Angelfish loving some blackworms

[Andy's Fish Den]

I shot a short video of my Leopoldi angelfish chowing down on some live blackworms and frozen bloodworms. Also making an appearance in the video are some Apistogramma baenschi, siamese algae eaters, ember and green neon tetras, red beckford pencilfish. 

Leopoldi angelfish enjoying worms - YouTube

[Fish Folk]

Best live food ever! Nice Angels, nice Apistos!

Whats your method for keeping black worms alive?? 

[Andy's Fish Den]

1 hour ago, Fish Folk said:

Whats your method for keeping black worms alive?? 

I keep them in the refrigerator, I dump them out in a fine mesh net everyday, let my cold water tap run a min or two so it gets cold, rinse the worms under a gentle trickle. Put fresh, clean, cold water back in container and cover loosely with lids and back into fridge. I use a shallow tupperware type container, and use a container that's large enough that the worms aren't all clumped together, can spread out. I have a well for my water so my water is not treated other than going through a sediment filter, and even in summer comes out of tap cold. 

I know @Danielgets blackworms regularly for his fish, we can see what he does as well. 

[Daniel]

6 hours ago, Andy's Fish Den said:

I know @Danielgets blackworms regularly for his fish, we can see what he does as well. 

I do what @Andy's Fish Den does. I keep them in the fridge and rinse them once a day. Alternately, I keep them in a 5 gallon bucket underneath a drippy cold faucet. Both seem to work equally as well.

[Brandy]

How would you do this if you were not on a well? Dechlorinate and refrigerate fresh water each day?

[Andy's Fish Den]

10 hours ago, Brandy said:

How would you do this if you were not on a well? Dechlorinate and refrigerate fresh water each day?

To be honest I don't know for sure if any chlorine will harm the worms or not. I have seen that people who live in the south whose tap water isn't cold especially in the summer will have a jug of water sitting in the fridge to use to rinse their worms. I imagine you could do something similar, but treating the water with Prime or whatever your dechlorinator of choice is. The key is making sure that the water is cold, I believe it puts them in a dormant state. 

[Daniel]

On 1/29/2021 at 6:19 AM, Andy's Fish Den said:

To be honest I don't know for sure if any chlorine will harm the worms or not. 

@Brandy I don't know. I think I had blackworms a couple of decades ago when I was on chlorinated water and I don't remember it hurting the blackworms. But the operative words there are 'I don't know' and 'I don't remember'.

[Daniel]

Here is my current blackworm setup. It is at the sink where I hatch baby brine shrimp.

I am almost out of blackworms. I am expecting another 3 lbs. on Tuesday.

[Andy's Fish Den]

@Daniel how long does 3 pounds of blackworms last you? I got a half pound when I go them and they lasted me a couple weeks, but I wasn't feeding them heavily, just as a treat mainly, and to a couple kinds of corydoras to try to entice them to spawn.

[Daniel]

5 minutes ago, Andy's Fish Den said:

@Daniel how long does 3 pounds of blackworms last you? I got a half pound when I go them and they lasted me a couple weeks, but I wasn't feeding them heavily, just as a treat mainly, and to a couple kinds of corydoras to try to entice them to spawn.

I feed a lot of blackworms so they end up lasting about 10 - 14 days. Discus are a bottomless pit, so I might cut the discus blackworms back a bit just to save on the expense and to get the blackworms to last a little longer.