Was: [GSAS-Member] Free fish food, or trade, Now earthworms.

[DonaldR <gsmd_bari@yahoo.com>]

Steev,
My Oranda did really well until I fed her earthworms.  She then started
to swim eratically and upside down and eventually died.  I was actually
one person that killed a goldfish.  Luckily Heather had departed by
then, so I didn't have to admit that to the Goldfish Queen;-)
-Don

--- steev ward <steevward@mac.com> 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
> 
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