I like to feed bugs (mainly ants) to my fish, I freeze them and mix them in with frozen food, is this a good idea?
Are bugs healthy for fish?
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It's a very good idea, as long as they don't have any chemicals (pesticides etc) on them.
Other insects many fish love: crickets, grasshoppers, Japanese beetles, katydids, mayfly larvae (a favorite of many fish), earthworms ,tomato hornworms,junebugs (frozen then thawed), many aquatic insects ,dead wasp, houseflies,lacewings ,etc
Insects to avoid include: lady bugs, fireflies, stink bugs, toxic caterpillars,centipedes and millipedes,any fuzzy bugs.
Other insects many fish love: crickets, grasshoppers, Japanese beetles, katydids, mayfly larvae (a favorite of many fish), earthworms ,tomato hornworms,junebugs (frozen then thawed), many aquatic insects ,dead wasp, houseflies,lacewings ,etc
Insects to avoid include: lady bugs, fireflies, stink bugs, toxic caterpillars,centipedes and millipedes,any fuzzy bugs.
Ok thanks, what about the egg sacs of ants? I just went and broke apart some rotten logs at a park and found egg sacs from ants, they are a small white sac, about the size of a an adult brine shrimp and they don't move.
Those are good too! They used to be sold as animal food way back, not as much anymore.
Another cool food for larger fish are hellgramites (careful they bite).
And Phoenix worms are a good food to buy at pet stores (note never refrigerate Phoenix worms unless you want them dead).
If your brave enough wasp larvae can be used
OK thank you, I’m 14 and my parents said you can have fish but you’re paying for all the supplies so I’m doing this to save a bit more money, I only have tetras , kuhli and dojo loaches, danios, barbs, an albino red tail shark, 2 plecos in a 29 gallon and 3 dwarf puffers, 3 killifish, and 5 bumblebee gobies in a 10 gallon
Ah that helps, try collecting and freezing snails in local bodies of water, you can also flip rocks for small insect larvae
I have a bunch of logs in my front yard. Once a week I flip them to collect the earthworms under there as a treat. I wash and roughhandle them slightly to make them poop first.
Culture your own snails. Find some pond snail and put them in your tank. Once the numbers explode, crush them against the glass and your fish will be able to eat them.
Do you feed pellet? Because pellet saves money. A $30 jar of NLS for my 75g has lasted me a year so far, and its not even half used.
Culture your own snails. Find some pond snail and put them in your tank. Once the numbers explode, crush them against the glass and your fish will be able to eat them.
Do you feed pellet? Because pellet saves money. A $30 jar of NLS for my 75g has lasted me a year so far, and its not even half used.
