Fish not liking microworms

[Jaide]

I have cultured some microworms to give my fish a bit of a treat but none of them eat them - I thought fish loved them :-?

[Ira]

They've probably never even seen them before. Give them time.

[Jaide]

What do you mean "give them time"? Keep adding them daily and see if they eventually start to eat them? One of my fighters eats microworms as he was fed them by his previous owner, yet he's not bothering with mine.

[alanmin4304]

Don't feed them for a couple of days then give them a small quantity. They have to get used to them. That is the advantage of feeding a good range of food when they are young. "Eat your spinach Johny"

[ryanjury]

Yeah id say they're not used to it.. If they have never really seen them before they wont really realise they are food, once they eat 1 or 2 they will be into it.

Happens regularly with fish I buy as I feed alot of my own home made frozen foods and alot of fish are raised on flake/pellet food when I add my food they swim around looking lost and take upto a week to figure out its food.

I always raise my baby fish on a large variety of foods so that they will eat anything making it easier for their next owners.

Keep adding little amounts until they go for it, another consideration is how big are the fish? Obviously they need to be pretty small to see and eat the micros..