yes I know the white worms are fat but the copperband was skinny and I am fattening it up with the white worms. When I got it the fish was quite pinched on the top of the body and the stomach was sunken. He was not as skinny as they get but on its way there in a matter of a week maybe days. He was eating 3 mysis per day, that's it. Now he's plump and fat around the belly and the fat on the top of the body is building up nicely. I will only cut down on the white worms once the fish is back to its full fat reserve.
I want to get him back to normal level of fat before I introduce it to my main tank.
The white worms are fat, 14% fat, but they are also great in protein, 70%. A great live food to bring weak fish to health. I also enrich those white worms with Selcon as I soak the bread in milk and selcon and the worms feed on this, so they are also rich in the right fatty acid and the vitamines contained in Selcon. BTW, PE mysis are almost as fat as the white worms with 9% fat and 70% protein.
however no food is good as the only source of food. I beleive the copperband also eat pods in my tank as I don't see as many amphipods as used to.
Does this place has a web site?
I used to have discus and that's why I have white worms, to bring into breeding condition the nice prized discus and it worked well. Same as it work wonder to fatten up a very skinny saltwater fish.
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Originally Posted by Veng68
Cut down on the white worms. They are very fatty. Many discus keepers only feed them sparingly because of this.
I know of one place that sells black worms locally......... but not sure how they would ship to Quebec.
Cheers,
Vic
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