Live foods??

[eklikewhoa]

I'm asian... we age really well.

[sunkenmetal]

back like 20yrs ago when I was raising arowanas I ordered mealworms or superworms and there was a "red" option.

Never cared to ask or look into it though.

How old are you?

[eklikewhoa]

back like 20yrs ago when I was raising arowanas I ordered mealworms or superworms and there was a "red" option.

Never cared to ask or look into it though.

[Totenkampf]

i saw some mealworms at city pets last weekend that were blood red... i wonder if he is feeding them canthazanthin (red lobster chitin) or some other natural coloring in advance? that would be a good idea, we often neglect to gut load live food for fish but its standard practice for herps.

[eklikewhoa]

That's what I have been reading.

I've fed my old arowana nothing but superworms in the past and never really knew there was also mealworms

[Totenkampf]

the key to superworms over mealworms "Superworms have a higher meat to chitin ratio than mealworms." not only does this make them more nutritious in my mind but there is another potential side effect from mealworms being more heavily armored. while i was at the dallas zoo, there were instances of mealworms living through being swallowed whole and then eating their way out of the herptile's stomach. the said herp was not amused by this

[eklikewhoa]

The black worm is 7lb min for the discounted price and the superworms are sold in kpacks.

[HERM]

I am looking to order bulk, I imagine the fish I have would take down a few ounces of blackworm a day and maybe a handful of super worms.

Let me know if you order , I'm in for a couple OZ's of each.

[eklikewhoa]

NVM...

http://tastyworms.com/blog/superworms-vs-mealworms-what-difference

[eklikewhoa]

What's the difference between superworms and mealworms?

[eklikewhoa]

I am looking to order bulk, I imagine the fish I have would take down a few ounces of blackworm a day and maybe a handful of super worms.

[wesleydnunder]

cool wesley, i was just reading a post about establishing blackworms in planted aquaria since MRoy brought that topic up elsewhere...did you do anything special to get them going?

Nope, just dropped 'em in for the fish to eat and some got away under the substrate in established themselves.

Mark

[Totenkampf]

cool wesley, i was just reading a post about establishing blackworms in planted aquaria since MRoy brought that topic up elsewhere...did you do anything special to get them going?

[wesleydnunder]

superworms are zophobas morio and are a terrestrial beetle larvae sometimes also called super mealworms. blackworms are a species of lumbriculus terrestrial worm which is closely related to the common earthworm. the later can live in water for a short period of time but does have lungs and will eventually drown. both are super nutritious foods with high crude protein to fat ratios. flash frozen is probably via liquid nitrogen and they wont be waking up again unlike a crayfish in your freezer might. you can sometimes find these at bait shops locally but they will be devoid of nutrition (raised on potatoes and such) and should be gut loaded

I fed live blackworms to my fish for several years while I was keeping discus. They don't drown... they can pull oxygen out of the water through their skin. I recently gave quoc a 36 bowfront that hadn't had live blackworms fed to it in over a year. When they started pulling the plants his buddy yelled, "Hey! There's worms in this tank!" They were still alive and growing in several tanks.

I was buying my live blackworms from Jungle Jim's in LaMarque. He was getting them from Robert's Tropicals.

Mark

[mnemenoi]

I know Houston Aquatics occasionally has live Blackworms. I have read they can get established in some planted tank substrates, though I have never successfully accomplished that. I'd certainly like to give it a shot and seed some tanks and see if they'll actually survive and accomplish another task... Here is a thread over at MFK