Bloodworms junk food? Not so fast.

[ryansmith83]

Anyone who kept discus and angels through the early and mid 2000s, pre-blackworm craze, knows that Hikari bloodworms are a perfectly good food. We discus hobbyists bought the huge flat packs 10 at a time. I fed bloodworms as a staple to discus, angels, rams, Uaru, and every other small and medium sized cichlid I raised, from small fry to adult size. My fish were healthy, sturdy, and bred like crazy. People can argue numbers all they want but the proof is always in your fish. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It was always news to me when people started trashing them because so many thousands of people were using them with great success in the discus hobby.

 

[neutrino]

Anyone who kept discus and angels through the early and mid 2000s, pre-blackworm craze, knows that Hikari bloodworms are a perfectly good food. We discus hobbyists bought the huge flat packs 10 at a time. I fed bloodworms as a staple to discus, angels, rams, Uaru, and every other small and medium sized cichlid I raised, from small fry to adult size. My fish were healthy, sturdy, and bred like crazy. People can argue numbers all they want but the proof is always in your fish. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It was always news to me when people started trashing them because so many thousands of people were using them with great success in the discus hobby.

What, no beef heart?

My discus days were late 80s to mid 90s-- small pellets, live brine shrimp almost daily, some bloodworms, and NO beef heart, ever. I raised big, healthy discus, including some of the early pigeon bloods in the hobby (early 90s), which were really robust fish-- mine were 9 inches. Not an exaggeration, they can get even larger. When I lived in New England I saw a 12" pigeon blood variant pair from New York they were calling Royal King, circa 1992. Discus can get bigger than most people think.