Australian Blood Worms

[GotCrabs]

Could someone suggest somewhere I can get some Blood Worms too, might try them on my Shrimp and Bristlenose for something different, thoughts?

[northboy]

Frozen blocks any where, live they are all over the place you will have to get some and culture them, big job to produce numbers and messy to

 

Bob

[GotCrabs]

Yeah I meant anywhere online,sorry.

[ineke]

Try australian blackworm farm- they have a good website and sell live worms but it's expensive as they only sell in large quantity -200g I believe and thats around $60 plus postage- however the shrimp have difficulty catching live worms- they do get the occassional one and love them but generally frozen or as I've found out recently the freeze dried worms go down a treat- I have a few cull shrimp in my Betta tank and they love it when any of the dried worms finally reach the bottom  they soften up nicely once in the water-the shrimp even come up to where the worms are stuck on the glass for the fish- I know several of our sponsors sell the dried black worms.

[GotCrabs]

Cheers Ineke, I'll have a suss on the sponsors' sites.

[GotCrabs]

Think I'll give Australian Black Worms from The Tech Den a crack, cheers Ineke.

[northboy]

Black worms and blood worms are way different WAY, the Blood worm is a mozzie type lava and black worms are a nematode

 

 

Bob

[ineke]

I've always used the frozen blood worms for my shrimp but the only live worms I can get for my fish are black worms so I have live and freeze dried black worms for the fish and frozen blood worms for the shrimp but the shrimp like both. I don't know what nutritional differences there are between the two but as I can get both I do.

[northboy]

They are both fine so long as they are not the only food.

 

Growing conditions are way different for both to be raised in. Blood worm Mozzies don't bight humans and are on the bottom of most out door ponds in the tropics and sub tropics, don't know about further south?? they make a little mud shelter on the bottom of ponds and drag it along as they feed.

 

Bob