Live ones,for the little fishies of course.I scooped up a whole net full and dumped it in my feeder tank and my minnows,Killies and baby bala sharks love them.Just wondering if anyone else has tried them?
Does anyone use mosquito larvae as feeders?
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I did back then when I was in vietnam. People just love to feed them to their guppies and discus. And they're cheap too! But not fun when the larvae started to turn into mosquito...
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Yeah they're cheap alright,best price ever lol.I can see them being a problem if they are allowed to mature into adults but in my tanks they are there only for a few minutes before the fish have gobbled them all up.
True. Haha. I heard that feeding small fish mosquito larvae is better than pellets or any other food. What do you think about this??
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I was actually wondering what their nutritional value might be...They could be better than brine shrimp for small fish.
When I was a kid my parents had a large rain collection system for their garden. Every summer I would go to the bait shop and buy minnows to put in there to control the misquote larvae. They lived fat and happy in there all summer
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I have used mosquito larvae as feeders before occasionally during the summer like right now.. but eventually it was just way too messy in the end, and I stopped because all of the sludge build-up on the bottom, and sometimes the mosquito larvae manage to turn into adults, so cause of that, I could get in trouble for mosquitoes in the neighborhood, and you sometimes you would have to strain all the crud out to get to the mosquitoes..nasty..so like I said, messy lol. I would only feed larvae again if I have a lot of time on my hands to bother and if I'm runnning crazy low on cash and want something free. Their nutritional value is pretty decent, probably high in protein and iron or something.
mosquito larvae is a good food for small fish and young fish. Their nutrition value isn't as much but I heard it is good for enhance colors. They are use as main food for small Flowerhorn, discus(and probably in some cichild too) to enhance the development of the pearls on their body.
