Thanks for sharing bro. You're always putting out great info. I was dying when you took off your glasses to read the bloodworm label. The room is looking awesome
I also defrost them in tank water quite frequently as it allows me to get more worms distributed around the tank evenly for bottom feeders and those that aren’t as aggressive as the ones attacking the floating frozen cubes.
I could be wrong but I’ve found these frozen foods, from a respectable source, are awesome and help with getting the breeding so to speak begin. Or if you have a fry tank to feed. Although I’m a believer in making fresh hatch brine shrimp for my fry. A person just has to be careful on the source who they buy from otherwise you can have other problems. It’s not an everyday feeding which I totally agree with. I wouldn’t say it’s a treat as much as I would say it’s a periodically feeding to help breeding as well as give the fish something different than flakes or pellets. You mentioned in another TH-cam about switching up foods. I so agree. This is one way of switching up foods. Again Michael,excellent information.
I buy frozen blood worms and brine shrimp.. San Francisco Bay (Sally's) and Hikari brands. Just got 16 pounds...8 of each! Never had an issue with the products. I thaw them unless I'm in a hurry...then I toss in a chunk and run! By the way ...I feed them to all sorts of fish without issue. My plecos LOVE BLOOD WORMS! Never had a problem with any plecos eating them, though I see guys on TH-cam say not to feed them to L134 for example. My 134s adore them! Great video. All good and accurate info in my opinion.
Great video. Could you talk about using salt for stress & parasites, water changes after salt & how much to use. So much info pro & con. Thank you for your time
I use needless syringe to feed frozen food. I feed frozen food once a week and rotating daphnia, cyclops,brine shrimp. Fry tank gets baby brine shrimp every morning though.
@@MichaelsFishRoom hi. Thank you for your reply, but my son came around and fed the ( peeled shrimp) to the fish but the fish didn’t like the shrimp after all. 👍
My fish get frozen mysis shrimp, frozen brine, frozen cyclops, frozen baby brine, frozen daphnia, and frozen blood worms. Not all at the same time. They also get Xtreme Krill & Spirillina and Bug Bites and sometimes Vibra Bites. On occasion I'll get a wild hair and make repashy. I tried to feed a variety. Taco is getting bigger. :-) I do a good blooper. Happy holidays.
Is it fine to feed daily? Don’t know if feeding bloodworms caused ammonia spike? 4 of my orandas died but I added some fishes 9 days ago though…and my tank is running 9 months.
I feed my fish dried tubifex worm.They come in cube and its super easy to feed.My ember tetra love the worm so much as soon as i drop it theres always a greedy ember that snatch all of the chunk by its mouth and swam across the tank with it then ate it 😂
One of my new angels won't eat. Day 4. Help? Tried frozen bloodworms on day 2 and frozen mysis yesterday. LFS is out of live brine. Insuforia culture empty. Still need a week or two. I've tried maybe 5 staple foods. I'm thinking of throwing in a live baby dubia. He sucks in a lot of air from the surface. It looks like he's drinking. Occasionally he will exhale a single bubble after. His old tank was in the throes of OTS. Pretty acidic, 0 KH, nitrate and GH off the chart. New tank ph neutral, 75 gh, low Kh, low nitrate, same temperature. He's part of a bonded pair which has hatched babies. I feel like I'm seeing breeding tubes. Female eats literally anything. He's protecting her some, and watches the food, and swims away from it. Not hiding much. Heavily planted, lots of swim space too. 120 gallon with 5 yoyos, 12 pentazonas(get some for your shy tank, cheap pretty schooling predatory peaceful and fast in a big enough tank), some platies, half a dozen Otos, and a poor single male ram. I've had some problems with bloat in this tank, even had a weaker platy pinecone. But that was months ago before I started "making" water. Water not otherwise treated. No chemicals, no sodium. Just plant food, mostly potassium, calcium, and magnesium sulfates as well as chelated iron,
