Yes, we know of two serious accidents with glassworms from the trade. One of our best Paro breeders in Germany lost nearly whole of his valuable stock – self caught pairs with a definite locality – by feeding them such food. Normally, he would have never done so without “washing” them before, but there was a breakdown of his self grown food cultures (it sometimes happens even to experts) and so he fed them at once. Next day nearly all of his fish were dead.
We have seen this in another case again.
Be well aware of this danger; the trade treats the small containers full of living and half-dead glassworms by adding several medicaments. The same holds for red mosquito larvae or tubifex; no food at all for Paros.
I have never seen any Paro come to death by a mosquito larvae too big; they try to swallow them, but if it proves to be too big, they leave them again. They can eat very big food, it’s astonishing.
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