Live foods??

[Totenkampf]

i was under the impression that they had lungs due to requiring shallow well aeriated water...turns out thats wrong. they breathe through their skin. not sure if that would make them aquatic though.

[eklikewhoa]

So no one knows where to get other live foods in a good size bulk locally?

something more cost effective than the tiny tubs of superworms/earthworms

[sunkenmetal]

So no one knows where to get other live foods in a good size bulk locally?

something more cost effective than the tiny tubs of superworms/earthworms

start digging... My dachshunds dig up earthworms all the time and eat them lol

[eklikewhoa]

I need them by the handfuls

[sunkenmetal]

I need them by the handfuls

well then I need to train my damn dogs to dig them up for me lol

[eklikewhoa]

or not to eat them after they've dug them up.

[sunkenmetal]

or not to eat them after they've dug them up.

They don't eat them right away they play with them first lol

[CRUSHER]

i've never bought black worms, but i get my superworms from Petco, City Pets, Xtreme Fish & Pets and Fish & Pets Unlimited... i get crickets from them also

[CRUSHER]

I also order online other types of worms and catipellars from Mulberry Farm... http://mulberryfarms.com/cart.html & Roaches from... http://www.theroachguy.com/

[Totenkampf]

So no one knows where to get other live foods in a good size bulk locally?

something more cost effective than the tiny tubs of superworms/earthworms

i dont know any place specifically since i havent looked in a while but you would be surprised what you can find in a bait shop

[mnemenoi]

I know Houston Aquatics occasionally has live Blackworms. I have read they can get established in some planted tank substrates, though I have never successfully accomplished that. I'd certainly like to give it a shot and seed some tanks and see if they'll actually survive and accomplish another task... Here is a thread over at MFK

[wesleydnunder]

superworms are zophobas morio and are a terrestrial beetle larvae sometimes also called super mealworms. blackworms are a species of lumbriculus terrestrial worm which is closely related to the common earthworm. the later can live in water for a short period of time but does have lungs and will eventually drown. both are super nutritious foods with high crude protein to fat ratios. flash frozen is probably via liquid nitrogen and they wont be waking up again unlike a crayfish in your freezer might. you can sometimes find these at bait shops locally but they will be devoid of nutrition (raised on potatoes and such) and should be gut loaded

I fed live blackworms to my fish for several years while I was keeping discus. They don't drown... they can pull oxygen out of the water through their skin. I recently gave quoc a 36 bowfront that hadn't had live blackworms fed to it in over a year. When they started pulling the plants his buddy yelled, "Hey! There's worms in this tank!" They were still alive and growing in several tanks.

I was buying my live blackworms from Jungle Jim's in LaMarque. He was getting them from Robert's Tropicals.

Mark

[Totenkampf]

cool wesley, i was just reading a post about establishing blackworms in planted aquaria since MRoy brought that topic up elsewhere...did you do anything special to get them going?

[wesleydnunder]

cool wesley, i was just reading a post about establishing blackworms in planted aquaria since MRoy brought that topic up elsewhere...did you do anything special to get them going?

Nope, just dropped 'em in for the fish to eat and some got away under the substrate in established themselves.

Mark

[eklikewhoa]

I am looking to order bulk, I imagine the fish I have would take down a few ounces of blackworm a day and maybe a handful of super worms.