Lots of choices and you can culture some yourself Like - Whiteworms, Daphnia, Microworms, Banana Worms, wingless fruit flies, Vinegar Eels, Baby Brine Shrimp
Michael i need your suggestions bro, i moved my 5 electric blue acaras to a 30gl long tank with a salt water white rock as decor....... used a cycled filter and the same water from a 75 pleco tank where i originally had the acaras but ever seens i moved them from tanks idk why they suddenly stopped eating they look at the food but dont go for it , idk if its bc i fed them frozen blood worms for the first time before i moved them, its been 5 days now and im starting to get worried all the food is at the bottom of the tank i tried flakes frozen and not frozen blood worms , what should i do ? Idk if this helps too but i did find eggs the second day after i moved them and now they are wigglers have them in a mesh breeder with the parents saved them bc they were getting eaten
The baby fish are gone😳😳🧐🧐 can the parents suck up the fish from the mesh...... i think they just did🤦🏽♂️😑 its my second batch, i ended up having 2 pairs
I thaw out raw regular shrimp, mince it up really fine like a gel then throw it in my tanks. My fish go crazy for it! Pound for pound it's a way cheaper food source with comparable protein to brine shrimp. But it is higher in cholesterol too. So I only feed it 2-3 times a week, while adding vegetation like green beans or seaweed. (Thaw in cold water only) Even luke warm water after a few minutes starts to kind of cook it, which makes it a tougher texture and harder for fry to eat. If it doesn't work out well for you, take the rest of the unminced shrimp, throw it in a frying pan with sweet chilli suace and butter, fry it to a golden root beer color and apply to steamed jazmine rice with a side of steamed and lightly salted broccoli... 😆 nom nom nom! I doubt it will come to this though. I've yet to find a fish that doesnt like it. 😎
Just and FYI there are different sized bloodworms Hikari has two sizes large and small , San Fransisco Bay has large ones only . Large worm are too big for gupps and many other smaller fish . I hate Hikari corporation but when it comes to frozen bloodworms I do like the fact they have the smaller worms .
Allergic here too. If I handle them, then touch anywhere near my eyes, game over. Red swollen itchy hell. I also have allergies to other kinds of fish if I eat them. Shellfish, on the other hand, I can eat all day long.
I hold the frozen food in my hand so my clown loaches will eat out of it. Most tanks I swirl it around at the surface to melt it. My gold oscellatus.... I dump it in and hide. He scares me. I usually feed mysis shrimp. I like the Tuxedo Kois! Darjeeling Tea.
Yep, all our fishies don't get blood worms any longer because our family has allergic reactions from mild to moderately severe. Coughing like crazy to rash and burning on hands. We use tubifex worms instead.
Thawing using tank water is really not a good idea. Freezing process breaks down the meat material that holds the nutrition of the food source, pretty much it's in the way ice crystals form in the food. That's why the process of thawing plays a big role in holding the nutritional value. The best way to thaw is in a fridge for a 2-3 days. Many nutrients are water soluble and lost when thawing using water, hot water being worse. Warming or thawing at room temperature is not a good idea either as it gives proper growing conditions for microbacteria that results in the parasitic loss of nutritional value and exposes your fish to those.
@@farajarafi fed Hakari blood worms the exact package he’s using. For the most part they are clean. But ever so often you can get a batch that has parasites. Like hexamina or camalanus worms. I just stopped feeding bloodworms and stuck to krill or brine shrimp.
@@MichaelsFishRoom in my experience that’s not the case. I don’t mean to imply you’re wrong. But the only way I was able to get rid of them was bleach and cattle dewormer. All I’m saying is be careful with Hakari frozen blood worms and there are two strains of camalanus worms. One can go dormant and even skip a life cycle. Just trying to drop a tip that’s all. And my fish love these worms It sucks that that was my experience but it was.
I got a flowerhorn because of chewy man and that’s what took him out. He was separate had his own tank, supplies, and equipment. He was worn free until I fed these worms.
Taco chewing on air line at end was sweet
He is adorbs!
Thanks for sharing bro. You're always putting out great info. I was dying when you took off your glasses to read the bloodworm label. The room is looking awesome
Lol...thanks. Make sure to tell all your friends.
Sorry... But Bro is so 2010s... unless he is your bro..😂😂
I also defrost them in tank water quite frequently as it allows me to get more worms distributed around the tank evenly for bottom feeders and those that aren’t as aggressive as the ones attacking the floating frozen cubes.
Yup
I could be wrong but I’ve found these frozen foods, from a respectable source, are awesome and help with getting the breeding so to speak begin. Or if you have a fry tank to feed. Although I’m a believer in making fresh hatch brine shrimp for my fry.
A person just has to be careful on the source who they buy from otherwise you can have other problems. It’s not an everyday feeding which I totally agree with. I wouldn’t say it’s a treat as much as I would say it’s a periodically feeding to help breeding as well as give the fish something different than flakes or pellets.
You mentioned in another TH-cam about switching up foods. I so agree. This is one way of switching up foods. Again Michael,excellent information.
I agree!
I buy frozen blood worms and brine shrimp.. San Francisco Bay (Sally's) and Hikari brands. Just got 16 pounds...8 of each! Never had an issue with the products. I thaw them unless I'm in a hurry...then I toss in a chunk and run!
By the way ...I feed them to all sorts of fish without issue. My plecos LOVE BLOOD WORMS! Never had a problem with any plecos eating them, though I see guys on TH-cam say not to feed them to L134 for example. My 134s adore them!
Great video. All good and accurate info in my opinion.
Bloodworms are great!
Thank you for this review. I am new to this concept of feeding Frozen Fish Food.
Glad it was helpful!
I can't seem to find the link for the small pipette you used for feeding the frozen food , thanks in advance.
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Great video. Could you talk about using salt for stress & parasites, water changes after salt & how much to use. So much info pro & con. Thank you for your time
Great suggestion!
I love watching dropping the frozen cubes in and watching the platies chase them. It's like a game of water polo with them.
Lol
Hikari frozen blood worms(both sizes), mysis ( both sizes), brine shrimp, silversides (for sw fish) and rotifers.
Omega One bbs, cyclops, daphnia and Alaskan shrimp(for sw fish).
Damn, your fish eat good.
I use my old fish food containers to thaw out my frozen food. Saves on money.
Grear idea!
I use needless syringe to feed frozen food. I feed frozen food once a week and rotating daphnia, cyclops,brine shrimp. Fry tank gets baby brine shrimp every morning though.
Sounds great!
I’m allergic to bloodworms..my eczema comes back😢So I use a Turkey baster(Pipette)..when the bloodworm is defrosted in my little pot too..
Thanks for watching!
Iv just brought frozen shrimp ( they’re tiny) do I need to take the shells and everything off before I feed them? Please help and thank you so much 👍
What kind of shrimp? What are you feeding?
@@MichaelsFishRoom hi. Thank you for your reply, but my son came around and fed the ( peeled shrimp) to the fish but the fish didn’t like the shrimp after all. 👍
Just curious what is everyone's healthy snack and beverage? Mine not healthy. fried chicken and bang energy drink.
Spiked eggnog and coffee. No solids needed.
I had water and air.
I need to check out the website. Love the videos.
Thanks, and yes you should!
My fish get frozen mysis shrimp, frozen brine, frozen cyclops, frozen baby brine, frozen daphnia, and frozen blood worms. Not all at the same time. They also get Xtreme Krill & Spirillina and Bug Bites and sometimes Vibra Bites. On occasion I'll get a wild hair and make repashy. I tried to feed a variety. Taco is getting bigger. :-) I do a good blooper. Happy holidays.
