Is it safe to feed bloodworms to shrimps?

crazie.eddie · Post by **crazie.eddie** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 1:07 am

I left some FBW for my L-046 zebra plecos to eat and I happened to notice that an RCS appeared to be eating a piece of FBW, so I was wondering if it's safe to feed them FBW, since I have a seperate shrimp only tank with RCS, Amano, and Bamboos.

Beansly · Post by **Beansly** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 7:22 am

I can't imagine it would hurt, seeing as how they are detritivores, which includes dead animal matter. Actually, I'm sure it's pretty good for them.

zapisto · Post by **zapisto** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 9:21 am

i give some to mine time to time.
it generally dont take 10 min to all disapear

bochr · Post by **bochr** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 10:04 am

I give my shrimps bloodworms 1-2 times every week, and they look very happy.

Post by **Mustafa** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 10:59 am

It's safe to feed it to shrimp if you really want to (I don't think it's necessary at all) but it may not be that safe for the shrimpkeeper. Bloodworms can cause severe allergies in humans. I for one am allergic to bloodworms, which I only found out after handling them a few times. Never again....I could barely breath for a few hours and was considering going to the emergency room before the allergy symptoms started disappearing gradually. Allergic reactions to bloodworms in humans are actually quite common. If you do a google search you'll find lots of references to it.

crazie.eddie · Post by **crazie.eddie** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 11:32 am

Cool. Thanks.

Yeah, I heard about allergic reactions to FBW. I thought it was rather strange at first, until I visited several more forums and there were other people that had reactions to FBW as well.

Shrimp&Snails · Post by **Shrimp&Snails** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 12:29 pm

I feed mine those sachets of bloodworm in vitamin jelly from time to time and bloodworm pellets.