tubifex: good or bad?

[ellis]

What do you think? Advantages outway the disadvantages?

I buy them from time to time. Sometimes (but not always) I regret it

[corycat]

My corys love them!

[jules]

I hate tubifex. Such a hassle to keep clean - and if you don't keep it clean enough fish certainly suffer. I bought some a year back (after not having used it for years) and over the next few days I had several dead fish.

I vastly prefer to culture whiteworms - they are free, and carry none of the aquatic diseases.

Dried tubifex are probably better, but I find fish just pick - no fish I have ever owned has ever particularly gone for them.