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I haven't quite figured out a species yet but for now I will just call them Naidid
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They don't really like the microscope light it throws off alot of heat. In this pic you can see the worms abandoning the pellet of food. As soon as I remove it from the microscope the return to the pellet.
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Let me know how it goes. It's not a food that rings my bell, though.
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I wish I had a better microscope I really can't take a decent pic through the eye piece.
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Let me know how it goes. It's not a food that rings my bell, though.
Why not?
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I don't really know. I have pleco fry and newborn Mystery Snails that might eat them, but they do well with what I'm giving them. But I no longer have Discus fry.
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I don't really know. I have pleco fry and newborn Mystery Snails that might eat them, but they do well with what I'm giving them. But I no longer have Discus fry.
Oh I see. For me they are perfect for alot of different fish fry... they are tiny. I havent found any nutritional analysis but these are in the same family as tubifex I would guess similar profile. And since cultured from my tanks I dont have to worry about heavymetals, parasites, toxic bacteria etc in tubifex and they are a fractiin of a size of tubifex and blackworms. Its a win win if culture well.
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To funny I’ve got tnese guys growing like crazy in my shrimp and hillstream loach tanks. I feed to fry and my community tank. Pulled these out of the shrimp tank yesterdayAttachment 138902. Was wondering if these would be good for discus fry?
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Lol..looks like mine.:) no reason why you could not feed them to your discus.
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Hey AL I am really curious on what the nutritional value would be on those.
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Not a new scope you need an eyepiece camera as long as your optics are good.. They sell on Amazon with a wide range in price.
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Haha, cool Al. Very industrious of you. Do you know how rabidly they multiply? I’ll better the sump in my 500gal Malawi tank is a veritable worm farm :eek: