dead fish & misquito larva..

[Bsixxx]

Ok, dont know where to put this..

well i walk outside (garage) and find theres a bunch of floating crap in my tank for no reason, well i get closer and hear my xp4 gurgling
well i go behind the tank all worried that its broken or leaking..well i see that the water level is like 2" from the top, so im like WTF and turn off the filter and take a look in side and i find a flippen 2" feeder goldfish my armatus shanked and left for dead. So im like flipping out cause i think it will screw with my water and kill my armatus or whatever. So i decide to do a like 40% water change, after i get the xp4 running again, well i see freakin misquito larva swimming in my tank before and after i cleaned it . so what the heck should i do? I can't put like guppys to eat them or anything else, cause they will get eaten.. AHGGGGG

please help, thanks

 

[Tsunamiboy77]

well i had a pond with mosquito larve so i put in a betta. i guess there was too many mosquito larve so my betta died. it looked like the fins were bitten or something but i dont know. had that betta for 2 years but it was a small fish. just take out the mosquito larve with a net or something

 

[Dr Joe]

Either get a power head witha filter sock on the output to catch them, or submerge eggcrate 3 inches from the surface and put in some gambusia ( http://www.nzfreshwater.org/thumbnails/gambusia.html ) to eat them as they surface.

Or you could wait a week and they will be looking for you .

Dr Joe

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[Bsixxx]

Either get a power head witha filter sock on the output to catch them, or submerge eggcrate 3 inches from the surface and put in some gambusia ( http://www.nzfreshwater.org/thumbnails/gambusia.html ) to eat them as they surface.

Or you could wait a week and they will be looking for you .

Dr Joe

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dont want that happening, so thanks Dr. Joe
will loo into that.

my armatus might eat thm though

 

[Dr Joe]

He would be below the eggcrate and the gambusia would be above it. Kind of like putting in a ceiling .

 

[Bsixxx]

He would be below the eggcrate and the gambusia would be above it. Kind of like putting in a ceiling .

ooo, well how do i get feeders to him?
or just have it on like half the tank?

7x2x2 is alot of area to cover..

 

[Onion01]

depending on the size of the armatus, he might not even bother the mosquitofish. Otherwise, us a fine pore net to scoop them out

 

[oregonian]

where do you get the mosquitofish and can they be used as feeders. sounds like they reproduce quick.

 

[janev]

In So Ca you can get the mosquito fish here free. Check your local listings to see if you have a mosquito abatement place that is funded by the gov. Our mosquito abatement place give you the mosquitofish for FREE!

There are a lot of fish that will eat mosquito larvae, cheap feeder gold fish, guppies and bettas are only a few. in fact most fish will eat live wiggly things in their tank- I do not think you have to worry about the mosquito lasting too long once your fish recognize they have food in their tank & have your filter going again.

Mosquito larvae only live in standing water they have to come up for air and if the water has too much of a current the larvae drowns.

so you could possibly kill the mosquito larvae by agitatiing the water.

Hope this helps

 

[janev]

In So Ca you can get the mosquito fish here free. Check your local listings to see if you have a mosquito abatement place that is funded by the gov. Our mosquito abatement place give you the mosquitofish for FREE!

There are a lot of fish that will eat mosquito larvae, cheap feeder gold fish, guppies and bettas are only a few. in fact most fish will eat live wiggly things in their tank- I do not think you have to worry about the mosquito lasting too long once your fish recognize they have food in their tank & have your filter going again.

Mosquito larvae only live in standing water they have to come up for air and if the water has too much of a current the larvae drowns.

so you could possibly kill the mosquito larvae by agitatiing the water.

Hope this helps