Today I was cleaning my outdoor pond and upon checking out the filter media for the first time in about 6 months I dicovered a colony of bloodworms. I was wondering if I should take some out to feed to my bichir, ctenopoma, and yo-yo loach, or leave them alone and to try and build up the colony more?
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alright i will go ahead and get those tonight to show what i found, but are there any suggestions to keep the colony going?
maybe just use some and then put the rest back to keep breeding. you could have a good free food source.
well there might be a problem...
when i cleaned the pond i might have killed the colony because when I went to take pictures they were all really pale and didn't look right, i think the water change put them into shock even though there was about a 10 degree difference
when i cleaned the pond i might have killed the colony because when I went to take pictures they were all really pale and didn't look right, i think the water change put them into shock even though there was about a 10 degree difference
My worms breed in a lightly aerated bucket with gravel on the bottom. I toss them veggies and bits of fish food every now and then. They are sold as California Blackworm, but who knows these days.
knifegill;5157864; said:
Blackworms and Bloodworms are different, and you can tell just by looking at them.
Bloodworm is a useless word that gets used to describe everything from midge fly larvae to tubifex to blackworm.
Most aquatic annelids are very similar. So even though I'm pretty sure my blackworm is the same as your blackworm, there's no way to be sure without a microscope and a worm expert. I also have a handful of tubifex worms in a different bucket. They are larger and brown with coiled innards, whereas the blackworm look solid red like an earthworm. Earthworms, by the way, are being taxonomically expanded to extremes.
Most aquatic annelids are very similar. So even though I'm pretty sure my blackworm is the same as your blackworm, there's no way to be sure without a microscope and a worm expert. I also have a handful of tubifex worms in a different bucket. They are larger and brown with coiled innards, whereas the blackworm look solid red like an earthworm. Earthworms, by the way, are being taxonomically expanded to extremes.
knifegill;5158382; said:
I spent $40 on 2 lbs of earthworms to get started.. then I started going outside and getting them out off the driveway when it rains, and now I am on 2 bins, almost a 3rd in less than 2 months! they breed like crazy, and they are huge!
