idea. Let us know how it works. I just dig through the dirt looking for clumps of worms and remove them with my fingers. I consider it a lovely alternative to contemplating my naval.
Ok but what about the little dirt that is inside the worm? is it safe for pathogens? I guess it should not be a concern much or we would have heard about it before probably?
Saranwrap does not work very well, at least not on its own because it is notr rigid anough and does not stick to the soil much, so there is space in between an the worms don't stick to it at all. I only put it to keep humidity better but it is not helpfull in order to collect the worms. I will definitly get the glass.
As I understand it, the pathogens that live in dirt can not live in water. When dumped in water they will simply die and become - well - protein.