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- From: harold@wam.umd.edu (James B. Harold)
- Subject: Re: Red Worms as Fish Food?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.131328.10456@wam.umd.edu>
- Keywords: fish, food, worms, composting
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:13:28 GMT
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- In article <1k1vgoINNrqd@access.usask.ca> goldie@herald.usask.ca (Hugh Goldie) writes:
- >I have just ordered some "red wiggler" worms for use in an indoor composter.
- >(Indoor composting was discussed on rec.gardens recently.)
- <..>
- >I read somewhere that tubifex worms can constipate fish, if you feed too
- >heavily. Does anyone have any experience feeding red worms to fish?
-
- I've had a worm culture going for awhile now (they're "red" worms
- from a bait shop...they might be composting worms: I'm not sure).
- Mostly they're for a tortoise, but they breed so darn fast I've
- been giving them to the fish as well. The fish aren't quite as
- enthusiastic about them as they are about some live food (which is
- to say they get several inches below the surface before getting
- eaten, instead of being grabbed at the surface :-) ). In any
- case, I haven't noticed any deleterious effects. But then, I
- only feed them once a week or so. Unless you come up with something
- clever (which I'd be interested in hearing about) you have to pick
- out the worms one at a time by hand, so I'm not likely to feed
- them to the fish every day.
-
- Just as a side note, I got my worm info here on the net, and
- thanks to all who contributed. The culture is a few months old
- now and I have more baby worms then I know what to do with :-).
- If I had the space I'd be composting as well...
-
-
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-
- James Harold "There is always an easy solution to
- harold@wam.umd.edu every human problem -- neat, plausible,
- and wrong." -- H. L. Mencken
-