Feeding bugs to my fish

[Realpedro]

Hi all.

I keep a few leopard frogs and often collect slugs, earthworms, woodlice, and other common small bugs to feed them.

I was wondering if a) there is any danger in feeding such bugs to gouramis and
b) whether plecos or corys would eat them if they sink dead to the bottom of the tank

 

[Salty&Onion]

The bugs you feed to your frogs can transfer a disease to your fish, wouldn't really recommend.

 

[Retired Viking]

I feed my tetras mosquito larvae and they seem to love it.

 

[Salty&Onion]

I feed my tetras mosquito larvae and they seem to love it.

I agree, mozzies are much safer than woodlice though they still can pass infections to fish, but not if from good sources.

 

[fish48]

I feed mosquito larvae to my fish I've got it breeding in water buts and buckets outside and i have 3 water Butts of daphnia inside the Fish House the mosquitoes are breeding regularly with the daphnia remember un- eating mosquito larvae means mosquitoes some I caught yesterday another great food for the fish

 

[Salty&Onion]

I feed mosquito larvae to my fish I've got it breeding in water buts and buckets outside and i have 3 water Butts of daphnia inside the Fish House the mosquitoes are breeding regularly with the daphnia remember un- eating mosquito larvae means mosquitoes some I caught yesterday another great food for the fish
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Occasionally there is a mosquito in my room, I kill it and my fish aren't interested in it at alll lol

 

[fish48]

all my fish are fed live foods almost daily they will eat anything that moves lol

 

[Retired Viking]

I try and have a nice batch of live larvae everyday for my tetra. I have been having issues with frogs raiding my tubs and with heavy rain washing way larvae. I am also freezing some for the winter.

 

[fish48]

I used to collect so much daphnia i used to freeze a lot of it these days I culture a lot of it

 

[fish48]

another good life food are fruit flies i onley breed the flightless ones although they don't fly they can move quite fast so a lot of the fish don't get the chance to eat them so I freeze a large percentage of them. the tub on the left is ready to go into the freezer and the other is ready to feed to the fish

 

[Realpedro]

all my fish are fed live foods almost daily they will eat anything that moves lol

Can you give some examples of bugs your fish like to eat?

Edit: Just read down further and saw your posts about daphnia and fruit flies.