Misquitoe Larvae for Mollies and Fancies?

[Ron]

I have a bucket of standing water full of misquitoe larvea. I was wondering, could I feed the live larvae to my mollies, fancy guppies, and molly fry? Would it harm teh fish to eat the larae? Thanks,
Ron

 

[Ron]

Ok, I fed them one larvae, and one female fancy came up and ate it. Well 1 minute later she was dead on teh ground. AHHH!!! What happened??? I feel horrible. I always have to restock my guppies, my mollies are fine, they're strong, but my guppies, they're weaker then weak!!!!!!!!! RIP-Expecting female Fancy Guppy
Ron

 

[Alien Anna]

I can't imagine that eating a mosquito larvae would cause any problems - I've done it hundreds of times with no ill effects. However, I am aware that there are problems with many fancy guppies, particularly with giving birth. They just don't seem strong enough to cope with the stress of pregnancy.

Sorry about your fish. You and I seem to have about the same luck with guppies.

 

[Ron]

Yes, guppies aren't my speciallty. I'm think of not getting any more and just breeding mollies and bettas. It hell trying to keep them alive!!!
Ron

 

[Alien Anna]

If you want un-killable schooling fish get Black Neon Tetras - they are unbelievably tough! I swear mine were from the cooling towers at Chernobyl

I'm not even trying to breed guppies - I stick exclusively to boys, but even so I've lost 7 out of 15 to date. The best guppies are the moggies but I used to have 8 really gorgeous fancy "veiltails" in red, orange and yellow and bright blue and yellow.

I lost the first bright blue and yellow guppy within days - he just seemed to waste away. I assumed he'd been injured during transport and blamed myself for being clumsy. A week later, I lost another blue from a mysterious tail-melting disease (not tailrot - this was faster and more incidious). A third blue developed a sort of "blister" on his tail. I tried treating him, but his tail also melted and he died a week later.

Over my holiday I lost 3 other guppies - orange and yellows, presumably from excessively high temperatures. A fourth was so sick by the time I got back, I put him in the hospital tank but he died the next day. Now I have an orange and yellow in the hospital tank with white sort of "fungus" on him (never seen anything like it before) and a yellow and white guppy in the main tank who keeps shimmying and darting for no apparent reason.

I had the "moggies" from the same LFS, but in another tank and half the price of these "pedigrees". If I lose all the pedigrees, I might just replace them with some more moggies since they seem a lot tougher.

Like you, I wonder what on earth I'm doing wrong, and more importantly, what I can do to stop them dying on me. Maybe there's some sort of genetic defect? I can remember at a hamster show hearing about breeders who'd lost a whole generation of hamsters due to so-called "lethal genes".