earth worms vs black worms

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tonyt

tonyt

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Ive been feeding my motoro and my new hysterix rays fresh dug red wigglers about every other day . I wanted to know if that was much better than feeding them the much smaller black worms as far as nutrition and packing on weight,The motoro eats every thing , cut fish,shrimp,pellets but the hysterix wont yet and is getting colder for diging worms . even mixing it and letting soak with the worms they still just mouth the other food and spit.
and since ive got small gravel for a bottom Those tiny worms will just get lost.
 
I would tend to believe that earthworms have more nutrition, but have no proof. You should try Bing or Google and see what you get.
 
earthworms provide more nutrition than blackworms, as well as giving you more inexpensively. blackworms are a pup food mainly, due to the fact that they're small enough for pups to fit into their mouths, and living, which pups can sense with their disc, to catch/eat. if the ray is big enough to eat up even cut up earthworms, it tends to be a good choice.
just be careful, as it is still legal in places to use pesticides and such that the earthworms can absorb. find out if your area allows pesticides or not. ontario for instance, does not allow pesticides to be used, so the worms would be safer to dig from the ground.
 
tonyt said:
can you send me any info on cultureing them? mine are coming from a compost/flower garden area. no poisen there.
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Many of the commercially available composts have fertiliser built in to them, you also do not know the origin. I have read before that it can take 5 years before unfertilised dirt returns to normal where it is safe to use the worm as a food. Therefore I would buy worms from a bait shop and start a colony in a wormery....just use google as the Internet is full of ways to create a worm farm.
 
Just google "Red wiggler culture" and you'll find all you want...

I basically use nested rubbermaids with holes in the top one for air circulation and leachate drainage...bought my worms from an organic farm in southern Maryland I found on Craigslist...

I haven't bought live or freeze dried food in years...

Matt

Just Toby said:
Many of the commercially available composts have fertiliser built in to them, you also do not know the origin. I have read before that it can take 5 years before unfertilised dirt returns to normal where it is safe to use the worm as a food. Therefore I would buy worms from a bait shop and start a colony in a wormery....just use google as the Internet is full of ways to create a worm farm.
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