Earthworms as food?

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Dan F

Dan F

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How nutritious are earthworms?

I have an 11" TSN that will only eat earthworms and feeders. He was gobbling down pellets at the LFS but won't touch them now :(

I searched a little but didn't find much on the subject, sorry if this is a repost.
 
Earthworms are a great food source for fish. I'm sure you quartintine your feeders or breed your own? I'd try seeing if he likes crayfish or maybe market shrimp and tilapia fillets. Usually fish that don't eat pellets just won't unless they are starved and no one likes doing that to their fish.:)
 
scubasteve06;1851247; said:
Earthworms are a great food source for fish. I'm sure you quartintine your feeders or breed your own? I'd try seeing if he likes crayfish or maybe market shrimp and tilapia fillets. Usually fish that don't eat pellets just won't unless they are starved and no one likes doing that to their fish.:)
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I do quarantine my feeders for my fish. My common snapper gets them straight from the LFS...

I've always fed earthworms to my big fish, but since this fish isn't eating much else I was curious what people thought.

Crayfish is a good idea, plenty around this time of year. I assume I should quarantine wild-caught crawdads, but for how long? They're tricky to keep, they climb out if you don't have a good lid.

I'm hoping he might start eating pellets again once he is good and settled in. He was wolfing them down in the crowded LFS tank!
 
How long has he been in your tank?

If he was eating pellets at the lfs (and you said 'gobbling' them down), you shouldn't have introduced him to feeders at all. I know it's a temptation that's hard to resist but you should have held out.
 
balton777;1851287; said:
How long has he been in your tank?

If he was eating pellets at the lfs (and you said 'gobbling' them down), you shouldn't have introduced him to feeders at all. I know it's a temptation that's hard to resist but you should have held out.
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Yeah, I should have let him get hungry, but it was too tempting, like you said! :nilly:

ar0wan;1851459; said:
be careful :)

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=125845&highlight=worm
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That's funny (I hope his RTC doesn't suffer any ill effects), but I dig my own worms.:ROFL:
 
One of my salmon-tail catfish is going through the same thing at the moment. He used to eat anything I put in the tank, but then about a month or so ago just stopped eating. Now he will eat nothing but earthworms.
 
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