Food

[shimanocono]

What are some foods yo can feed your fish that live outside. Like stuff you could get from your backyard. What would fish eat?

 

[CFC]

Depends what fish you keep,my fish will eat just about anything.

In the summer i use mosquito larvae which i collect from little pots i leave out and i use earthworms that i collect off the lawn early in the morning all year round.
In the wild fish eat a lot of insects that either live in the water or fall in off of bankside vedgetation so just choose insects that your fish can manage and try them.

 

[shimanocono]

Would ant6s be good to feed them?

 

[CFC]

I dont know really,ive never tried them.Chuck a couple in and see if they eat them i cant see it doing any harm.

 

[shimanocono]

I put one in and my black tetra ate it. I just didn't want to put anymore in incase it is abd for them. I asked around a couple forums I'll see what responses I get

 

[Elisabeth]

I tried putting some ants in but my fish (tetras, platys and gouramis/ didn't really like them. Of the three I put in, two drowned and one got pecked to death. Took him while to die - it wasn't nice.

 

[Elisabeth]

CFC do you have to mash up the worms? And if so what method do you use?

 

[CFC]

Elisabeth i dont "mash" the worms up but i do cut them into inch long sections with sissors so that they are easier for the fish to manage and they cant bury themselves into the substrate.