Feeding question

[Beastije]

Yeah I had to google the bloodworm name, because when I put it in google it found a different thing. In here it is sold as a "mosquito larvae, red", and it is Chironomus plumosus. In summer I feed white mosquito larvae from my pond. The frozen daphnia and cyclops are also insects. They also sell frozen tubifex, should I include that too?

 

[GaryE]

I have heard terrible things about tubifex, and great ones. I have no access myself. My Scleromystax and Corys get occasional 'wild caught' bloodworms, but I use no frozen foods, for no major reason. Access.
I use home cultured whiteworms about twice a week when I want to breed the fish. Freshly hatched brine shrimp - and bug bites.

You can take what everyone says here and make your own plans. We're probably all mostly right and maybe partly wrong...

 

[Byron]

Ian Fuller does not advocate bloodworms as any sort of basic food for cories, so I would avoid them except as once a week treats. If memory serves me, Neale Monks had something to say about not feeding these much as well. Their nutritive value is far less than any quality prepared/dry food like bug bites and shrimp pellets and these are certainly easier to feed--and much, much healthier.

I share the allergy to bloodworms. When I did feed them once weekly, I had to be very careful not to allow my hands to come into contact or I got a terrible rash (the frozen cubes pushed into a dish of warm water solved this). I had to hold the dish away so I could not smell them, or I choked up terrible with very itchy watery eyes.