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Chopping black worms.
Its kinda like chopping green onions. Just put a blob on a cutting
board and take a sharp chopping knife and chop, chop, chop. I have found that
most of the trouble with tubifex of blackworms comes from feeding whole
unwashed worms. I flood mine twice a day in ice cold dechlorinated water and
allow all dead or half dead worms to run down the drain. I feed the worms
chopped to fish as large as Gularis, occidentalis and even discus. I feed
them as a conditioning food for breeders and never as a growth food for fry
or sub-adults or as a standard diet. I do feed beef heart as a growth food
but I am very careful with the amount as too much makes for fat fish with
poor color. I try never to give so much beef heart as to make their bellies
distended. Just enough to fill them up while still staying stream lined. I
will feed chopped blackworms or beef heart to the point of fat bellies when
conditioning females. I condition females in separate tanks from the males so
I do not have to feed the males as heavily. Before I chopped tubifex or
blackworms,and when I used them as a daily diet, the whole ones seemed to
cause a higher rate of dropsy and a fattening of the fish.
Robert E.
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