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[Fleendar the Magnificent]

I dipped this bucket of water from the quarry a week ago and it's been sealed in my Florida room for said week. Nothing that I could see was in the water, but when I opened the bucket up, there were these dark casings in the bottom and tiny red and wiggly worms. Are these wild blood worm larvae or something else? I am thinking that they are and that I have hit a killer natural food source.

 

Thanks for any help with this.

 

Chris M.

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[MtFallsTodd]

I would say yes.

[Matt DeLaVega]

I agree. Chironomid larvae of some flavor. The trick is coming up with an efficient way to harvest a bunch.

[Fleendar the Magnificent]

Thank you. That is what I thought, but as Matt said, the trick to making it pay off is finding an efficient way to propagate them and then harvest them and continue the cycle. I do not have such facilities at my disposal....

 

Chris M.

[Matt DeLaVega]

Chris, search for wild black worm thread by Auban. He has found a way to efficiently harvest them. Very different creatures, but maybe something attracts enough wild blood worms to an area that you could easily collect a bunch. Are they attracted to a light after dark?

[Fleendar the Magnificent]

I'll look it up and see what I find. I did scoop them out and my fish eagerly snapped them up.