Feeding With Ants

[Fantail_John]

This morning I went to my LFS and I got talking about having ant in my backyard, then the shop owner turns round and said feed them to your fish as a treat? I have always been told never do this as it can cause all kind of problems and ants carry parasites. As she given me some bad info?

 

[ZoddyZod]

apparently it was a known practice to feed ant eggs to fish in the past - not heard about feeding the ants themselves though.

My comment would be - why bother with the hassle of collecting them when there is an abundance of readily available and risk free food already out there?

 

[gavinjayanand]

Definitely bad info. Ants carry many parasites. In addition, they have a high content of formic acid which is terrible for your fish. I'd steer clear of them and stick with pellets.