can you give goldfish earthworms?

i do believe goldfish will eat earthworms (cut up)..
however if they are from your garden,
it is possible the worms could carry parasites.

i've never fed them myself...
i'm sure someone who has has experience will come along shortly.

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welcome to koko's by the way!!!

u could but u could risk introducing parasites into ur tank

btw!

lol tink we posted at the same time

Yes, they'll eat worms. A few years ago I had to feed live earth worms to my sick newt and I had some pieces leftover, so I droped them in the goldie tank. The fish loved them. But that was when I was more of a goldie novice, I don't know if I'd do the same again, for the reasons mentioned by Tinkokeshi.

I always worry what the soil could contain also ..like metals and pesticides ..earthworms will absorb all that nasty stuff

and welcome to koko's

Welcome to Koko's.

I am going to move your question over to "Goldfish Foods" forum - and if you follow it, you will find all kinds of suggestions and lists of good foods for goldfish. They truly do enjoy a very wide variety of food!

Earthworms are good food for goldfish - chopped up into bites. HOWEVER, as noted above, they are what they eat. If they are in questionable soil, you will be feeding questionable substances. To fix this problem, people who feed earthworms will commonly collect a number of them and keep them in a box of clean soil- for approximately 1 week. During that time, the soil that is "questionable" is expelled from the worm and only healthy soil passes through them. They become natually "cleaned".

Since there are plenty of other foods that are just as chok full of protien as earthworms, however, it is far easier to simply feed them.

I know of some freinds who collect mosquito larvae in buckets outside to feed their bettas and goldies and koi eat mosquito and bug larvae in ponds, so I am guessing you could feed that to them

Mosquito larvae are fine - except that I have this overwhelming HATE of mosquitos. There are not too many things on the face of the Earth that I will state that amount of adamant emotion towards - but mosquitos are one thing that deserve HATE. They serve NO purpose that is not fulfilled in a better, more benign way by something else in nature.

If you do decide to feed mosquito larvae, you need to check your bucket EVERYDAY without fail. EVERYDAY. If the larvae are getting "too old" - DESTROY them. Do not introduce more mosquitoes into the world. They cause death and pain to sooooo many - practically every species of creature on this planet is plagued by the problems brought by mosquitoes. If there is anything I would happily be part of - it would be to erradicate mosquitoes.

So - raise them if you must - but do NOT let them mature. For every bucketful that you forget and let mature into biting adults, you owe the world one mosquito net in a developing country.

JMO

aww poor lil mosquitos i think u hurt their feelings...lol jk but i love every animal and think that all living things r equal...even mosquitos....yeah I know im crazy lol i actually used to keep them as pets

lol but then again i do kinda agree with u.....last year i counted my mosquito bites and had well over 200 lol

As annoying as they are, those itchy welts that you get from a mosquito bite is not the worrisome thing. It is the deadly diseases that they carry - infecting humans, horses, dogs, cats...... hundreds of different species of those "equal" creatures that you so value. Many die a miserable death because of a mosquito bite.

Mosquitos are evil. I do not say that lightly - there are soooooo few things that I will say that about. (I would be hard pressed to think of another). Most things that are bad or annoying or whatever have some other purpose in life. Perhaps they feed another creatures exclusively, or allow something to pollenate or....whatever.... but they allow me to find some good in them, however little. But mosquitos serve NO purpose. There is NOTHING that they do that something else does not already do. The only thing they do is spread disease, misery, pain and death to nearly all other living creatures. They are worthy of nothing - only something to be hated and erradicated.

I have to say I agree 100% with daryl ..!!!!our bylaws here in my town ..since they are finding the westnile in our area any water left standing ..old tires ,pools .birdbaths buckets .etc you can be fined HUGE ..

yeah i know ur right but i cant help loving all creatures I cant kill anything alive so whenever a mosquito bites me I catch it and let it go lol..my friends always thought i was insane for protecting mosquitos, and spiders and such (even though i've got a terrible case of arachnaphobia lol)...

Mosquitos make good foods for many insects though... including for our fishies when they are still babies or larvaes.

I would be concerned that any pathogens carried by the parent mosquitoes would pass on to the larvae and create a problem to the fish after feeding.

I dont have the guts to cut up worms!!!!!
I dont know about the ones in your back yard though

You could buy the worms from a bait shop...they are the best way to go.

Hi

So I have two gold fish apple a pearl scale and orange a comet. Apple is about an 1.5 inches while Orange is 2 inches can I feed them stuff besides the tetra flakes (which eat but I am not to sure if they like) I was wondering if they are too small to eat greens and etc.

I would try feeding them some peas, you can crush them up alittle for them make sure there nice and soft

Another way to make earthworms safe is by dropping the earthworms in BOILING water for about a minute to make sure the parasites are dead. But, the earth worms would be dead too though...