Feeding cichlids earthworms?

[Paulbearer]

I feed mine as a treat to my fish and have been doing it for over 30 years. Just have to know where they came from and don't get them from somewhere you know there might be something where they feed that might not be good for your fish (chemicals, etc...). Yes, if you feed them often they can get addicted to them, but this is the account for any food fed to fish that they really like. My chocolate and oscar love them, and so does my fire eel and HRP's. Heck even my Tinfoil barbs will eat them and it's quite amusing to watch them running around the tank with them in their mouths and trying to keep them away from the oscar and chocolate. Never have ever had an issue with them in all my years of feeding them every now in then (every other week or so).

 

[Chuncan]

Chase.... You can correct me once you have a thriving tank, and don't turnover your stock like every week. I'm just saying. If you want the best for your fish. Get the best food. Next to water quality it is the most important thing for thriving beautiful fish. PERIOD. I'm sure many MFKers will have my back. Just seems sketchy and sloppy to harvest worms from an uncontrollable environment.


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Psshhhhh my tank is thriving. My silver dollars are getting big and nothing has died in weeks. WINNING

 

[ckcdrummer]

Psshhhhh my tank is thriving. My silver dollars are getting big and nothing has died in weeks. WINNING

Um no chase last time I checked about to weeks ALL of your fish died... I would not call that a thriving tank


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[Fishboynick]

Silver dollars? Was that plural? In a 10gal?


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[Chuncan]

Those fish died a real long time ago, so your troll is dated. And yes nick there are 4 very small silver dollars in a 15 (me and caleb figured out it is a 15) with plenty of space and 2 small corys

 

[ckcdrummer]

Chase that wasn't long ago


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[Chuncan]

Almost a month


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[krichardson]

Silver dollars? Was that plural? In a 10gal?

Hahaha...guess the worm topic has run it's course?

 

[everlastace]

Hahaha...guess the worm topic has run it's course?

agreed! This thread started out as a question many of us have asked, and turned into high school dramafest! Feed them the damn worms and get over it! He took your girlfriend, get past it! There are plenty of fish in the sea! (metaphor) (but in the real sea, fish eat worms)

 

[skillzizzo]

this thread is turning into the rest of them on this site most of the time. But to answer your quistion yes it is safe to feed those types of warms. But would be better for your fish to feed frozen blood warm blocks from the fish store or ordered online to elimate the risk of desies. Or atleast to bring it to a minimum risk becuase it could still be possible. I have feed frozen and live blood warms when you can find them for years with no problems. I feed once a week for a tweat and just to mix it up and very good for color, also mises shrimp frozen would be good for them. To much of either is bad in this case once or twice a week tops in my personaull opion. good quility pellets the rest of the time. Hope this helps you out. And to who ever was flaming about him killing fish. This hobby is a learning process and we have all killed fish in the begining for sure. Thats what sites like these are for is help not bashing