Re: apisto with intestinal worms

[mickey3@intergate.ca]

I refuse to feed my fish tubifex worms ...frozen or fresh...these things
are grown in sewage, and anything that grows in feces in my opinion, could
probably withstand a nuclear war let alone a good freezing.

At 09:23 AM 4/17/00 -0600, you wrote:
>I once found tubifex worms growing in one of my tanks. I don't know how
they got
>there because I had never fed live tubifex, although I had used frozen
worms. I
>found it hard to believe, but my only explanation was that either the fish
had
>carried in eggs or that the frozen tubifex had some viable worms or eggs.
Just to
>be on the safe side I've never used frozen tubifex again. I prefer to stay
with
>live/frozen brine shrimp and earthworms because they do not come from the
same
>freshwater environment as my fish. I doubt very many diseases can be
transmitted
>between organisms inhabiting different environments.
>
>Mike Wise
>
>mickey3@intergate.ca wrote:
>
>> Frozen ones are OK!!!...I've never had an infestation of anything from
>> frozen anything, nor have any of the other people in my area I've talked
>> to.At 10:18 AM 4/15/00 -0600, you wrote:
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