If a aquarium fish would eat a pond minnow, will the aquarium fish get sick?

Question

I didn't know if the minnow would carry any disease and harm the fish when they eat it...

It would much apprecitiated

Answer 1

Parasites and diseases brought into the home aquarium by feeder fish raised in ponds have killed a great many prize fish kept by aquarists.

Feeder fish are not a good idea for large aquarium fish. The possibilities for illness and/or death are just too numerous. The best thing for large aquarium fish is frozen foods sold for them, white fish from the grocery store, peeled shrimp from the store, good high protein pellets and/or flakes and cooked veggies. I parboil zucchinni for my cichlids all the time and they love it. Slice it thin, parboil, freeze the slices and keep in the freezer in a zip lock bag for feeding later.

Answer 2

Maybe, maybe not... as you said, there is no way to know if the pond minnow has a disease or parasite that could infect your tank. Unless the minnow has been quarantined for at least 2 weeks before hand, I wouldn't do it.

MM

Answer 3

Omg undesirable theory. truly undesirable. one night you notice the fish basically swimming flippantly. nextr night ull see scraps of the fish left . I even have 2 purple eared slider turtles and that i dont feed them basically known puppy foodstuff, i feed them approximately an index finger long fish. 4 an afternoon. yet my turtles are 6 inches long. so if ures is longer, the fish is lifeless. if its shorter then six inches, their is a reasonable possibility like 50/50 that the turtle will consume the fish

Answer 4

i would not feed fish from lakes or pounds to your fish in your tank.
any time chemicals are used out side "like in grass" the run off water gose into lakes and pounds. Thease chemicals build up in fish and your fish may die from eating them.
Its never a good idea.

Answer 5

Do not introduce wild fish into your aquarium. You don't know what diseases, parasites, etc, they might have.

Answer 6

Don't do it