What the *"::=;+&? Is that?!?!?
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I try to feed anything that falls in the yard. If they don't eat it soon after putting in the tank, I figure they can't, and I remove it.
Fish usually don't eat what might be toxic, they won't eat wasps, so maybe its the color that warns them off, like the warning colors of poison dart frogs.
Fish usually don't eat what might be toxic, they won't eat wasps, so maybe its the color that warns them off, like the warning colors of poison dart frogs.
And not only insects, geckos often end up on the patio, and I try not to let any death go to waste.
The only insect I refuse to feed my fish is wild crickets and centipedes. Centipedes for their venom and the crickets for the fact that most around here have what's called a horse hair worm "parasite" inside that feasts on their entrails from the inside. Granted pretty easy to check for HHW's, just step on the bug and if this long black worm comes crawling out it's no good, if no worm pops out it's safer. No wild insect is ever 100% safe to feed to your fish but I feed em anyways just to get the predatory nature of my FH's to show. Sometimes it's nice to see your fish's true nature come out from time to time. Most of my fish refuse to touch moths tho idky.
Just feed my baby delhezi bichirs worms for the first time that I dug up from my yard
I have wild mosquito larva and red worm larva in an unused hot tub. I have scooped and fed those to my fish.
These here are a couple of the larger species of moths we can find around here. Apparently one of em even comes all the way up from Texas, no clue on why but I do find em rarely around here. We usually call em giant oak moths, the ones from Texas. The other one is a type of sphinx moth that is called a hummingbird moth because of how it acts/feeds on flowers just like a hummingbird does. The top pic is the one from Texas and the other is the sphinx.
