meal worms - fish love them

[messerchmidt]

hi all, been feeding my fish some meal worms instead of feeder goldfish as a treat and they seem to love them. guy at the store suggests them and they are high in protien while feeders are not. usually you feed mealworms to lizards,etc - but the fish dont mind them.

i posted a video shot with my olympus sw 1030.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BbV56oeBhE

yes i know i need a bigger tank for these guys! this is my fish rescue tank (everyone in there I was given or went to pickup from someone) now looking for a 220g+

Even the small jack demps got in on the action and grabbed some (although it took them while to chew and swallow the worm)

 

[H]-[H]

It's no surprise that fish love worms.. lol
Mine eats superworm like noodles..

 

[CODzilla]

I put mealworms in for my Oscars but my Silver Dollars get most of them the greedy pigs!

 

[CaranxIgnobilis]

Only fed mealworms to reptiles, but apparently my clown loaches love roaches. Found a skeleton of one floating around in my 125 when I cleaned it today. Gross.

 

[messerchmidt]

haha, these guys eat everything

 

[Noddy]

My Oscar only eats mealworms and other live bugs.
I read that in the wild 60% of an Oscars diet concists of bugs and worms and larvae that fall of the trees.
No wonder they like them.lol

 

[Err]

I gut load the large meal worms for my O's and aro. They also enjoy earthworms and crickets which I also gut load.

 

[SemperFish]

what do you gutload your bugs with? Ive been loading mine up with hikari gold.

 

[BadFishPa]

I feed color flakes and to my meal worms..

 

[Err]

what do you gutload your bugs with? Ive been loading mine up with hikari gold.

I just crush up some NLS pellets and I also put fruit/veggie scraps in with them and they eat it up.