[quote=”parosphr” post=2114] At any rate if you cannot catch your glassworms yourself from the next fish-free pool (what is best) you should keep them for quite a time in a big container with much new water; best is to net them and give them without old polluted water into it.[/quote]
Hello, Peter,
yes, that is completely right: I would recommend this for every kind of life food bought from the trade.
In winter I also have to buy the glass worms – and I pour them as soon as possible after buying out of their plastic bags, into a sieve, which I then hang into a pot with clear, fresh water. You can say – I wash them first, to rinse off every trace of the fluid in which they are sold. After that I wash the whole lot of larvae out of the sieve into – again – new clear, fresh water, put it all in a glass and store it in the fridge. You can feed the glass worms now and then with freshly hatched artemia.
Before feeding them to my fish I again pour them into a sieve and rinse them. I put nothing of the water I store them in into my tanks (although this is fresh water, which I fill up regularly).
I do this washing with every kind of life food I have to buy – in Artemia it is additionally necessary because of the salt water they are sold in.
Until now I have made no bad experiences with feeding these glass worms to all of my fish – not only paros. But I am always afraid – I heard about this desaster you spoke about, too.