feeding worms and nite crawlers

[threeguns]

I stopped by the bait and tackle store Saturday and picked up some red worms to feed to my Birchirs..2 Dez's ,2 retropinns and a Poly with a nefer endin apeatite but only one of the dez's ate the worms, matter a fact he ate 3 out of 6 worms and the others seemed to have little to no interest in this high protein food..and I dont know why: is it because of there very poor eye sight or the worms just didnt smell like food... some of the worms burrowed on to the gravel and I assumed they drowned over night ? or did they... Thanks ahead of time Wendell M

 

[Ancient_Fish_Master]

I stopped by the bait and tackle store Saturday and picked up some red worms to feed to my Birchirs..2 Dez's ,2 retropinns and a Poly with a nefer endin apeatite but only one of the dez's ate the worms, matter a fact he ate 3 out of 6 worms and the others seemed to have little to no interest in this high protein food..and I dont know why: is it because of there very poor eye sight or the worms just didnt smell like food... some of the worms burrowed on to the gravel and I assumed they drowned over night ? or did they... Thanks ahead of time Wendell M

the other polys probably dont like em, dont see anything wrong with that. also make sure you take out any un eaten worms. last thing you want is a dead worm rotting in your tank.

 

[ar0wan]

They'll come around if you do it often worms are all my tanks favorite
from wat I understand they can survive underwater for awhile
I know they do need to 'breathe' by exchanging O2 through they skin
like anything you don't want to feed moar than they'll eat immediately

 

[GarNiac]

give it another try when they're all hungry, or give nothing else but worms. Bichirs dont use their eye to hunt, they use their nosetrails.