Just picked up this little guy

[DRteugelsi]

Earth worms, Night crawlers and Red wigglers. I live in a very rural area and just collect my own. Or buy from a local that sells them for bait.
I just chop them up in bite size chunks and feed them a piece at a time with tweezers but you dont have to do it like that. Thats just what I do.
I chose to do it like that so no certain fish would get to much at one time, they will over eat if you let them.

My only worry with that is parasites. I've heard of cases of people having problems with wild caught worms. I live in a pretty rural place myself so I might consider this though.

 

[BIG-G]

My only worry with that is parasites. I've heard of cases of people having problems with wild caught worms. I live in a pretty rural place myself so I might consider this though

Well you may have a point. But the way I think about it are worms along with a lot of other things are a natural food source for most fish. I believe that if they have existed for millions of years by eating these things then it shouldn't hurt them. I dont think we have to much to worry about. I did read some where that the parasites that infect worms will not effect fish.

 

[BIG-G]

I thought I did read somewhere that most parasites that earthworms carry dont really affect fish but I couldn't find anything to that point so I may have been mistaken.
I have been searching the web to try to find some info on feeding worms to aquarium fish and parasitic infection being passed to the fish from the worms.
I couldn't find any real precise studies on the topic.
But I did find this: https://fishprofiles.com/profiles/diseases/Intestinal_worm_infection/100018/

 

[dan518]

I have not heard of parasites being passed from earthworms to fish, just be careful about pesticides being used where your collecting them