Is it tru that fish will eat Misquito Larvae?? It doesnt harm them in any way or anything?? Plz explain.. :-)
2007-07-25 15:29:12 · 6 answers · asked by ((^}Jesshorty^{)) 2 in Pets ➔ Fish
Mosquito larvae are an excellent food for many fish, especially insectivores like bettas, guppies and other top water fish. Like any other food however, they should not be the only food you feed. Feed them in conjunction with a good stale food and other live or frozen foods. During the summer I grow my own in buckets and freeze any excess in old frozen food packages for the winter when there aren't any larvae to collect. Free fish food is always a good thing :)
Bloodworms are not mosquito larvae, those are the larvae of a small midge fly.
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2007-07-25 15:44:10 · answer #1 · answered by magicman116 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mosquito larvae is probably the most widely accepted form of fish food available. Any place on the planet that has mosquitos has fish that eat mosquito larvae. It is a basic form of protein and nutrition, and is a food that almost any fish will eat. Algae eaters, goldfish, even African cichlids love it. It may not be the best food for the long term for any fish, but it is still a good food.
2007-07-25 22:53:12 · answer #2 · answered by fivespeed302 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In stagnant poolings of water mosquito larva are often eaten y newts, fish, water bugs and other aquatiic animals, it is not harmful to them unless the mosquito larva has a disease, if you are thinking aout collect some and feeding it to any fish you have i reccommend you dont because they may be diseased by worse is they may be diseased and turn into mosquitos and bite you, add details about why you want to know, for more help
2007-07-25 22:39:15 · answer #3 · answered by xanadu625 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mosquito larvae or "blood worms" are sometimes an essential diet of many fish. In pet stores they will come in frozen cube packs like that dentyne ice gum where you pop it out of foil. They are frozen to kill the parasites that might be in them and also for convenience, but make sure you thaw the cube before you feed it to your fish. I own pirhanas and cichlids and feed them both these cubes daily. Hope this helped!
2007-07-25 22:47:13 · answer #4 · answered by Beardyboy37 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what? bloodworms are not misquito larvae.
perfectlly fine. Thats what wild tropical fish eat time to time.
2007-07-25 22:49:19 · answer #5 · answered by TK 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, mosquito larve are what they call blood worms.
theyare good for fishes to eat. though you always want to buythem from a company that has disease free. wild ones you always risk.
2007-07-25 22:37:52 · answer #6 · answered by Coral Reef Forum 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