Is it good to feed your fish with Earthworms?

[dogofwar]

I feed earthworms, red worms, and super (meal) worms to my fish regularly, especially when I'm conditioning cichlids for spawning.

I dip earth and red worms in water to get the external dirt off...otherwise I just drop them in (or tear them into pieces for smaller fish).

There's nothing better than live food!

 

[xiahaolong168]

my fish love them, but they are really messy. i feed them earthworms every once in a while...

 

[shenzhenluohan]

I use worms for composting, so I will once or twice a week give everyone a treat, or use them to condition my breeding stock. Great source of protien, and EVERYTHING at my house is organic.

 

[gomezladdams]

I started a red wiggler bin to keep my fish fed with worms,so far so good.A little smaller that nightcrawlers they are easier to feed to the medium sized fish.

 

[Stump]

I always have earthworms or nightcrawler on hand. They are the staple of my BGK and Striped Peacock eel. That's really all my eel will eat.

My bichirs I bought last week LOVE them. Actually all my fish do. Not one of them can turn down an earthworm.

 

[aro_fish]

alright now its time to go digging out all the earthworms lol

 

[bmthomps84]

I just recently picked some up for my fish and they LOVED them. It's like lady and the tramp all over again when the two convicts get a hold of one.

 

[FSM]

according to that chart, earthworms have loads of fat but nightcrawlers have very little.

 

[krichardson]

Here's the chart.

Thats an interesting chart,I heard thatthe pesticides would deter the worms away from a treated area or it would drain down through the soil and kill them.The nightcrawlers seem to have less fat cotent.

 

[redchaser]

I see that both nightcrawlers and earthworms are pretty decent in the calcium dept. This is good info, thanks for the chart