Bloodworm escaped

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pangasiusfan

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So I placed a whole live bloodworm in the tank but nobody ate it..
Are they nasty or something? I cut up a piece and it fell by the ID shark but didn't get it. But now the kribensis has the torn off piece in his mouth.

The thing is, the whole live piece burrowed in the gravel and theres no way for me to get it since it's in the cave. Are they going to be dangerous or something if it keeps on living?
I'm kinda scared of the worms eating the fish...like leeches(lol)


*sorry they're REDWORMS
 
ok now i'm really scared since there's was one dangling out of my koi's gills and my koi didn't seem to like it at all. i had to net him and get some tweezers to pull it out.
 
No, Red worms are not like a leach. It cannot harm your fish in any way. They are regular small worms. I'm pretty sure after burying itself in the gravel it will drown from being underwater for an extended period of time. Clean your tank with a gravel vac and you should find him..
 
thanks.
but now that i think of it, i thought i heard that you should tear off the heads of worms(any in general) before feeding to fish since the worms can eat the fish inside out!!
which way is the head though? is it the way crawling forward?
 
isn't that something said about things like mealworms, not something simple like bloodworms
 
ok thanks.

what about bloodworms though? i'm going to get an ounce on monday but again i'm worried of the leftovers..
and they'll disappear if i tear off both ends.lol
 
Bloodworms can bite. They can actually eat their way through you.
They get huge for a worm, and have teeth.
The frozen/freeze dried ones you buy are actually mosquito larvae, but actual bloodworms can look like small snakes.
 
pangasiusfan;1297027; said:
are you lying or not?
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Me ? Nope, not at all.
In fact, a couple days ago, I saw "Dirty Jobs" with Mike Rowe, and he was actually digging them up somewhere on a farm.
Some of them looked a foot long, and he let some of them bite him.
Said it felt like a really painful bee sting.

I've searched "bloodworms" in the past and found the things we use as fish food are not actual bloodworms.
 
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