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Posted 09 March 2011 - 10:41 AM

When I feed my fish worms I first roll the worm in Aqueon Tropical Flakes (something like that) to get more nutrients and variety. If I didn't do that, my fish wouldn't get any greens! Does anyone else have any ideas for either making the worm more nutritional or the actual feeding of the worm(EX. tube feeding)?

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Posted 09 March 2011 - 11:46 AM

When I feed my fish worms I first roll the worm in Aqueon Tropical Flakes (something like that) to get more nutrients and variety. If I didn't do that, my fish wouldn't get any greens! Does anyone else have any ideas for either making the worm more nutritional or the actual feeding of the worm(EX. tube feeding)?


I use Magic Worm Food I picked up from Thiesen's. It came with the worm ranch I bought. Ingredients are: Grain products, plant protein products, animal protein products, grain byproducts, calcium carbonate, dicalcium carbonate. I have been feeding this to my worms and definitley have seen an increase in my worm population. I might try using spirulina powder or flakes (but I would moisten the flakes) and place it on top of their bedding to see if the worms will eat them. If not remove any that gets moldy. I go by "You are what you eat" when feeding live foods to my fish. The healthier the food the healthier the fish.

Hope this helps,
Ken

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Posted 09 March 2011 - 01:30 PM

I use Magic Worm Food I picked up from Thiesen's. It came with the worm ranch I bought. Ingredients are: Grain products, plant protein products, animal protein products, grain byproducts, calcium carbonate, dicalcium carbonate. I have been feeding this to my worms and definitley have seen an increase in my worm population. I might try using spirulina powder or flakes (but I would moisten the flakes) and place it on top of their bedding to see if the worms will eat them. If not remove any that gets moldy. I go by "You are what you eat" when feeding live foods to my fish. The healthier the food the healthier the fish.

Hope this helps,
Ken

Thanks! Once I set up my worm bed again I'll definatly use this!

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Posted 10 March 2011 - 10:09 AM

I feed my all my worms (white, grindal and earthworms) Multigrain baby cereal. It's vitamin enriched.

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Posted 10 March 2011 - 12:38 PM

When I had worms in the past I fed them either chicken crumbles (grow feed, not laying feed), or kitten food. Both worked really well. The product that Yeahson uses sounds a lot like chicken feed.




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