They eat well!
Anyone have any tips on how to cut up the flat packs ? (Not just breaking a chunk off)
Leave it in the pack, let it thaw a little and then use a pizza cutter.
@@MichaelsFishRoom it’s okay to re freeze it ?
@@jamiewalker3383 as long as it is not completely defrosted
Very good tutorial on the frozen food.
Thank you so much
Great video brother. I feed my bettas the same brand blood worms.
Thanks!
In case they have a cold or something.... Good one!
Lol
Is it fine to feed daily? Don’t know if feeding bloodworms caused ammonia spike? 4 of my orandas died but I added some fishes 9 days ago though…and my tank is running 9 months.
No, I wouldn't.
@@MichaelsFishRoom just realized!😔😢Thank you!
@@carlowehermosa956 You're welcome
I feed my fish dried tubifex worm.They come in cube and its super easy to feed.My ember tetra love the worm so much as soon as i drop it theres always a greedy ember that snatch all of the chunk by its mouth and swam across the tank with it then ate it 😂
Frozen?
@@MichaelsFishRoom dried not frozen
Hi Michael awesome video I feed blood worms twice a week.
Well done!
Yeah man, I've heard the same thing about dubia roaches. Great feeders that some people can't breath around.
Icky!
One of my new angels won't eat. Day 4. Help? Tried frozen bloodworms on day 2 and frozen mysis yesterday. LFS is out of live brine. Insuforia culture empty. Still need a week or two. I've tried maybe 5 staple foods. I'm thinking of throwing in a live baby dubia.
He sucks in a lot of air from the surface. It looks like he's drinking. Occasionally he will exhale a single bubble after.
His old tank was in the throes of OTS. Pretty acidic, 0 KH, nitrate and GH off the chart. New tank ph neutral, 75 gh, low Kh, low nitrate, same temperature.
He's part of a bonded pair which has hatched babies. I feel like I'm seeing breeding tubes. Female eats literally anything. He's protecting her some, and watches the food, and swims away from it. Not hiding much. Heavily planted, lots of swim space too. 120 gallon with 5 yoyos, 12 pentazonas(get some for your shy tank, cheap pretty schooling predatory peaceful and fast in a big enough tank), some platies, half a dozen Otos, and a poor single male ram.
I've had some problems with bloat in this tank, even had a weaker platy pinecone. But that was months ago before I started "making" water. Water not otherwise treated. No chemicals, no sodium. Just plant food, mostly potassium, calcium, and magnesium sulfates as well as chelated iron,
Sorry
How do you know It's Delicious?
I just know.
What is a good live food for fish ?
Blackworms
Live bloodworms
Lots of choices and you can culture some yourself Like - Whiteworms, Daphnia, Microworms, Banana Worms, wingless fruit flies, Vinegar Eels, Baby Brine Shrimp
Many different choices
"Vitamin C in case they get a cold" hahaha!
LOL
Michael i need your suggestions bro, i moved my 5 electric blue acaras to a 30gl long tank with a salt water white rock as decor....... used a cycled filter and the same water from a 75 pleco tank where i originally had the acaras but ever seens i moved them from tanks idk why they suddenly stopped eating they look at the food but dont go for it , idk if its bc i fed them frozen blood worms for the first time before i moved them, its been 5 days now and im starting to get worried all the food is at the bottom of the tank i tried flakes frozen and not frozen blood worms , what should i do ? Idk if this helps too but i did find eggs the second day after i moved them and now they are wigglers have them in a mesh breeder with the parents saved them bc they were getting eaten
The baby fish are gone😳😳🧐🧐 can the parents suck up the fish from the mesh...... i think they just did🤦🏽♂️😑 its my second batch, i ended up having 2 pairs
I thaw out raw regular shrimp, mince it up really fine like a gel then throw it in my tanks. My fish go crazy for it! Pound for pound it's a way cheaper food source with comparable protein to brine shrimp. But it is higher in cholesterol too. So I only feed it 2-3 times a week, while adding vegetation like green beans or seaweed. (Thaw in cold water only) Even luke warm water after a few minutes starts to kind of cook it, which makes it a tougher texture and harder for fry to eat.
