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RE: [GSAS-Member] Garden worms
The worms in the wild are probably already purged and/or drowned.
Susan
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[mailto:gsas-member-bounces@thekrib.com] On Behalf Of matt kaufman
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 4:12 PM
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Subject: RE: [GSAS-Member] Garden worms
why bother? Do you think something purges the worms that the fish eat in the
wild? I've always thought of it as a free source of minerals for the fish.
Just rinse the dirt off and feed
>From: "Susan Welenofsky" <welenofsky@comcast.net>
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>Subject: RE: [GSAS-Member] Garden worms
>Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 10:48:02 -0800
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>On color-free (Black and White) moist newspaper or paper towels.
>
>Susan
>
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>[mailto:gsas-member-bounces@thekrib.com] On Behalf Of Paul M Wallace
>Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 10:16 AM
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>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
> >
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