Re: [Killietalk] Black Worm Culture

["Duros, Mary" <m-duros at uchicago_edu>]

Yep, feed them away if your killis will eat them.  I'm must confess that
I am shocked that your plecs don't eat them.  My bns relish live
blackworms...  Anyhow, my fry/grow out tank has a blackworm forest as
well.  I do water changes in that tank first and throw the worms that I
siphon up into my other tanks to give the fish a treat.  
Take care,
Mary.

-----Original Message-----
From: killietalk-bounces at aka_org [mailto:killietalk-bounces at aka_org] On
Behalf Of Pjeversman at aol_com
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 8:56 AM
To: killietalk at aka_org
Subject: Re: [Killietalk] Black Worm Culture

I had the same thing happen to me. I had a tank with a couple of cory's
that 
ignored the worms for a long time. The worms started to multiply and I  
started to feed them.  Then, apparently the cory's developed a taste for
the worms 
and ate them.  The container was a large sweater box on a system  with a

sump, and the water was constantly changed, so the worms did  fine.  I
don't have 
the extra tank space to devote to just worms,  or I would try to culture
them.
 
Phil
 
 
In a message dated 5/15/2008 12:02:40 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
rhodyfish at yahoo_com writes:

While I'm not too proud of this I have seem to start a  black worm
culture in 
my pleco tank. I had some extra worms(4 to 6 worms)  about 6 weeks ago
and 
thought I'd give the plecos a try. Well they didn't  touch them and it's
a tough 
tank for me to access so the worms stayed in  there. I noticed that they
were 
still moving abound after several days, then  it seemed like there were
more 
of them now the tank is loaded with them. Has  any one had a similar 
experience or breed them. Could I be mistaken and have  some parasites,
they're about 1 
1/4" to 2" long and sure seem like black worms  to me but this is a
first. 
I'm thinking of starting to feed them to some of my  killies but didn't
want to 
screw up.
Thanks in advance
Peter


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