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Many of my fish seem to not like tubifex worms(frozen or freeze dried. What fish do you have experiences with that likes them??

In my tanks, only neons and white cloud mountain minnows seemed to like them. Thank you for the input.

I have not used live worms or any other live foods in my tanks for years as I do not trust where they come from and can easly import too many problems into your tank.

I regually feed three times a week frozen blood worms and they are eaten very quickly.

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Mine don't care for them either unfortunately.

For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. - Terry Pratchett

I used Live worms in my tank and the fish tore it up! I now have Freeze Dried Bloodworms that are popular especially with my Rainbow Tetra's and Red Wag Platy.

My Cherry Barbs and Glo-lite tetras also seem to enjoy them but don't flock as fast as the other fish.

Once in a while, some will last long enough for my Aeneus Catfish to get to them. But, not often . . . haha

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I just recently go some tubifex worms too and almost no fished like em at all... My guppies took a few even my pig angel don't take em. Now the worms are just frozen in my freezer until further notice



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My fish are pigs, they eat anything. Frozen, freeze dried, live, flake, pellet, tablet, you name it, they wolf (or, fish) it down

I put 4 tubifex cubes on the glass usually, all at different heights along the tank, and by the time i stick the 3rd or 4th one on, the first one has been ripped off the glass and demolished.

My only fish that doesn't seem to like tubifex is my Angel. But you might find that its just the fish's own personal preference. You might find someone else that feeds his or her angels tubifex regularly.

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i heard that tubiflex worms have a higher risk of badness, so i stopped feeding them this. but i use to feed it only to guppies and they loved it.

There is a difference between LIVE tubifex (which I wouldn't touch with a 10' pole) and FD Tubifex (which my fish find wholly unappetising)

there is little to no risk in feeding FD foods to your fish.

For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. - Terry Pratchett

My Betta will eat the FD ones if you break them off the cube. The other fish won't touch them though. IMO they just make a mess.

*Kristin*

If you are looking for a live treat to feed your fish, ask your LFS if they have blackworms. The California blackworm, or mudworm, lumbriculus variegatus, is not a tubifex and is native to North America. They are guaranteed to prime fish for spawning. My discus, rams and corys get excited when I bring the blue worm box to the tank...

See: http://www.carolina.com/tips/worm/worm.asp



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My fish are divided, the barbs will eat ANYTHING, then all of a sudden they quit, they realize it's the wrong food I guess, they LOVE frozen bloodworms the best. My krib will take some then stop, same with the danios, my betta hates them and the harlies don't seem to like them either. I myself am not fond of them, they don't stick to the glass at all and when I rehydrate them they are such a mess, almost clog the filter, I only feed them before a water change, then I can get the leftovers out quickly.

Soon my fishies will get a taste sensation, I will be trying live shrimp sometime soon I hope, getting the right temp for hatching overnight will be a trick, but it will be worth it, they've only had frozen as a sub for live.

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i have not fed tubafex in years because i learned the chace of diease they carry. my fish do like frozen blood worms and live brine shrimp are their favorite, even my oscar loves brine and you would think they were too small to even get his attention.


chris

The frozen gamma irradiated tubifex are fine for use , the risks of disease is tiny, but I tend to avoid them purely becuase they make such a mess of the tank, and make the filter media and sponges produce a lot of sticky slime, and this means having to clean them sooner. A lot of fish are irritated by them because of the difficulty of eating them, ive seen fish and larval amphibians alike have tubifex protruding from the gills when trying to swallow them and its noticeably uncomfortable , so i tend to chop the frozen cubes up before I throw them in to shorten the length of the worms.The cories are the only fish I have that consistantly love them, the others all go for bloodworm , brineshrimp, and glassworm over the tubifex, and that suits me fine.

Id avoid live tubifex though, because live ones retreating into the substrate and dying there sounds like an ammonia spike waiting to happen.

tubifex worms would be so much better IF they werent so messy! having large fish doesnt help tho, for the tubifex worms flow straight out of there gills! my discus however loved them

I haven't fed live Tubifex to my fishes, but freeze-dried ones my Pandas LOVE ... and for some strange reason so do my Otocinclus ... yet my Cardinals seem indifferent to them.

My technique for feeding the Pandas FD Tubifex is this. I have a curiously shaped lead weight that has little tabs on it (I bought a bait cage from a fishing tackle shop and prized the lead weight off) which holds the cube in place nicely. Pop the whole on the end of a string, lower into the aquarium, hey presto, Tubifex feeder for catfishes.

The advantage of this method is that the Pandas and Otocinclus have to spend time pulling individual worms out of the mass, and so, the cube has chance to absorb water while they're doing this. This means that they don't suffer from bad stomach inflation when they eat the worms, because by the time they've pulled a worm out of the mass, the worms have absorbed a fair amount of water.

Strange how my Otocinclus love these too ...




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