On color-free (Black and White) moist newspaper or paper towels. Susan -----Original Message----- From: gsas-member-bounces@thekrib.com [mailto:gsas-member-bounces@thekrib.com] On Behalf Of Paul M Wallace Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 10:16 AM To: Greater Seattle Aquarium Society member chat Subject: Re: [GSAS-Member] Garden worms I remember reading a long time ago that collected worms can be placed on something (moist paper towel?) for a few hours to 'void' so that they are crud free. With other life food (daphina?) you can also gut load. This would be a useful way of medicating internal problems. -Paul On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, steev ward wrote: > John- > We do need to consider if the worms have something harmful on them or > inside them. I collect worms from under the doormat outside my back door, > but I don't use the ones I find out front where cars park. Sometimes too a > worm will have a gut full of decaying crud that can cause a bacterial bloom > in the intestine of the fish. > Nutritionally we are often warned that worms are high in saturated > fats, and that this can be harmful to fish if they eat worms too often. > Occassionally a fish can get constipated by over-indulging in worms; > this happens in Discus from time to time and can be quite serious. > But all in all they make a good food for fish, and I don't know of > any fish parasites that can be transferred by earthworms; not in this > region anyway. > > Steev > > John Ruhland wrote: > Regarding earthworms, do we need to worry about any > >> diseases if we feed worms from our yard to our fish? >> John > > _______________________________________________ > GSAS-Member mailing list > GSAS-Member@thekrib.com > http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/gsas-member > _______________________________________________ GSAS-Member mailing list GSAS-Member@thekrib.com http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/gsas-member _______________________________________________ GSAS-Member mailing list GSAS-Member@thekrib.com http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/gsas-member