Is it safe to feed feeder crickets and compost worms to my cichlids?

[dogofwar]

The ones being sold as "red wigglers" by the link I provided and By Unclejim's worm farm are readily accepted by every fish I've ever tried to feed them to...whole or broken into pieces...straight out of my bin.

I just fed them about 30 minutes ago to an array of cichlids, livebearers and catfish.

Quite a few people in CCA (Capital Cichlid Association) culture them and I've yet to hear any issues.

I also recently spoke Mike Hellwig, who literally wrote the book on live food, at a recent fish club meeting.

If you don't believe me, try it yourself Happy to mail you some for the cost of shipping!

Matt

Those are all fetida. You chop them up and the fish still eat them? I'm curious because some of the people I hold in high regard as far as fish keepers have mentioned their fish won't eat fetida. Rebellus is what used to be known as the red wriggler back in the day. I am not sure when the switch came about, but fetida hit the market and now rebullus is hard to find. A lot of fishermen even complain about fetida, saying fish don't bite them as well as other worms.