Re: [Killietalk] Re: proper feeding (was: Re:Name the Fish Ailment)

[Tyrone Genade <tgenade at gmail_com>]

Hello again

On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 10:18:28 -0500, Kenneth Combs <kcombs at mergerx_net> wrote:

> before, I did not
> have any "issues" till I started feeding white worms raised in "magic
> worm bedding"...correlation?...I wonder...never dawned on me till
> recently where all this "sand" was coming from in my bare bottom
> tanks...("wild" earthworms?), I'm wondering if the ingested "sand" from
> those wild worms helped digestion, hmmm...or alternatively; perhaps the
> "high fat" white worm diet plus the "artificial" (soiless) bedding was
> "detrimental" (or less desirable) I'm betting wild fish get a lot of
> this "incidental" roughage in their daily adventures...

The major problem with white worms is their high fat content. For this
reason they should not be fed daily. The fat has been known to cause
bowl obstructions (sorry Barry, can't recall the source) but the main
problem is with prolonged usage the unmetabolizable fats deposit
around the vital organs and cause serious problems (e.g. infertility).
This can be kind of got around by gut loading the worms with HUFA
(highly unstaturated fats, from for instance crushed peanuts and
peanut butter) or spirulina. The worms eat either without problems
(trust me).

The sand can almost certainly act as roughage.

tt
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