Bloodworms

Happy Monday to ya'all,
I keep on reading articles on the net about feeding Bloodworms and here is the question.
Do I, or should I, rinse the frozen worms before adding them into my tank.
From what I have read it seems like a VERY good idea to defrost the worms in a small container of tank water, then rinse them using a fine net and then feed them to the fish....
People say that it gets rid of a lot of the Phosphates that are in the 'juice' that comes with the frozen worms.
I do know that when anything fresh is frozen the cells burst when defrosted and lots of the nutritional fluids contained in the cell is then leached out.
I also notice that when the frozen block is placed into my fish tank the 'juice' contained in the block does float out into the water and probably fouls the water withtout feeding the fish - I am sure that the 'juice' has NO feeding value for the fish.
The real question is = how many folks in here rinse their Bloodworms before feeding them and it is worth doing or not and does it REALLY matter at the end of the day.
Thank you

 

Thanks for the reply!

 

I have never rinsed my bloodworm....but sure it cant be a bad thing

 

I don't use water, I just use plain tank water, I don't want to cook them

 

well i was just gonna use cold tap water actually

 

I use tank water and a tot glass to defrost it before feeding. I dont rinse either

 

I just put the frozen block in the tank straight away
why even defrost in a cup?
The fish love taking it apart and i love watching them doing it.

 

Quoted from @Dirk on a swimbladder thread a while ago.

 

i read and understand what it says. but after 24years of keeping fish and feeding them frozen blocks i have not had this problem.
Maby i'm just one of the lucky ones.

 

daaaam never thought of that frozen part.... but otherwise its so fun watching them tear the bloodworms up

 

i soak the blood worms in tank water before feeding them.

 

I do the same

 

guilty here too...

having said that, i do not often feed bloodworm, its a rare treat for my fish.

 

If I heard right they havn't got much of a nutritional value aswell, I only feed blood worm for a treat once or twice a week

 

ye, i'm sure there's some protein value if nothing else...

 

http://www.theaquariumwiki.com/Bloodworm

See this link guys, actually tought me something as well.

 

This is from a thread a while ago, when one of my angels died of bacterial septicemia.
So ya I'm also sticking to it as an occasional food source.

I've also fed my fish tubifex in frozen blocks, and the ice cube melts before the've had a chance to take the block of worms apart.

 

pjacid,

I hope you realize how much damage your statement does. Just because you have not had problems does not mean that this is bad for your fishes and does not cause major problems. What sort of fishes have you fed in this way and which amounts of bw? I regularly get questions about just this and if you scan the forum you will see repeated problems resulting from just this.

I also want to add that bloodworms that have been thawed and that release a lot of colour into the water, are actually damaged and are poor quality. This is an indication that they have been thawed and have been refrozen and this just means that their nutritional value has been lowered. Unfortunately a lot of the bw sold in SA is low quality, has been imported from Malaysia or Singapore and has been fed on pig manure and is actually not good for feeding fishes at all, this type of bw is loaded with harmful bacteria. Also all frozen food that has been blister packed has been rethawed to repack it in this way and will leak out red colour in this way.

But I do see that my preachings have not fallen on deaf ears and that many persons have been following my advice, so thanks guys.

Kind regards,

Dirk

 

How long does a small piece of anything actually stay frozen or cold for that matter ? Have anyone seen how fas a smaal piece of ice melts in tank temp water ? It is like intantly, I doubt that a piece of food will still even be remotely cold by the time it reaches the stomach of a fish, seriously ? Bigggest advatage to defrosting/rinsing frozen food is to get rid of extra nutrients like po4 etc etc.