I feed crickets to my two axolotl's my African butterfly,and I'm finding that my African cichlids as well as clown loaches and angelfish like them as well.
who else feeds crickets or any different critters
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Were you able to make the larvae sink? Im trialling it also on my fish but only a few sink and the rest floats. Most of my fish are too lazy to eat if its not on the tank bottom.
I've even tossed small tree frogs (local non poisonous varieties) and small leopard frogs into my Dempsey tank... The results aren't always pretty... On rare occasion they'll get swallowed whole but usually get carried in the mouth until another Dempsey has a partially successful steal.
Are the crickets you guys feed all store bought, or is it safe catching wild ones to feed?
Other then freeze dried blood worms, krill, baby shrimp, frozen shrimp, pellets, flakes, and sinking pellets, I also feed house flies.
We get flies in waves over the summer. I can't stand flies in the house. What the cat doesn't catch and eat gets fed to the fish.
Since they are such piggies they are already waiting for food by the time I get my hand in the water.
I'm vey curious about vitamin dusting. Is this just a regular multi vitamin crushed up? Is it safe for most all fish?
Other then freeze dried blood worms, krill, baby shrimp, frozen shrimp, pellets, flakes, and sinking pellets, I also feed house flies.
We get flies in waves over the summer. I can't stand flies in the house. What the cat doesn't catch and eat gets fed to the fish.
Since they are such piggies they are already waiting for food by the time I get my hand in the water.
I'm vey curious about vitamin dusting. Is this just a regular multi vitamin crushed up? Is it safe for most all fish?
A buddy just recently gave me a starter colony of Blaptica Dubia roaches. My Oscars really loved them once they figured out that they are food. From everything that I can find, they are great feeders: Don't fly, don't stink like crickets, don't make noise, can't climb up smooth plastic or glass and reproduce fairly rapidly. From a starter colony of about 100 (what my buddy gave me) it seems to be reasonable to have a steady stream of feeders for my fish within a couple of months. They are easy to gutload and supposedly keep whatever they are fed in their bodies for around 48 - 72 hours. Feed them ground up chicken feed and veggies sprinkled with vitamin powder (or medication when the fish need it) and they are good to go. We'll see how his turns out in a few months.
My wife took quite a bunch of convincing to let me keep them in the garage. It also gives us more incentive to build a detached garage / fishroom that we have been planning for a while.
My wife took quite a bunch of convincing to let me keep them in the garage. It also gives us more incentive to build a detached garage / fishroom that we have been planning for a while.
I'm with you on the flies! They are my nemesis. Having a kid that apparently is incapable of shutting doors is awesome in the summer.
If you know that there is no insecticides being used around you, the wild crickets should be ok.
As far as the vitamin dusting, any health food store should have powdered vitamin mix. You can either mix it into the feeders food or, as mentioned earlier, put the feeders and some vitamin powder in a ziploc and shake it up then feed your fish. The powder sticks to the feeders long enough to get into your fish. I think someone earlier also mentioned crushing up a centrum vitamin. I would assume that it does the same thing as the vitamin powder mix.
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Thank you for explaining the powder more. I think I'll give it a try sometime here. My husband and I don't treat the yard with insecticides, but do spray the foundation. I'd just have to be sure to collect them off in the woods or one of the fields if I get grave enough to try feeding them to the fish. Lol
Any risk of parasites? I think I heard you have to empty the guts of wild caught worms or starve them before feeding them or risk passing parasites on to your fish. Is there truth to this?
Someone may have more info with respect to the worms. I believe they starve the worms just to reduce the mess they make. They carry a ton of material inside them and it can cloud the water. Sometimes i squeeze down their body length over the sink while rinsing them with cold water in an attempt to get rid of the gunk. Various levels of success with that method depending on how diligently i do that. I seem to remember someone saying that earthworms don't carry fish parasites (could be me mis-remembering though, and I am too lazy to research it at the moment). I feed my fish worms from my flowerbeds and fishing worms from the store with no issues.
