Worms as feeders

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Worms make good food for many fish, although it depends on the individual fish and what its diet consists of in the wild. I wouldn't recommend silk worms though, since they will contain silk inside them which can't be that great for the fish to digest.
I wouldn't recommend tubifex worms either, since they are known to come from area's contaminated with raw sewage and live tubifex worms can pass internal parasites onto fish.

 

[guppy]

Actually silk worms are great food as are tomato worms, caterpillars like silk worms produce a precursur to silk, the silk itself forms only on contact with air.

 

[virgildonatifan]

I have recently read that silk worms eat the mullberry leaves so the can build up proteien for their life as a pupa. does this mean that the built proteien in the silk worm can be used just as it is by the fish(in a positive,growing way of course)?

And I know that extra proteien will be discarded,will this effect my water? Will it be good or bad?

 

[Mystix212]

Only if you had imporper filtration would it effect your water in a chemical way. Visually, perhaps. Only if you fed too much too quickly.

When animals eat food, what ever they are eaten by then gains all the nutrients from the 'leaves' the insect ate. Its like gut-loading. Its just load you may gut load your crickets/goldfish/guppies for extra nutrition for your fish.