bait store nightcrawlers?

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
Read the packaging, last ones I bought from a machine here (Fla.) said they had a chemical in with the bedding to increase shelf life. Harmless to humans (but I won't eat them anyway:D ), but didn't say anything about fish...


Have you tried a cold frame outside, might be able to get worms for a couple of weeks more barring a freeze.

I thought we had someone selling worms on here for rays?

Found it...http://www.mcgavinwormfarm.com/

Dr Joe

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I use them.The local bait distributer says they come from organic soybean farms in canada,nothing added.
 
wizzin;571935; said:
in my part of the world, they have these nightcrawler machines in darn near every convience store. It's like a little fridge with cups of live nightcrawlers. They're cheap, like a $1 for 24 crawlers. I've been tempted to buy them to feed my fish, but wasn't sure for some reason. Now that it's cold, I can't get the crawlers outside anymore. What do you guys think? bait shop nightcrawlers ok?
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EXCELLENT!!!
AT that price you'd have to be well just flat out COY to not :D
 
WOW nightcrawlers here are $2.50 for a dozen! (at the bait shop)
I use them to feed my Tire Track.
 
i use them to feed my fish and axolotl with no probs. they are about 2$ for 24 HUGE night crawlers. i cut them up for the fish but axie gulps down a 6 " worm no prob.

i keep the worms in the fridge, kind of gross they are crawling around in there same as my food .
 
My CK eats 1 crawler a day. He is about 6-7 inches now. My JD also eats crawlers. I have a 5 inch African Cichlid that wont touch crawlers though. He only eats krill.
 
The worms thrive on banana peels, too. Not sure what's in them that is so nutritional, but when I was living/working on an organic farm, we kept an old case freezer full of "clean" dirt, worms, and threw it banana peels and other organic stuff. The worms were fat and juicy; did a great job of aerating the raised bed soil.
 
only certain worms eat food and starches. Nightcrawlers however eat dirt and compost. That is why the dirt they come in is so black and full of nutrients, because they eat it and poop it out. To keep night crawlers which are large earth worms you just need the soil to be slightly moist but not wet because they breathe through their skin and will drown. If you keep them in the fridge they last longer than if you don't. In the fridge they go into a hibernate like state and can live for weeks. I feed them to my pacus all the time. they are alright( no poison or injection of chemicals).
 
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