Alright so my Fire eel won't eat anything but live blackworms. My LFS only sells like 1/4 of an ounce size of live blackworms at a time if that. It will last about a week for my eel, but they die quickly, even rinsing them once a day with chilled dechloronated water. Also it's a pain to drive 45-50 minutes each way once a week just to get a $1 thing of blackworms. I would buy more at a time, but they go bad too quickly. Still only equaling about a weeks worth. I only tried two at once so far. So I was wondering what's the best way to keep these buggers alive? It won't my much of a problem during the school year since it would only be about 10 minutes out of the way only drive back from university 5 days a week. But during these summer months it's quite a pain because I work so much. So suggestions please? Worst comes to worst I'll deal with it, but I would like to make things easier. Also, yes I am trying to get Apollo (the fire eel) onto frozen foods with little success. (I've only had him a month) he will nip at only bloodworms but won't devour them like live blackworms.
Keeping Blackworms
- Thread starter DMasker
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just buy a large amount of worms keep them in a plastic cat litter pan so they can spread out and arn't all on top of each other. Keep it in a refridgeratar. Rinse daily with cold water. You should be able to keep them for a long time
I keep them in a couple of 20"x20" tanks in 3" deep water.sand bottom and sponge filters.I vac them out of the sand once or twice a week and feed to the fish.the more often I change the water the faster they reproduce.I feed them fishfood or chicken feed.