Culturing Mosquito Larvae

[greenmaji]

to be honest with you a heathy fish can go without eating for weeks.. dont worry about the betta.. daphnia are water fleas.. you can order a culture off of aquabid (sometimes e-bay) If I were to try the mosquito larva I would likely scoop and freze them with some tank water in ziplock type bags (feed like fozen bloodworms)

 

[krap101]

hmm spits it out?? i think thats their way of breaking up the food?

 

[jrp1588]

Is it just fish flakes? My betta isn't fond of flakes, I have to feed him freezedried blood worms. Finicky little fella.

 

[azn_fishy55]

I feed him pellets and freeze dried blood worms and just recently frozen bloodworms. He ignores the frosen bllodworms and he tries the pellets but then he just spits it out and leaves it alone.

 

[azn_fishy55]

Well I have the container outside and I put some pots in it since this morning and now it is a darkish color.

 

[azn_fishy55]

I tried feeding him another dry food and he is still not eat. I tried frozen food(Blood Worms) too he doesn't eat them either.

 

[jrp1588]

Did you tell your betta that he was fat? Maybe he has developed an eating disorder. Poor anorexic fishy

 

[azn_fishy55]

no he doesn't look fat. He tries too eat the food but then spits it out then leaves it alone.

 

[jrp1588]

Ahh, so it's a bulemic fish, terrible.

 

[azn_fishy55]

bulemic???

 

[aqh88]

The pellets might be too big for his liking. Alot of fish will grab some food and spit out to try and breaking it smaller pieces. My threadfins do the same thing when I feed the other fish. They'll grab a pellet then spit it out and swim off cause it's too big. Try some flakes instead or a smaller type of pellet.
Mosquito control in my area is a group of barn swallows and my small pond. It's a stock tank 1' deep by 4'x3'. I throw in a few hardy fish and some fast growing plants. Instant mosquito trap and I have some real healthy fish by the end of the summer. I also haven't been bit by a mosquito at my house in 3years.

 

[azn_fishy55]

Well the pellet I feed by hikari are baby pellets and they seem pretty small. And the HBH plellets are small too. And as far as I know, Bettas reject flakes. On Tuesday I will try to feed him live blackworms through a worm feeder. Does anyone know any betta food brands that I haven't tried feeding my betta. The ones I have used are Hikari and HBH.

 

[jrp1588]

I feed mine sanfransisco bay brand blood worms, he seems to love them.

 

[azn_fishy55]

I am going to try Marineland Brand Betta food.

 

[Meredith]

have you tried feeding flake food? My betta eats mainly flake, with frozen blood worms, freeze dried of the same, and a bit of pea now and again. Try the flakes.

 

[krazymom]

Well the pellet I feed by hikari are baby pellets and they seem pretty small. And the HBH plellets are small too. And as far as I know, Bettas reject flakes. On Tuesday I will try to feed him live blackworms through a worm feeder. Does anyone know any betta food brands that I haven't tried feeding my betta. The ones I have used are Hikari and HBH.

I bought the brand Wardley at Walmart and my betta likes it. The pellets are bigger than some I've seen.

 

[azn_fishy55]

I'll try the Wardley brand betta food when we go to walmart. I tried some flakes yesterday he just spit it up and left it alone.

 

[azn_fishy55]

Today I have found the only food he eats, he ONLY eats live tubefix worms. Well, not ONLY but from the foods I have tried this is the only food I had success with.

 

[jrp1588]

Good, finally. Success!

 

[amitnarain]

OMG breeding mosquito larvae can be very disease-prone.