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05-10-2004, 03:31 PM
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live food
hi
can u feed live insects from the garden to the fish??
plzz reply
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05-10-2004, 04:09 PM
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I don't recommend live food. It can introduce all kinds of harmful bacteria and other chemicals to the tank, but this is a somewhat debated topic.
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05-10-2004, 04:58 PM
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I agree - the risk of introducing pesticides is too great. If you want to provide a live insect diet, look into getting some crickets or fruitfly cultures at your lfs.
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05-10-2004, 05:02 PM
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There are certain foods you can culture at home, or use frozen foods such as brine shrimp or blood worms. What kind of fish do you have?
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05-10-2004, 06:26 PM
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I've been meaning to ask about feeding fish fruit flies, I culture them every weeks 11 cultures for my frogs, some week I have them over produce would it be allright to feed a few to my danios?
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05-10-2004, 06:30 PM
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Since you are culturing them and if they are kept away from chemicals, it should be fine.
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05-10-2004, 06:52 PM
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I just fed my puffer a cricket for the first time a couple days ago... but it was from the lfs. they must have had a problem because there were a lot of them just jumping all over the store. so i picked one up. 8)
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05-10-2004, 06:55 PM
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How did the puffer like it?
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05-10-2004, 06:58 PM
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I culture wingless fruit flies and my cichlids love them!
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05-10-2004, 07:13 PM
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I feed my Oscars crickets all the time.
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05-11-2004, 01:24 PM
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can you feed gouramis crickets
that are bought for lizards??????????
thanx
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05-12-2004, 01:26 PM
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I don't keep gouramis. Are they big enough to take down a cricket?
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05-12-2004, 02:03 PM
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how about mollies? would the small crickets be too big? do you just drop them in live? do they float?
I got a TON of questions to this new concept
Ed
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05-12-2004, 02:11 PM
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I would start small with live foods and go from there. Aside from the question of can the fish actually eat it, you need to consider the source of the live food.
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05-13-2004, 09:57 AM
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if I buy the smallest crickets from the pet store, can I feed them to my mollies?
should I go smaller, like a worms or something?
I'd like to try live food for my mollies, just for fun as a treat
OR do you have to feed them live ALL the time once you start
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