About Mealworms... Options

[CP]

I didn't kill the worms before feeding them against the advice of someone who suggested the legs/claws could punture goldfish's digestive track.  Nah... the ranchus has no problem eating the live worms; the worms are dead the moment my ranchus munch on them.

What is mealworms?I thot you are refering to live tubifex but was stumped by 'legs/claws'

[HappyBuddha]

I don't have any pics... but mealworms is known in hokkien "loh di tung" (bread worms.) When you go to LFS that sells live feed, you'll recognize tubifex and bloodworms for sure. So the other type of worms in faded yellowish white colour is mealworms, and they are usually in a container with old bread crumbs plus saw dust like poos on the floor. $1 get you a small chinese tea cup worth. The interesting thing about them is you can keep them alive for months so long as you leave some food for them, ie, breads. There's no need to supply them drinking water. So I was hoping mealworms can be a substitude for tubifex due to their long "shelf" life.

For the record and in case it's on someone's mind, my 5 inches ranchu can take in 3-4 mealworms on one mouthfull. The one chinese tea cup worth lasted 3-4 days for 2 ranchus at best.... so I wasn't underfeeding my fishes resulting in their protein deficiency hor.

[CP]

Ohh...Mealworms I dont know,loh ti dang I do.
People buy to feed arowana.Must have burnt a hole in your pocket.

[goldrush]

hello bros

For detailed culture and analysis of mealworm kindly refer to the thread attached.
Beware that mealworm are not worms forever but are the larvae of a kind of beetles,details and pictures are very well documented in
the thread:

http://www.dbs.nus.edu.sg/research/fish/livefood/mealwm.html

hope that everyone is enlighten

Goldrush

[goldrush]

To further add

Look at the nutitional analysis of the pupae of mealworms.It comprises of 48.31% of protein ,40.46% of FAT???????? And 2.92% ash and 8.31% NFE(In animal nutrition analysis, NITROGEN-FREE EXTRACT (NFE):
NFE supposedly represents the soluble carbohydrate of the feed, such as starch and sugar. Crude fiber represents insoluble carbohydrate.
Mealworms are highly nutritious but also highly fattening so given that the above analysis holds true,your godlfish may encounter health problems if it fed on an exclusive meal of mealworms for prolong periods.So pls spare a thought for their well being.Thxs


Regards
goldrush

[supertop]

Live tubiflex worm & live blood worm are good, but they also come with a wonderful variety of parasites/bacteria

as for market prawn, u think ARO AH?!

Will dried blood worm help in cutting down the parasites that free with the worms?

[CyberET]

Will dried blood worm help in cutting down the parasites that free with the worms? 

by right dried processed blood worm should have no parasites

[YLD]

how much, how often do u feed mp? solely on mp? or varied diet? if so, percentage of mixture? any other parameters/conditions/enviroment changed ever since u started feeding mp? hmmm...

for this one mth i feed mp in the morning and nite. varied diet 2-3 time of mp a day and 3 times of hikari lionhead pellet. As i mentioned, one mth before i introduce mp, diet is mainly lionhead pellets but the growth is really not significant at all.

all parameters are constant from day one.

This post has been edited by YLD: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 10:58 am

[CyberET]

HmMmMM... let me go ponder about it
thanks

[YLD]

HmMmMM... let me go ponder about it
thanks

Pls ask any questions if you have any. Perhaps my claim is not 100%.

Thanks in advance!!!

[cktan]

Pls ask any questions if you have any. Perhaps my claim is not 100%.

Thanks in advance!!!

U r right. Chinese goldfish book did mention some feeds to improve goldfish color. One of them is using MP. Whether that works, no comments, havent try that out.

[The Matrix]

U r right. Chinese goldfish book did mention some feeds to improve goldfish color. One of them is using MP. Whether that works, no comments, havent try that out.

may i know which book ?

[The Matrix]

Pls ask any questions if you have any. Perhaps my claim is not 100%.

Thanks in advance!!!

do you keep record of your fish with photos to show us the effect of using market prawn ?

are you still using right now ? is there a possibility of you showing the photo of your present fish after the prolong period of exposing to market prawn diet ?

I have a feeling you are doing a great experiment of alternative food for many hobbyists.

[cktan]

may i know which book ?

Yr chinese powderful? Can help to translate that book or not? I can lend it to u. There are some chapters which are very interesting, like

1) How to make a fish grow faster,
2) How to make a fish color more vibrant
3) How to make a fish live a longer life etc...

But dunno whether those are loads of bullshit.

[The Matrix]

Yr chinese powderful? Can help to translate that book or not? I can lend it to u. There are some chapters which are very interesting, like

1) How to make a fish grow faster,
2) How to make a fish color more vibrant
3) How to make a fish live a longer life etc...

But dunno whether those are loads of bullshit.

just tell me which book lah !