It was my first time to buy those Tubifex cube thingeys. I didnt know they only float, even when soaked for a long time. Is there any way to sink them? Maybe an aquarium accesory that I dont know about? Thanks.

well, they never sink. Just sqeeze them under water so they won't float as much. Don't you worry. Never had fishie related problems with them.

If you wet them under the aquarium water, then press them on to the glass wall of the tank, they stick! The fish love to nibble them off of the glass and soon get to know what you are doing and will all gather around waiting.

Tropical fish love these, but I just break a small chunk off of the cube for them, and stick it on the glass the same way.

I throw them in my gel food - and then they sink!

I like the glass sticking idea!!!! :thumbup

I also stick them on the glass, my goldies really like them!!

mine just float around but im gonna try the glass sticking method

Gaah, I just tried the sticky to glassy method, and my fat pig of a common swam up and yanked the entire cube straight off the glass and swallowed it!

Then he couldn't open his mouth again, and I had to net him and get him to spit it all out (brought him to the surface and made him gasp once or twice). He's now sitting in the corner with a piece of lettuce, looking sulky. Wretched fish!

I don't think that a big common would have trouble with a cube of tubifex. He probably would have spit some of it out in a bit

My Rocky eats the entire cube in one gulp and asks for more!!!! Piggy. Sticking to the glass meant that he ate 3 cubes and no one else got any.

Sticking the cube to the glass certainly worked out well for Rocky

This is one of the foods I love to hand feed. I just hold the cube under the water, everyone comes and grabs a bite.

Robin

Thanks lots, guys. Sorry though for posting this in the wrong place. I didnt know there was a Food forum.

When I was a kid, I remember a neighbor put some worms (huge live ones) in a plastic thingey that had a suction cup. I dont know what that was (the worm and the thingey).