Live Bloodworms...Worth Culturing?

[livinlifeinBKK]

Hey guys, so I had my Grindal worm (I think these are the same as white worms but I may be mistaken) culture crash and while I was looking online I saw live bloodworms for sale and was wondering if anyone here has experience with live bloodworms enough to know if they're worth culturing and how to culture them...I still plan on buying another culture of Grindal worms of course because the fish love those but does anyone feed live bloodworms? If so how crazy are the fish about them (and which fish)? Are they worth culturing as well?

 

[livinlifeinBKK]

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[Kmst80]

Hey guys, so I had my Grindal worm (I think these are the same as white worms but I may be mistaken) culture crash and while I was looking online I saw live bloodworms for sale and was wondering if anyone here has experience with live bloodworms enough to know if they're worth culturing and how to culture them...I still plan on buying another culture of Grindal worms of course because the fish love those but does anyone feed live bloodworms? If so how crazy are the fish about them (and which fish)? Are they worth culturing as well?

Definitely worth it, comes with a bit of housekeeping though. As Paul B said the best live food for fish. Mine love it after they were a bit hesitant at first.

My setup:
5 lt plastic container
Gravel just to cover bottom
Sponge filter
Airstone
Some java moss

I Change once a week 95 % water and feed them every other day with spirulina pills. I move the gravel around usually when I do the water change, that is to break them up so they multiply.
I get a feeding or two for my four fish a week out of that size.

 

[livinlifeinBKK]

Definitely worth it, comes with a bit of housekeeping though. As Paul B said the best live food for fish. Mine love it after they were a bit hesitant at first.

My setup:
5 lt plastic container
Gravel just to cover bottom
Sponge filter
Airstone
Some java moss

I Change once a week 95 % water and feed them every other day with spirulina pills. I move the gravel around usually when I do the water change, that is to break them up so they multiply.
I get a feeding or two for my four fish a week out of that size.

I'll have to ask Paul directly because a guy on another forum actually said Paul doesn't like them much...what fish do you feed them to? I'm primarily trying to entice some of the finicky species of Butterflies to eat high nutrition foods...some species love oysters but variety is always a good thing and I've heard some of the really difficult species will go for certain worms (usually white worms) but again, I'd like to have plenty of variety to offer them

 

[Kmst80]

I'll have to ask Paul directly because a guy on another forum actually said Paul doesn't like them much...what fish do you feed them to? I'm primarily trying to entice some of the finicky species of Butterflies to eat high nutrition foods...some species love oysters but variety is always a good thing and I've heard some of the really difficult species will go for certain worms (usually white worms) but again, I'd like to have plenty of variety to offer them

Paul even mentions them in his book and how they are one source of his healthy fish.
I feed them to 2 clowns, a coral beauty and a bristletooth. I feed my fish live blackworms, white worms, brine shrimp, copepods and supplement with frozen mysis/brine shrimp/copepods. And the bristletooth gets nori

 

[Kmst80]

Just realized you are talking bloodworms, i was talking blackworms. Did you mean blackworms or bloodworms.

 

[livinlifeinBKK]

Just realized you are talking bloodworms, i was talking blackworms. Did you mean blackworms or bloodworms.

Bloodworms... I have easy and cheap access to black worms

 

[livinlifeinBKK]

Funny enough, I had a few baby butterflies several months ago and they wouldn't go for the black worms... they went for the oysters though...but yeah I mean bloodworms