Eating White Worms

[AquaGirl]

Someone told me that white worms were way too large for CPD to eat.

I have many cultures of white worms and feed them to my other fish. The other night I took two white worms and dropped them into the CPD tank. To my surprise they ate them in less than a second and were searching the tank for more. Their mouths are not as small as I thought they were. :lol:

I am now adding white worms to their tank a few times a week and they go crazy for them. I am wondering what other type of live food they will eat. I already know that they will eat Micro worms and BBS.

Is anyone feeding things like wingless fruit flies? Any other type of live food?

[Carmon in NM]

My CPDs and goldrings both go crazy for daphnia. It’s fun to watch them hunting through the plants for those little buggers! I think things that move around are especially entertaining for them.

[AquaGirl]

I believe that feeding fish live food is essential for their well being, IMHO. They would be eating live food in the wild, not flake. I do realize that not everyone has live food available or wants to feed live food.

In the summer I put buckets of water with dead leaves outside. I harvest tons of mosquito larvae for my fish. Only problem is that you have to be diligent about collecting every day or risk making the neighbors mad because you are hatching mosquito’s.

I agree with you, they are entertaining to watch when they hunt down live food. They hunt down every one and never seem to miss any.

I have one friend that goes to stagnant water and harvests daphnia and glass worms. He will often find stagnant water and seed it with daphnia for collection. He is know all over our state as “the bug collector.” :lol: He makes a fortune by selling the live food to club members.

[BallAquatics]

@AquaGirl wrote:

In the summer I put buckets of water with dead leaves outside. I harvest tons of mosquito larvae for my fish.

You’re my kind of girl AquaGirl

Carmon, I’m with you too! I feed quite a few daphnia, the tiny ones moina. I like it that I can dump in a bunch and they will swim around until eaten – no problems with fouling the water.

For worms, the biggest I feed are grindal worms. They get to be around 1/2″ long. I’ve always been afraid that I couldn’t keep white worms cool enough in the summer.

As for mosquito larvae, I’ve been trying for the past couple of months to get my Ocelot Danios to spawn… no such luck. I’m hoping mosquito larvae will be what pushes them over the edge, I just need the weather to warm up a bit more.

Dennis

[AquaGirl]

@AquaGirl wrote:

In the summer I put buckets of water with dead leaves outside. I harvest tons of mosquito larvae for my fish.

@ballpc wrote:

You’re my kind of girl AquaGirl

Carmon, I’m with you too! I feed quite a few daphnia, the tiny ones moina. I like it that I can dump in a bunch and they will swim around until eaten – no problems with fouling the water.

For worms, the biggest I feed are grindal worms. They get to be around 1/2″ long. I’ve always been afraid that I couldn’t keep white worms cool enough in the summer.

As for mosquito larvae, I’ve been trying for the past couple of months to get my Ocelot Danios to spawn… no such luck. I’m hoping mosquito larvae will be what pushes them over the edge, I just need the weather to warm up a bit more.

Dennis

@ballpc wrote:

You’re my kind of girl AquaGirl

:lol: I always prefer feeding live food and free live food is the best. It also takes thousands of mosquitoes out of breeding circulation. Since I am real sensitive to mosquito bites I don’t mind collecting them at all for live food use. :lol: The temperatures have been bad here as well but on a bright note I did have a common house fly in the house over the weekend. It might be OK to set those buckets up now.

Hopefully, that will do it for the Ocelot Danios Dennis! I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you. If you can think of any other live food that might help and you can’t find it send me an email. I have access to all kind of neat live foods.

It is great that the daphnia stay alive and in the tank unlike the mosquito larvae that can hatch out in the house. :shock: Been there and done that!

Dennis……I had a thought…..imagine that! :roll: You know the Shirakura baby food that we feed the shrimp. What do you think about trying that for the CPD babies as an additional food source?

Lucky for me that my fish/shrimp room is in the basement and there is no carpet along the wall (I only have an indoor/outdoor carpet in the center of the floor.) so I set them single file along the cement floor/wall. They seem to have done good last summer using that space hopefully, they will do well again this year.

[BallAquatics]

@AquaGirl wrote:

Dennis……I had a thought…..imagine that! :roll: You know the Shirakura baby food that we feed the shrimp. What do you think about trying that for the CPD babies as an additional food source?

I’ve never used it, but is sounds promising.

I’m a big fan of Golden Pearls. It comes in sizes down to 5-50 microns and is perfect for tiny Danio fry.

Dennis

[AquaGirl]

I just thought that I could use it up since I found that even a little in a shrimp tank is too much. My only concern…..what exactly is in it???

I guess since I am feeding a very varied diet to the fry it would be OK to try. I’ll let you know how it goes.

[MoeBetta]

I’m not familiar with white worms, but my CPDs have been known to steal a black worm here and there. I’ve noticed no ill effects.

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