by Dave Ball President of the Southern Colorado Aquarium Society Aquarticles Summer is just around the corner and I’ve got a real bad case of Spring fever. It seems to get worse every year. This is the time of the year when cheap fish food becomes available. What I mean by “cheap” is free food. All you have to provide is time and the containers. Grasshoppers, crickets, and earthworms are starting to show up in the yards, parks, and fields. We’ll get to the first at a later date, the good old earthworm is the subject of the day. How many of you want a fish food that is good for your fish? I

Full Length Research Paper Partial replacement of fish meal by earthworm meal (Libyodrilus violaceus) in diets for African catfish, Clarias gariepinus Fish meal is the most common source of protein for aqua feeds. However, the cost of fish meal is on the rise, because of its competing use as feed ingredient by other animals (livestock, ruminants etc.). It is therefore necessary to find alternatives to fish meal in the preparation of animal diets.Various workers have attempted to use other locally available cheap protein sources (e.g. plant protein, agricultural by- products, fishery

Earthworm And Maggot Meals As A Potential Fish Meal Replacement Three meals were formulated from the earthworm (Endrilus eugineae) and maggot (Musca domestica) and fish (Engraulis encrosicolus). These meals were evaluated as a potential replacement for fishmeal. This is because fishmeal could be very expensive at times. The three meals were used in feeding the catfish (Heterobranchus isopterus) fry for 30 days. Read

WHAT IS EARTHWORM POWDER? Adequate amount of essential amino acids, Comparable fatty acid profile are essential for shrimp, fishes, birds, Pets and all animals. Specifically in terms of lysine & combination of methionine, cysteine, phenylanine & tyrosine which are important for growth and cell repair of all animals. Preponderance of long chain fatty acids, Adaquate mineral content is inevitable. Presence of wide range of vitamins, Rich in Niacine – an unusual source of Vitamin B12 and a valuable component of animal feed, Linoleic and Linolenic acids are mandatory for animal feed a

From 2012, Anphu earthworm Co.,Ltd has launched campaign to help poor farmer along river to take water-hyacinth to raise earthworm. By collecting water-hyacinth from river then put into pp pack, after 10 days, bring home and keep in dry and lean-to. Then put vermiculture (earthworm) into pack about 5kg. after 40 days the worm eat all food, this time we can harvest worm and casting. The result, after 6 months apply, each family has over 40 bins, every month they collect 30kg of worm to feed fish, chicken, duck, pig.. otherwise, the casting they got then can fertilize plant to give very