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Live food for killies - worms


Live worms for feeding killifish

Worms have long been understood to be an integral part of the killifish - or most any -tropical fish's diet. Perhaps this is why so much aquarium books suggest "condition for breeding by feeding worms". It really does work, nothing else seems to work as well. Fortunately they're very easy to culture, clean and disease, alage and pest free.


MICRO worms

Perhaps one of the easiest and most foolproof foods to grow, microworms are, as the name implies, very small, and are used for feeding fry.


VINEGER eels

They aren't eels, of course, but an aquatic version of microworms. Again - very simple to grow.


GRINDAL worms

Rather small, barely an inch long grindals have a little less fat that white worms and are easy to culture. They like room temperaure (70 - 80).


White worms

WHITE worms

The next size up from Grindal worms they are also easy to culture. The secret is, they prefer it cool (50 - 65). Given soil, a cool environment and regular feeding, they are fairly prolific.


EARTH worms

also known as African red worms, commonly sold as bait, make an excellent food for larger killies. African nightcrawlers can also be grown but are really too large for anything but a small handfull of large gluttenous killies.





Copyright 2007 Richard J. Sexton.

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