other than potintial diseases, any other reasons not to feed your fish wild caught minnows? i could easily catch hundreds of minnows to feed my frontosas and save $$ but i don't want to if it will harm my fish.
Minnow feeders
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Agreed, you can also purchase methylene blue. This is what the bait stores keep their minnows in to prevent disease--it's why the water is blue. It's used to rear eggs (prevent fungus) and as a disease treatment. The fatheads seem to do well in it. I'd keep them in a quarantine tank with meth blue in it for a few days, then place them in old tank water to wash out and gut load them with spirulina flakes (just my opinion, i think our carnivores should get food gut loaded with the most concentrated source of vitamins available). This should speed things up. Hopefully, it will save you some feeder deaths.
On the other hand, red wigglers are a good choice. Nice and fatty.
Brandon
On the other hand, red wigglers are a good choice. Nice and fatty.
Brandon
toehead11183;737345; said:
Yeah, the law. Make sure whatever you're doing is legal in your state and you have the proper permits and equipment to do it. Also make your you can make a positive ID on any fish you catch. The last thing you need to do is use some rare wild fish as a feeder.
And other then diseases there is a risk that they could have come in contact with pollution like road or agriculture runoff.
i have used many wild caught minnows to feed my gars and peacock bass without a problem at all however lately bait store minnows introduced a nasty skin problem on some of my fish
Wild caught minnows have less of a chance of introducing disease than pet store feeders and bait shop minnows (in that order). I lost my silver arowana and eleven pbass because of disease brought in by feeders. I bought some minnows at a bait shop that I wouldn't want to go fishing with. They were horrible. They all had fungus and fin rot.
I bought a new aro and repopulated the pbass tank with gourami's and two pbass. I started to quarantine feeders so this doesn't happen again (the feeders always looked good). I bought four dozen feeders and noticed red streaks on some of them. I added medication but at the end of the week, I had three feeders that were still living.
My fish are now eating frozen krill and it is going to stay that way. (I paid $300 for this last fish and I am not going to lose him to a buck fifty worth of half dead feeders.)
I bought a new aro and repopulated the pbass tank with gourami's and two pbass. I started to quarantine feeders so this doesn't happen again (the feeders always looked good). I bought four dozen feeders and noticed red streaks on some of them. I added medication but at the end of the week, I had three feeders that were still living.
My fish are now eating frozen krill and it is going to stay that way. (I paid $300 for this last fish and I am not going to lose him to a buck fifty worth of half dead feeders.)i been feeding my fish wild ones for some time now.
got a tank outside i put them in.
i will let them swim for a few hours then i feed them some.
got a tank outside i put them in.
i will let them swim for a few hours then i feed them some.