How Do You Feed Earthworms To Fish?

Hello fellow fish enthusiasts.
I have found a ton of huge earthworms in my yard and I was thinking of feeding them to my fish. I do not use any pesticides or fertilizer. Is there a special way to clean them like live black Worms? Should I throw it into my gel food mix? Should I just chop them into tiny cubes for my fish? What do you think?

Gel food recipe:
1 part shrimp
1 part worms
1 part veggies(peas, carrots, green beans, and lettuce)
1 clove of garlic
1 packet gelatin

These are the worms.

 

drop one in the tank and see what happens...I'm sure your fish will shred it

 

So no special cleaning time like soaking in water?

GAAAAAAH! I thought that some were dead and when I tried to pick them up the started squirming! Worms are a big no-no for me.

TETRAS ARE GOING WILD! The discus are pecking at it precautiosly.

Now some cories are in on the worm! Poor worm...

 

@.@ I wouldnt even be able to touch the worms I hate how they feel and wiggle. although I'm glad the fish like them haha, it would probably be a good treat every once in awhile

 

I keep thinking I need to give my fish earthworms sometimes, but I just don't have the stomach/heart to drop a live one in the tank and watch it get torn apart :-/ And I'm too squeamish to chop it... can't win.

 

I keep thinking I need to give my fish earthworms sometimes, but I just don't have the stomach/heart to drop a live one in the tank and watch it get torn apart :-/ And I'm too squeamish to chop it... can't win.

lol yeah I would feel bad too because you are feeding something that's alive to fish, I will just stick with frozen bloodworms for now XD

 

I keep thinking I need to give my fish earthworms sometimes, but I just don't have the stomach/heart to drop a live one in the tank and watch it get torn apart :-/ And I'm too squeamish to chop it... can't win.

I've done both (born and raised rural, so it doesn't really bother me). It you don't want to watch it get shredded, my JD and Blood Parrots swallow them whole.

 

It's not so much the feeding-live-food part, it's the slow death that bothers me. I should probably just do it and not watch them eat...

 

I feed them wingless fruit flies. It's really fun to watch them attack at the surface!

 

CAREFUL, I've done that before. Inevitably one (or a piece of one ) will "get away" and hide under something or in the substrate and die. All of a sudden you have an ammonia problem. Then comes the fun part. Your have to tear your aquascape up to remove the dead pieces. No fun. I stopped trying to feed live earthworms. The fish like them but it was just too much work.

 

How big are worms you typically feed? I have wondered about feeding some to my fish, typically after it rains here there are a ton of them that end up on the drive and ultimately die. My biggest concern is how do the fish handle eating it? I have a single angel, some apisto, cories and tetras in my tank and am not sure exactly how they would eat a worm (that I don't much feel like dicing up!!)

 

It might be a good idea to but load them first, since now all you are feeding the fish is the worm and a whole lot of dirt.

 

I tried dropping them in and my discus and tetras couldn't eat it. Now they are blended in my fish food.