Does anybody feed frozen tubifex worms? Is it even still available in the trade?
Frozen Tubifex worms
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Freeze dried but fish dont like it
yes, that stuff is not nice.
The frozen tubifex used to be fantastic to get small picky butterflies eating.
Just read that Tubifex is not as popular in the hobby any more due to lack of nutritional value. Some clame they carry nasty parasites. Blood worm is now the food of choice and it seems it is a much healthier option.
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Tubifex is more nutrional than bloodworm, it's also thinner and stay in a ball, whereas bloodworm is short and disperse in the water. Fish that feed off rocks like tubifex more. Tubifex got a bad reputation because it could harbor the bacteria that causes whirling disease, but clean tubifex cultures are now available since the 1980s, unfortunately the bad rep still continues.
that's cool. how do u feed it?
Great to hear as I have a CBB and want to use the freeze dried option as well. Where do you find them @dallasg?
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Ok cool!
i cut a quarter, soak in water and seachem vitality, then turn of return and pour into tank
@dallasg, what make do you feed?
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