Will copper medications kill mosquito larvae?
- Thread starter Too Many Choices
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Yeah I feed them when its not and during mosquito season. The pellets for my koi and gold fish are too big for the mosquito fish so I feed them flakes and sometimes throw in cubes of brine shrimp or bloodworm. They do nibble on the pellets though.
It's your stagnant water. Stagnant water calls for breeding grounds for these pests. Why not adjust your filter to create surface movements until you have your fish?
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If you put some small fish in there, when your target fish get there, the tank would be cycled and ready for use? I wonder what's the rush to copper bomb the tank...it would create a mess and dead snails would mess up the water.
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I'd rather fishless cycle than use fish that have to be able to live in black water conditions.
The rush is so I can actually sleep without getting savaged by Mosquitos!
The rush is so I can actually sleep without getting savaged by Mosquitos!
Okay so buy some expensive, Asian black-water fish, that will be biotope suitable with sparkling gourami's (most likely Boraras brigittae, or other microrasbora) that I'll put through a cycle, probably having most die from ammonia exposure. Or I could simply find out if copper will, or will not kill mosquito larvae, and then just do a couple of major waterchange's before doing a fish-less cycle.
Sounds a bit more reasonable to me than just buying fish that I don't want, or have room for.
Sounds a bit more reasonable to me than just buying fish that I don't want, or have room for.
Why don't you just net the larvae out and then cover the aquarium so mosquitoes can't breed in it?