If it doesn't work out well for you, take the rest of the unminced shrimp, throw it in a frying pan with sweet chilli suace and butter, fry it to a golden root beer color and apply to steamed jazmine rice with a side of steamed and lightly salted broccoli...
😆 nom nom nom!
I doubt it will come to this though. I've yet to find a fish that doesnt like it.
😎
Lol...thanks for the recipe.
I feed frozen Baby Brine Shrimp and Frozen Daphnia on occasion. I stick with Hikari brand. I might try frozen Cyclops at some point.
NicE!
I love feeding cyclops to small and baby fish.
Me too
My tank gets a mix of Cyclops, Daphnia, Cyclops, Rotifers, live baby brine and pellets used at random
Nice!
Black coffee and 1/2 grapefruit. Good tips on frozen foods.
👍💓👍
That is a strange combination. LOL
@@MichaelsFishRoomI agree.. Grapefruit can be harmful to humans even...
Cyclops better then BBS for fry growth?
About the same
Had no idea about the allergy of blood worms some people have ... what are the symptoms of being allergic to it ?
Everything from a rash to anaphylaxis
Where gloves. Good habit.
taco is such a beast i wish i had one
Buy one!
I don't have these frozen nearby unfortunately, so I feed my fish shrimp, cod and sometimes chicken
OK
Just and FYI there are different sized bloodworms Hikari has two sizes large and small , San Fransisco Bay has large ones only . Large worm are too big for gupps and many other smaller fish . I hate Hikari corporation but when it comes to frozen bloodworms I do like the fact they have the smaller worms .
That being said - I don't feed bloodworms any longer here . So I don't have to fund Hikari at all LOL
I don't really either.
I love cinnamon but found out many years ago that I'm allergic to handling bloodworm
Sorry!
Gloves.
Squirt squirt squirt lol love what you do
Thanks!
Hie bro I’m from India I learnt from your videos
Glad to hear that
Do you sell Lemon Plecos?
Lemon Blue Eye?
@@MichaelsFishRoom Yes. Do they come with other eye colors?
No, but lemon plecos and blue eye lemon plecos are different. You can see all my stock at www.Michaelsfishroom.com
I'm looking for a blue eyed female pleco. When will you have some for sale?
Damn. I feed mine bloodworms daily. They love it too.
not the healthiest thing to do everyday
I wouldn't do it daily.
Been doing it for years.
i feed frozen blood worms twice a week and just drop the cubes in to the tank and watch the wifes angels go in to a feeding frenzy.
Cool
I'm allergic to bloodworms 🙋 Horrible rashes on my hands after feeding so I use tongs
Allergic here too. If I handle them, then touch anywhere near my eyes, game over. Red swollen itchy hell. I also have allergies to other kinds of fish if I eat them. Shellfish, on the other hand, I can eat all day long.
Same here
Sorry to hear that
I used Omega 1 Frozen freshwater community formula and now I can't find it and I have some fishappointed 😥
That is OK, try Ocean Nutrition.
vit C in case they get cold :)))) vit B for hair and nails 🐡 your fish are so beautiful
LOL....good suggestion!
thanks for this i get scared that i feed them to much
You're Welcome!
I like to defrost cubes in a shot glass.
Me too and feed with glass dropper 😁
Nice!
I hold the frozen food in my hand so my clown loaches will eat out of it. Most tanks I swirl it around at the surface to melt it. My gold oscellatus.... I dump it in and hide. He scares me. I usually feed mysis shrimp. I like the Tuxedo Kois!
Darjeeling Tea.
Thanks for the play by play, but no snack?
