How to Keep Bloodworms? A Detailed Guide to Breeding Methods and Techniques

Bloodworms are the best bait for fish, containing high protein, and in recent years they have also become one of the popular foods on dinner tables abroad, comparable to snails. Of course, most people who keep bloodworms do so to feed goldfish or to go fishing, so how do you keep bloodworms? As long as you follow the methods below, you will surely be able to keep them well. Let us take a look together!

Collecting Bloodworms

Bloodworms like to live in fertilized water with slow currents. Late spring and early autumn each year is the season when bloodworms reproduce in large numbers. They float on the water surface, often turning it brownish-red, and this is the perfect opportunity for us to collect bloodworms.

Breeding Containers

When keeping a small number of bloodworms at home, you can take back pond sludge together with the bloodworms and place them in a basin or glass container, preferably soaking them in river water. If you use tap water for breeding, you should first sun the tap water for 2 to 3 days to remove bleaching powder and other substances. Change the water every other day. In winter, prevent freezing by placing moist red cloth strips on the container to keep it damp. Containers with a relatively large contact area with the air are best for keeping them, because bloodworms will float to the water surface with movements similar to breathing, so when there are many of them, some may not be able to get a spot and die.

Light Source Control

A light source is essential for keeping bloodworms, and it cannot be turned off at night. At night you can use a small light source (such as a 5-watt night light, etc.) to shine on them, because bloodworms are too lazy to breathe, and if there is no light source, they tend to die the next day.

Feed Feeding

Most large professional bloodworm farms use rice bran, sawdust, banana peels, sugarcane bagasse, sludge, pigeon manure and the like, fermented to make breeding feed, while for home bloodworm keeping you can soak yeast powder in water to feed them, but you must control the amount used.

Harvesting and Overwintering

When the number of bloodworms increases, harvest them promptly and sun-dry them. By late autumn and winter, the reproductive capacity of bloodworms weakens greatly. When no bloodworm activity can be seen in the tank, do not pour out the water in the tank, because at this time they are all lurking among the green algae. You can place the tank in a sunny room or near a radiator. In spring, when the indoor temperature rises, the bloodworms come out and become active again. When the room temperature rises above 28°C, bloodworms begin to reproduce in large numbers.