Night crawlers Nutritional Value
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I use red wigglers...drop a couple dozen in a worm bin...give them veggie scraps from the table and a couple of months...and you'll have tons.
They're smaller than crawlers so smaller fish can eat them. And they don't need to be refrigerated...
Matt
They're smaller than crawlers so smaller fish can eat them. And they don't need to be refrigerated...
Matt
Ones results feeding earthworms may vary depending on the application.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/l6610304843824t2/
http://www.springerlink.com/content/l6610304843824t2/
Abstract
Whole frozen earthworms (Eisenia foetida) were evaluated as a partial replacement for commercial pellets for rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss. Earthworms wereblanched
and treated with concentrated sodium chloride (10%). Fish were submitted to four treatments: control fish were fed with a commercial diet and three groups of fish were fed with diets partially supplemented with earthworms. All fish showed the same appetite for the earthworm-supplemented diets as for the control diet during the course of the experiment (8 weeks). No significant differences (p > 0.05) were detected in the mean final body weights of all groups of fish. A significant decrease was found in the whole-carcass lipid content of fish fed diets containing 25%, 50% and 75% frozen earthworms. The results on growth rate and feed utilization efficiency of fish fed diets containing high levels of whole frozen worms suggested an adverse effect of worm incorporation, probably due to dietary energy/protein imbalance.
I love red wrigglers. Especially the fact that they do fine at room temperature, and there's no cutting needed for smaller fish. I have a batch growing in a little plastic sterlite bin. My fish love them as snacks.