Can you possibly feed too many crickets to your fish? Is everything on them readily digestible? I just started feeding crickets and the fish, even the most picky eaters, love em. They've downed 9 dozen (mostly smaller size) in the last three nights.
crickets as feeders
- Thread starter MrfisH
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crickets make great feeders. my fish love to eat them. only prob is that i bought them for my fh and it wont touch them.
I think that crickets are an excellent source of food for carnivorous fish as they are very high in protein. I don't think that any part is indigestible, although I know that some smaller fish have problems with the legs - more a yeuch it's still moving reaction that anything else I think.
As with most fish foods though - variety is the key. So, although crickets can be raised very easily and are cheap to buy if you can't stand having them in tanks all over your house, you should ensure that your fish still get a varied diet.
hope that helps!
As with most fish foods though - variety is the key. So, although crickets can be raised very easily and are cheap to buy if you can't stand having them in tanks all over your house, you should ensure that your fish still get a varied diet.
hope that helps!
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FishHeadSoup
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Howdy,
A well-varied diet is generally best. However, there are fish that don't touch anything else, e.g. my Pantodon buchholzi. If your fish accept other varieties of food, then I'd say make crickets a part of their diet, but also feed other foods.
HarleyK
A well-varied diet is generally best. However, there are fish that don't touch anything else, e.g. my Pantodon buchholzi. If your fish accept other varieties of food, then I'd say make crickets a part of their diet, but also feed other foods.
HarleyK
My fish love crickets especially my aro. I gut load the crics with a variety of fish food, mostly the fish food my aro won't touch. There are some parts of the crics that are not digestable but fish need fibre too.
crickets are a good food, high in energy and fantastic for aro coloration!
however their addictive, they do pollute the water pretty badly and the legs have hooks on them that can catch internally. (i have seen more then 1 aro die because a cricket leg got stuck in its gut, caused infection and death!)
I used to feed my oscar a ton of crickets..
when i got into feeding aro crickets, i got in the habix of freezing them and removing the legs before i fed..
I did however, encounter problems feeding my fish frozen bugs. I would recommend to that them first
however their addictive, they do pollute the water pretty badly and the legs have hooks on them that can catch internally. (i have seen more then 1 aro die because a cricket leg got stuck in its gut, caused infection and death!)
I used to feed my oscar a ton of crickets..
when i got into feeding aro crickets, i got in the habix of freezing them and removing the legs before i fed..
I did however, encounter problems feeding my fish frozen bugs. I would recommend to that them first