Re: Is this a safe food?

[Mark Dierker <c598534@showme.missouri.edu>]

I raise red wigglers also, and If I had to guess, I would say what you are
seeing are baby red wigglers.  I often throw egg yolks in my box and will
get clumps of those white guys around the egg yolk.  I feed them often and
the fish love them.  When the worms start climbing up to the top of the box
-I think- it is indicative of an acid pH.  The worms dont like this.  If
your water is basciic (like mine) you might really water the box to bring
the pH back up.  This has always worked for me when I start seeing the guys
climbing out of the box, or up onto the lid.
	To bring it back on topic, I often feed these white guys and their
slightly larger breatheren to my apistos, to no ill effect.  In fact they
seem to condition the fish nicely.
-Mark Dierker
Columbia, Missouri.


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