Very interesting how some brands have 24 cubes and some 36 cubes since most is just 3.5 oz
And this one was 35
No snack just yet but I do have a large coffee in front of me.
Me too! Coffee is ESSENTIAL!
Nice
Thanks!
I'm number 500 thumbs up! :)
Thanks
What's your healthy snack and beverage? Right now I'm eating Christmas tree shaped cake and drinking Mountain Dew :)
Spiked eggnog coffee. No food needed...
It's holiday food so it's all good!
Thank you I just started feeding my cichlids,arowanas and bettas frozen bloodworms and wow they absolutely love it 😍
#FrizenCrack 😂
LOL
I feed the Jumbo Blood WormS to my spotted puffer and bettas...also my African Clawed Frogs and Fiddler Crab...😉
Nice
My frozen food rotation includes:
Hikari - bloodworms, mysis, brine w/spirolina, daphnia
Cobalt - ca mysis
SFB - baby brine
Then there is also Extreme krill & spirolina flakes, Omega color flakes and freeze dried tubifex worms, Cobalt sinking pellets & algae wafers, Sera O-nip tabs, fluval bug bites
Great selection! I would drop the fluval bug bites and go with the NF bug pro.
A tablespoon of tapwater in 30 gals of water is not gonna matter!!
huh?
Hi
Hiya
Yep, all our fishies don't get blood worms any longer because our family has allergic reactions from mild to moderately severe. Coughing like crazy to rash and burning on hands. We use tubifex worms instead.
Good thing you know!
Dont eat em!! 😂😂 I use gloves anyway...
I just use tap water to defrost my frozen foods have no issues
Cool
Thawing using tank water is really not a good idea. Freezing process breaks down the meat material that holds the nutrition of the food source, pretty much it's in the way ice crystals form in the food. That's why the process of thawing plays a big role in holding the nutritional value. The best way to thaw is in a fridge for a 2-3 days. Many nutrients are water soluble and lost when thawing using water, hot water being worse. Warming or thawing at room temperature is not a good idea either as it gives proper growing conditions for microbacteria that results in the parasitic loss of nutritional value and exposes your fish to those.
Thanks
Red dragons are fucking awesome looking guppies
Thanks!
Tiger barbs
What a bout them?
I am one of those weirdos that will swell up if I even smell them. Need epi pen and an ambulance 😂. Bad bad blood worms 🪱
Ugh....sorry! How’s my girl doing?
Frozen Baby Brine and Cyclops fed here by Ocean Nutrition - No cash goes to Hikari lol .
Good stuff!
I think you can stop feeding the fish once they're frozen.
Lol
Of course fish need treats! I'm having a healthy salad.
Nice
Hey give taco a popsicle of blood worms. And see if he likes them. He could get brain freeze.
He loves them!
Those worms gave my flowerhorn and green Terrors camalanus worms. Just saying be careful
What?
@@farajarafi fed Hakari blood worms the exact package he’s using. For the most part they are clean. But ever so often you can get a batch that has parasites. Like hexamina or camalanus worms. I just stopped feeding bloodworms and stuck to krill or brine shrimp.
Not a chance. Camalanus worms would die when frozen.
@@MichaelsFishRoom in my experience that’s not the case. I don’t mean to imply you’re wrong. But the only way I was able to get rid of them was bleach and cattle dewormer. All I’m saying is be careful with Hakari frozen blood worms and there are two strains of camalanus worms. One can go dormant and even skip a life cycle. Just trying to drop a tip that’s all. And my fish love these worms It sucks that that was my experience but it was.
I got a flowerhorn because of chewy man and that’s what took him out. He was separate had his own tank, supplies, and equipment. He was worn free until I fed these worms.
Hot coffee
Ice Coffee
POOP TONNNNNNNNNN!
Yup
66th comment super late sorry
🤦🏻♂️
@@MichaelsFishRoom sorry got my first flower horn was super excited 😀