Still work though, but live is better if you can get them/breed them! (Or if you're rich enough to spend 50$ a week on them like I currently do... but I'm not at all rich...)
Live Black Worms: Miracle Grow for Fish.
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I use small lava rock and brown paper bags.
Stir the culture up to break them up, let sit for 5 minutes, then do a 75% water change
I feed mine discus gold from hikari and spinach. I gut load with a mix of rapashy super green and supervite/superpig for an hour before feeding.
http://bamboozoo.weebly.com/the-feeders--bugs.html
If you mean these black worms, then they appear to be 20% fat. If you mean something else, then, it would be helpful to identify them a little less generically.
Assuming it's these, then twenty per cent isn't something I'd consider healthy for fish as a staple food. Maybe you have data that contradicts the source I posted? Fast growth doesn't always mean healthy growth.
If you mean these black worms, then they appear to be 20% fat. If you mean something else, then, it would be helpful to identify them a little less generically.
Assuming it's these, then twenty per cent isn't something I'd consider healthy for fish as a staple food. Maybe you have data that contradicts the source I posted? Fast growth doesn't always mean healthy growth.
Bingo. A high protein/high fat trout chow can also produce very impressive growth gains in warm water ornamental species, but at what cost in overall health & longevity? I've never understood the fixation some have on power feeding, or the quest for overnight massive size gains. With fish growth, unless one is attempting to sell juveniles for financial gain, slow and steady is generally the most ideal manner in which to grow out a fish to maturity.
So, the LFS that I buy my worms from sells blood worms as well and has drastically different nutrition marked for each one. Also, I do sell my juveniles for profit. I have no problems with fish and long term health problems, my father has been importing these worms since 1990 with no health problems in his fish.
I don't know where that website gets its nutrition information, "black worms" as I've bought them are sold under a very different nutritional profile provided by the breeder. There is only one source in the US currently and I personally believe their information over "bamboozoo.weebly". Even if I was going to go with those stats, then it wouldn't matter because for multiple years now I've been using them with no health or growth problems with my fish. And personal experience always trumps "well the Internet says so".
Some clarification:
I breed and sell SA cichlids for profit currently.
I named the thread "miracle grow for fish". I feed this to fish to help them grow. Meaning when they aren't growing, their diets change.
i have about 25 adult severums (super reds, red shoulders, greens, golds, rokteils) in tanks that aren't being sold (I am getting out of breeding because of health issues.) and they were all grown out using this method and have no residual health issues.
If there is a way to edit threads I will make sure that "only for growing" is placed there in bold.
Some clarification:
I breed and sell SA cichlids for profit currently.
I named the thread "miracle grow for fish". I feed this to fish to help them grow. Meaning when they aren't growing, their diets change.
i have about 25 adult severums (super reds, red shoulders, greens, golds, rokteils) in tanks that aren't being sold (I am getting out of breeding because of health issues.) and they were all grown out using this method and have no residual health issues.
If there is a way to edit threads I will make sure that "only for growing" is placed there in bold.
