Image Courtesy: Thanks to Matthias Tilly (From Wiki Commons) for allowing us to use this image ( link) based on Create Common License. Since the size of a guppy fish is a quality parameter, tubifex is a good food source for your guppy. Though there are other other protein rich foods that can make your guppy colorful, tubifex worms can produce healthy fishes and increase the rate of growth. This is done by forcefully washing them in running water. They can be used only after cleaning their gut. They may be infected with various diseases. There is a problem with tubifex worms harvested from natural resources. Usually these structures have 2 to 3 inches of sand sediment with decaying organic vegetable matter, on which the worms grow. Tubifex can be easily cultured on mass scale.
They can also survive in waters with heavy concentration of organic substances, where most of the other organisms cannot survive. They can also absorb substances through their body walls. Commonly know as sludge worm or tubifex worm, Tubifex tubifex are found in the bottom of lakes, rivers, and occasionally sewer lines and outlets (Place where the ditch joins fresh water reservoir.
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