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Earthworms??? Can we successfully feed our dwarf's Earthworms?

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DarleneaLive	Earthworms??? Can we successfully feed our dwarf's Earthworms?	Lead	[-]
Posts: 18 (04/27/08 20:36:02) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Report Post	Tags : None My little dwarf would not eat anything for the longest time. A went to the pet store to try to get some live bate small enough for him, "no luck, nothing live"! so I kept on trying to feed my little buddy pellets with no luck. To be honest with you I gave up on him/her. Tonight I decided I was either gonna do him no good or save his/her life. I went outside and fond a little ground worm and cut the tail off. I cant even believe it my little buddy ate it!!! He attacked it, it was amazing! So Is this bad?
Mac		#1	[-]
Posts: 1361 (04/28/08 01:57:08) Pipid PhD Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Report Post	Earthworms from outside (and bait shops) can ingest pesticides and other outdoor hazards, which will be passed to your frog. Only worms that you could raise yourself in a clean media farm could be used as good food. Have you tried frozen and thawed bloodworms ? Live blackworms are good also. ~Mac
capturedbyrobots		#2	[-]
Posts: 2647 (04/28/08 09:43:01) Administrator The Heavy Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Report Post	Live blackworms are an excellent food if you can find them. So you have no fish stores near you which have live food? What city are you in? But, If he's not eating at all, Feed something.. I suggest you try the frozen bloodworms (not freeze dried) like Mac suggested. I would try and start a live blackworm preferably, or if you must...an earth worm colony, and just feed him the smallest ones (cut up a bit...)
Kupcake96		#3	[-]
Posts: 266 (04/28/08 09:44:43) Doesn't mind bare bottoms! Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Report Post	I was actually considering this as another way to make my frogs meals more diverse. I was going to ask if they were just too big.
DarleneaLive		#4	[-]
Posts: 19 (04/28/08 19:20:03) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Report Post	The problem is-If it dose not wiggle he/she will pay no attention to it! I have tried dried, frozen and pellet food with no success. I have went to our local pet stores in Spokane Washington, none of them that i have found sells small live food. So that is why i have resorted to searching for the smallest live worms and larva that i can find in my yard. "I felt bad for the little guy," he just kept on living with out eating! I know it sounds bad but i had to do something. Question- is it expensive to buy and raise your own worms? Thank you for your replies, every little bit of information is promptly soaked into my sponge to to broaden my knowledge
capturedbyrobots		#5	[-]
Posts: 2648 (04/29/08 09:21:12) Administrator The Heavy Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Report Post	The biggest thing about earthworms is their size. My ADFs can choke on even big blackworms (2mm diameter and up) Then their swallow reflex gets all messed up, and it might take a week for them to be able to eat again. I've heard that it can be difficult to raise your own colony of blackworms, but I have never tried. It's so much easier for me to buy them at my local store... Plus I get to visit the fishies every 2 weeks. Check this link on LBWs and there is a link in there on how to grow them. Blackworms Oh, you always can just cut the tips off the young earthworms and they will wiggle even after being cut off the main worm. If you must feed EW, just culture them yourself, it's really easy from what I'm told. Last Edited By: capturedbyrobots 04/29/08 09:23:32. Edited 1 times.

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