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Mindemae
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LIVE WORMS IN FROZEN FOOD?
« on: March 29, 2010, 03:01:53 PM »
Hi All,
Today I cleaned my 55 gallon aquarium.  I take a small 5 gallon bucket and dip some water out to clean my filters.
I threw the water out onto my lawn and then when I went to rinse the bucket out I saw these tiny red worms squirming about in the bit of water I had started to rinse the bucket out with.  About 5 red teeny tiny worms in all.  I have never noticed worms before and was shocked to say the least since I do not feed any live foods.  Could these worms survive from the omnivore frozen cubes I feed?  That's the only place I could think of that they might have came from.  Anyone have this happen before?  I think they must have been sucked up by the filter before the fsh ate them or maybe eggs and the filter was a great incubator for them???
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Katarine
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Re: LIVE WORMS IN FROZEN FOOD?
« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2010, 03:17:03 PM »
Maybe. That seems kind of unlikey though.. I mean arent the cubes frozen? :S Thats an interesting phenonmenon
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Re: LIVE WORMS IN FROZEN FOOD?
« Reply #2 on: March 29, 2010, 05:42:28 PM »
Well, thinking of all other microorganisms which live and survive in ice.... everything is possible with "mother nature" even things we never heard of or never seen before....
Who knows?Huh,  Cry

I keep feeding my fish with granules, flakes, peas Smiley
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Re: LIVE WORMS IN FROZEN FOOD?
« Reply #3 on: March 29, 2010, 05:45:43 PM »
Mindemae, how are your fish?
hope they are ok, but I suggest you watch them very closely, maybe give them another salt water as a treatment in between?
Also you could ask your local pet shop.

Did you keep those worms in a jar to show them?
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« Reply #4 on: March 29, 2010, 10:34:34 PM »
Hanna,
Heck I just threw them back in the tank for the fish to eat.  I'm pretty sure they came from the frozen food.
It looks like a green frozen block of ice but contains spinach as well as different kinds of worms and larvae that fish eat live.  I guess I thought frozen meant dead!  Guess I was wrong! Smiley
I add salt to every water change I do!  All my fish are lively and alert with no health issues. Wink
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Katarine
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Re: LIVE WORMS IN FROZEN FOOD?
« Reply #5 on: March 29, 2010, 10:39:40 PM »
yay! :3
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Hanna
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« Reply #6 on: March 29, 2010, 10:57:22 PM »
 Cheesy, Yeeehhh, so glad to hear, lol, read this! Cheesy
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marina
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« Reply #7 on: March 30, 2010, 09:21:44 AM »
w0w thats an amazing experience...Well by the way is methyline blue harmful to my live plants in my tank...tnx guys.....
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Re: LIVE WORMS IN FROZEN FOOD?
« Reply #8 on: April 06, 2010, 07:10:05 AM »
I am not sure, I haven't heard that it is.
But if you need to treat your fishies, I think they are priority.
I'd follow the instructions on the bottle.
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Re: LIVE WORMS IN FROZEN FOOD?
« Reply #9 on: April 06, 2010, 03:03:28 PM »
marina: Methylene Blue doesn't harm the plants but it DOES have harmful effects on the filter bacteria, so if you're gonna treat your fish with this, rather move them to a separate hospital tank. (It can also stain ornaments and the silicone in the tank.)
This is usually used for fungus, so... do your fish have fungus? Or just asking?
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marina
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« Reply #10 on: April 07, 2010, 01:55:19 AM »
just asking guys....thanks for infos......
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« Reply #11 on: April 07, 2010, 06:08:19 AM »
No prob! Cheesy
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