Re: Is this a safe food?

[baddog@telusplanet.net]

I have been feeding these worms to my fish for years now  and they seem to be as
good as any.   I find that they are harder to collect than the red worms unless
they are on the moist top of the worm bin.   I have been informed by someone who
studies worms for a living that they are another type of composting worm which
almost always occur with red wrigglers.  They are related to microworms and feed
on microscopic animals (yeasts and molds).  I believe that there may be some
mention of them in the vermicomposting clasic book "Worms Eat My Garbage" I
believe by Mary Appledorf?  I lent out my copy so I do not have the specifics on
hand.
Worms for the apistos, water changes where the old water is used on the plants,
worm castings for the plants.  What could be better?

alex pastor wrote:

> I keep a worm composting box into which I put stale, dry, mouldy bread,
> veggies and chopped up corrugated cardboard boxes, egg shells, peat moss
> etc.  There are hundreds of African red wriggler worms in the box that my
> big cichlids love to eat.  Today, when I lifted the lid, I noticed what
> looked like microworm culture on the moist inside of the lid.  The worms are
> larger than micro-worms (about 3 to 8 mm long, white, and thin).  Does
> anyone know what these may be and if they are safe to feed to the fish?
> Gabriella Kadar.
>



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