I recently started feed my big fish "Canadian nightcrawlers" from Walmart. It just occurred to me that they are supposed to be used as bait, not fish food.
Any thoughts/experience?
Any thoughts/experience?
is it safe to feed nightcrawlers?
- Thread starter peathenster
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I pull earthworms, as well as grubs, right out of the yard and feed them to my tank. I don't use any pesticides or fertilizers, so I don't worry about it. It just depends on how they raise them, if that's something you could find out. Honestly, I wouldn't worry a bit about it. Think about it, you feed them to the fish YOU eat.
Wish I could get "organic worms" toopdbrady;3430900; said:
I guess the commercial ones are probably farm raised....pesticides and fertilizers are almost inevitable...nice snook btw
Thankspeathenster;3430979; said:Wish I could get "organic worms" too
nice snook btw
. That's a good possibility. However, I've fed redworms, blackworms, and some others that I bought for ornamental fish, and they were positively farm raised. They even had the same plastic cup packaging as nightcrawlers for fishing.i prefer farm raised due to the farm-raised type are cleaner than the earthworm in my back yard. farm-raised do not mess up your tank as much as those out in the wild of nature.
Just be careful they are not injected with any type of dye.. I've heard some for BAIT can come that way.
I was buying night crawlers from a local bait-shop, was using them for a while for my large jag, but decided to stop.
I guess the main reason I did was because I was afraid he might catch a parasite or something.
He's on Massivore, freeze-dried-krill and thawed silversides, doesnt seem to be missing the worms.
I was buying night crawlers from a local bait-shop, was using them for a while for my large jag, but decided to stop.
I guess the main reason I did was because I was afraid he might catch a parasite or something.
He's on Massivore, freeze-dried-krill and thawed silversides, doesnt seem to be missing the worms.
