CATDOLL : CATDOLL: What are red worms?

1. What are red worms?

A creature that lives by the river and is a good bait for fishing

2. Why don’t you eat red worms when fishing in the sea?

Because bloodworms are difficult to keep alive and die easily in the sea, fish do not like to eat dead bloodworms. When fishing at sea, you can use the ultra-long-distance casting method with a thick rod and heavy lead. Fishermen often try their best to cast the bait as far as possible. Because the bait is subjected to great force, it is difficult to cast the bait that is easy to loose. Therefore, it is best to use tougher bloodworms as bait. However, making good use of every part of the bloodworm can achieve twice the result with half the effort.

Head: There are two sets of pincers on the head, be careful not to be bitten. The head of the red worm has hard meat. Cut this part into small pieces and fish. It can be used to fish mud bream, stone dog, etc. Because the bait is hard, sometimes you can fish one and then use the remaining bait. However, due to the hardness, the effect will be poor for some fine-mouthed fish such as carp, etc. It is better to fish dead-mouthed fish such as spotted and toothed fish.

Middle: There are some hair-like tissues. This part starts to become soft and fish generally like to eat it.

Tail: This part is the youngest and softest, but it is also where the blood gathers most and it is also the most active part. It is very effective for fishing for standing fish (porgy).

Pay attention to the place when buying red worms

Since the salinity and pressure of the water change significantly when the red worms are dug, it is difficult for ordinary anglers to keep them for more than one day. When choosing red worms, you can observe the hairy tissue in the middle part of the red worms. The ones with a ruddy color are the best. Wrapping red worms with newspapers soaked in salt water can prolong the life of the red worms. Do not let the red worms contact fresh water during this period, otherwise the blood in the red worms will be drawn out of the body due to osmosis, and the red worms will definitely die. When the angler picks up the red worms with chopsticks, observing their movements can also tell the freshness of the red worms.

3. Is this a red worm? I bought it to raise fish.

This is a red nematode. The water needs to be changed every day. It is harmless to humans and will not crawl out.

4. Where are the red worms? What do they look like?

Are the red worms you are talking about the live fish food used to feed ornamental fish? They can be found in fields with stagnant water and in the mud of ponds, but when raising fish at home, especially in winter, most people choose artificial feed, which is easier to store than red worms, which are alive and difficult to preserve.

If you have an ornamental fish market in your area, you can buy them. But when buying, make sure they are bright red. If they are slightly black or white, they are dying or have already died. Don't buy them.

5. How to prevent and treat eel pilocarp disease

Pathogen: Pilid anguillarum. Symptoms Pilid anguillarum parasitizes the lateral muscles of eels. The trophozoites mainly parasitize between muscle fibers. The worm body is very small, spherical or oval, and is surrounded by a connective tissue membrane to form a cyst. The size of the cyst is 28 microns to 195 microns × 25 microns to 117 microns. After the spores in the cyst are formed, the cyst ruptures, and the spores are scattered inside and outside the muscle tissue, while dissolving the surrounding tissue, causing the body surface to collapse, and the muscles on both sides to deform, showing an uneven shape, so it is also called the bumpy disease. After the eel with a body length of about 10 cm is infected, the bumps are not obvious, and yellow-white spots can be seen. Prevalence Japanese eels, European eels, and American eels can all be infected with this disease, which is prevalent in Japan and my country. In recent years, due to the development of greenhouse eel farming, this disease has become more and more serious. Most of the sick eels in greenhouse ponds are young eels weighing about 5 grams to 50 grams. Pilid anguillarum can be infected through water, ingestion, and contact. The development of spore worms after infection is affected by temperature. They will not develop below 15℃, but will develop faster with the increase of water temperature between 15℃ and 30℃. At below 25℃, young eels may show obvious symptoms one month after infection. Prevention and control methods: Take Baichongqing (special for spore worms) orally, add it to the feed at 1% of the feed volume, feed it once a month for prevention, and feed it for 3 days each time; feed it for 7 consecutive days for treatment.