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Actually they could be spawns of the worms that were not eaten by your fishes? By thew way, you said you never fed your fishes and shrimps for 1/2 a year?? How do they survive? Anyway those worms are beneficial for your tank ecosystem.
hi all experts,
anyone knows how long do tubifex worms live in the tank?
I have not fed my fishes and shrimps for more than 1/2 year (had a bad experience of contaminated worms) but recently I found several batches of tubifex worms (at least they look like tubifex worms) wriggling at the surface of the base...
It's quite difficult to spot them so I am real surprise that they can survive that long!
Actually they could be spawns of the worms that were not eaten by your fishes? By thew way, you said you never fed your fishes and shrimps for 1/2 a year?? How do they survive? Anyway those worms are beneficial for your tank ecosystem.
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perhaps he's trying to say that he has not fed his fishes with tubiflex worms for half a year? hmmm... a big difference with just the absence of a couple of words...
-clint- ~apisto keepers unite!~
I agree with Jungle-mania, they are most likely offspring of the introduced worms. What kind of fish do you have? Any bottom feeders?
I have question on this topic too- can the worms hide down in the substrate from fish such as corydoras? If bottom-feeding fish cannot eat them, perhaps shrimp could capture them? Hmm...
Personally I would not want tublifex worms anywhere near my tank- too many suggestions of disease caused by them. Would rather feed the fish something different.
Anyway, that's my opinion.
Breeding golden snakeskin guppies
The tubifex worms do sometimes carry diseases but I think it is mainly due to the way they are cultured. I heard (though not confirmed) that they are fed mainly waste products from pig farms therefore will carry germs if they aren't "cleaned" properly.
Normally I just buy a pack of them and rinse them in a container a few times before leaving them aside for a day. I will repeat the rinse process if I find the water they are in is getting cloudy the next day. I do try to gut-load them with spirulina fish flakes and whatever I can find on hand. So far no big problems with this method yet.
Yours Truly, Avan
I went into the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life... to put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
~ Henry David Thoreau
thanks for all the replies...
yup, missed out some words... i mean i didn't feed my fishes and shrimps with tubifex worms for more than 1/2 year because the last time i fed the worms were likely to be contaminated as it caused mass death...
i have 30 red-eyed tetras, 2 bronze corydoras and hundreds of shrimps, but since my bottom is full of moss, i think only the shrimps can access to the worms... but i guess the shrimps are more interested in the algae wafers i throw in...
hehe! so much fun to watch them stuff their faces!glad we could help!
Breeding golden snakeskin guppies
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