Mouse = Disease?
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Have you ever use rat poison before? If so, you risk killing your fish with contaminated rodents for food. Mammalian protein is very difficult for most fish to digest and best avoided but if you insist, I would not advise feeding your fish for at least a few days after it eats the mouse. If I were you, choose safer foods over a mouse.
Edit: If you can find frozen pinkies, they're a much safer choice.
Edit: If you can find frozen pinkies, they're a much safer choice.
Yeah, I probably should just get some sterile 'safe' mouse...
But the Piranha seems uninterested in dead food.
I figured something struggling at the surface may be more interesting to him.
And BTW, no, no rat poison, we use the trap-door mousetraps.
The humane kind...
But the Piranha seems uninterested in dead food.
I figured something struggling at the surface may be more interesting to him.
And BTW, no, no rat poison, we use the trap-door mousetraps.
The humane kind...
If your Rhom is 10+ inches and he doesn't eat dead food, then my guess is you haven't tried very hard to feed it dead foods. Let the mouse go, and try a little harder to get your P on something other than live. It will be much healthier for him.
Sorry for being innacurate, he hasn't ate dead 'mice' { (mouse) before. }
I tried once, the pinky floated for 3 days before removal.
He loves beefheart.
I usually feed Convicts (which I breed), but am getting down to dwindling numbers. They haven't bred much lately due to losing a tank.
RARELY I feed goldies (only when I really have no other choice.)
I tried once, the pinky floated for 3 days before removal.
He loves beefheart.
I usually feed Convicts (which I breed), but am getting down to dwindling numbers. They haven't bred much lately due to losing a tank.
RARELY I feed goldies (only when I really have no other choice.)
Yes, he loves the frozen (non-precooked) shrimp.
No tiliapia or salmon, although his previous owner says he loves them too.
I'm just a bit broke right now, and like I said.. "Free Meal"
Just curious if this free meal is worth it...
(although the longer the mouse is around.. the more i wanna keep him as a pet. Ha!)
No tiliapia or salmon, although his previous owner says he loves them too.
I'm just a bit broke right now, and like I said.. "Free Meal"
Just curious if this free meal is worth it...
(although the longer the mouse is around.. the more i wanna keep him as a pet. Ha!)
I'd rather keep the mouse but I have a soft spot for rodents and would stray myself from using them as feeders. Frozen ones though are another story for me. Perhaps just find some earthworms in your garden and start culturing some in a compost box. They are loaded with too much proteins and fats though so use earthworms in moderation. Make sure your garden is free from pesticides and other harmful chemicals, of course.
I feed live mice to snakes in the event they wont eat frozen, the death is not instant, but when compared to watching fish kill a mouse, it is much quicker.
If you have ever watched a video of a piranha killing a mouse, you'll understand its a terrible death for the mouse. Im not an activist or anything, I hunt, I feed live when nessesary, but in a case like this, IMO the death of the mouse is too cruel. (Imagine being pulled 20 feet down into the water, then getting a leg and the opposite hand ripped off by a shark, struggling to get to get back to the surface for that breath of air you are about to miss). Graphic maybe, sorry, haha, but you get the idea.
Plus its much safer for your fish to avoid wildcaught food. That mouse could be eating a chemical concoction anywhere in your house or neighboors or anything.
If you really need to try something life, get a small mouse, like a pinky or a hopper, that is a 1 hit-KO on the mouse if the fish nails it.
Cheers,
Chris
If you have ever watched a video of a piranha killing a mouse, you'll understand its a terrible death for the mouse. Im not an activist or anything, I hunt, I feed live when nessesary, but in a case like this, IMO the death of the mouse is too cruel. (Imagine being pulled 20 feet down into the water, then getting a leg and the opposite hand ripped off by a shark, struggling to get to get back to the surface for that breath of air you are about to miss). Graphic maybe, sorry, haha, but you get the idea.
Plus its much safer for your fish to avoid wildcaught food. That mouse could be eating a chemical concoction anywhere in your house or neighboors or anything.
If you really need to try something life, get a small mouse, like a pinky or a hopper, that is a 1 hit-KO on the mouse if the fish nails it.
Cheers,
Chris
