wild feeder fish?

[pdegal331]

Would it be bad to feed my oscars and gar minos and or creyfish from my local creek?

 

[keller54]

yeah thats not a good idea, they could have tuns of paracites and creek usually arent clean so it prob has run off form the road or if u live in the country it could have fertalizer in it. so i would say dont do it

 

[Dayvydp]

Would it be bad to feed my oscars and gar minos and or creyfish from my local creek?

You risk introducing a disease to your fish. If you want feeders raise your own. Otherwise I wouldn't do it. Every body of water has its own diseases, and your fish are immuned to the diseases in your water, and the fish are immuned to the diseases in the creek. Just something to think about. So stick to raising feeders

 

[McPhishy]

Yes.

 

[FishingOut]

Wild crays are usually covered in parasites. Dont risk your stock. Pellets are much healthier anyway.

 

[papawoody]

wild fish tend to have loads of parasites ... relatively ....

 

[pdegal331]

alright well thanks i guess im not doin tht

 

[NCStateFisher]

i wouldnt for thosekind of fish, used to catch feeders for my largemouth bass though and he never had a problem until we started getting feeders from the store >.> so i'd say native fish it'd be fine but store bought tropicals probably not the best idea

 

[Allan01230]

Good way to bring in some unwanted promblems. Stick with pellets.