Bloodworms: THE NAKED TRUTH

[TURBOFROG]

will try this idea......

[Eddie]

I mentioned this in another thread but thought I'd repeat it here too. This has been my issue too (except for some reason with my two pigeons that seem to eat everything).

I made a version of Eddie's mix a month or so ago but to little success at feeding time (no offense to Eddie, it's my discus, not his recipe).

What I decided to do recently was a moderate defrost of some PE Mysis shrimp, some Hikari Bloodworms and some of the earlier Eddie's mix I had made and still had in the freezer. The ratio for this batch was about 25%/25%/50%. I mixed them together in a tupperware bowl, then put the mush into a quart-sized ziploc freezer bag, laid it down, pushed the air out, sealed it, and flattened it all out to about 1/8-1/4" thick and froze that sheet. Now I break-off a chunk at feeding time and hand-feed to my 7 discus. At first they were not sure but were hungry so they tried a few pecks. As it slowly melted the mysis shrimp and FBW infused in the mix became evident to them and they went at it, devoured it and have done so since, pretty much eating all the other ingredients in my mix as well (shrimp, white fish, spinach, vitamin drops, spirulina flakes, garlic, paprika, omega super color flakes, NLS discus pellets and tetra color bits).

I plan to slowly cut back on the amount of FBW and Mysis shrimp in the mix over the next few batches maybe down to about 10/10/80 eventually. But for now I am not starving them to get them to eat something else, they are getting a good amount of a nice mix of foods including some greens and vitamins, yet still get have FBW and Mysis, which they seem to love. In the last 3 weeks of doing this they have colored up beautifully and seem to be more aggresive at feeding time, less shy in the tank over all and seem to have notched it up a bit in growth too.

No worries, some fish dont like it. Once they starve the fish out and get them on it....its an all around complete diet.

Eddie

[TURBOFROG]

Well just got back from LSF and bought some beef heart as well as frozen brine shrimp also picked up some Hikari multi-vitamin tubifex worms. Anyone ever use these?

[Eddie]

Well just got back from LSF and bought some beef heart as well as frozen brine shrimp also picked up some Hikari multi-vitamin tubifex worms. Anyone ever use these?

Probably want to skip out on using the tubifex, even though hikari is good about there sterilization, just too risky IMO. What kind of beefheart (brand). Might try to make your own one day, ts alot cheaper.

Eddie

[TURBOFROG]

Im going to to try making my own on the next round but for now I just got San Francisco brand

[Eddie]

Im going to to try making my own on the next round but for now I just got San Francisco brand

SF is decent as some claim, never tried it though. Skip the tubifex....very important.

Eddie

[TURBOFROG]

Right on.....ill take it back. thanks for the heads up Eddie!

[NanDiscus]

Skip the tubifex....very important. Eddie

You speak my words.

Nandi

[BOBT00LS]

There was a time when I fed nothing but Hikari Frozen Blood Worms to my discus. Yes they were all healthy but they just seemed to lack in size. When I say in size I mean thickness. Now my discus eat mainly several varieties of flake flood with an occaisonal treat of CBW or BH. The difference is very noticable. I still keep FBW on hand just for my breeders as they are a clean food and dont foul the water.


Bob

[amunoz7]

I too have only been feeding FBW to my 8 Discus and have noticed that they aren't getting as big as they should. I'll try flakes and BH tonight and see how they respond.

I know that my LFS carries BH but what kind of Flakes/Ganules should I buy?

[rich815]

I too have only been feeding FBW to my 8 Discus and have noticed that they aren't getting as big as they should. I'll try flakes and BH tonight and see how they respond.

I know that my LFS carries BH but what kind of Flakes/Ganules should I buy?

I can now say, only a little while after going with my mix as I outlined above, that my discus are growing at a MUCH faster rate then when I was primarily feeding them FBW.

[amunoz7]

I will try it thanks.

[tobalman]

How long can you leave these blood worms remain in the tank when uneat ?

Some of the blood worms got frostbites can I still use it ?

Thanks

[rich815]

How long can you leave these blood worms remain in the tank when uneat ?

Some of the blood worms got frostbites can I still use it ?

Thanks

Frostbites?

[tobalman]

Frostbites?

yes, sometimes when the package stay too long in my freezer, there were part that will cover with ice, same thing happend to your meat when they stay too long in freezer and exposed. The colour of these area sort of washout not as red as some others part.