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Tropical Fish Keeping Help and Advice => Fish Food and Feeding => Topic started by: Adrian G on May 29, 2016, 07:36:13 PM

Title: Live food
Post by: Adrian G on May 29, 2016, 07:36:13 PM

Hi there
I've been having snail problems and have a bin previously only used for emptying tanks into at water changes outside the front door. I'm using this as a holding pen for snails prior to transfer to a pond (can't bring myself to squish them) so it only has excess tank water, rain water and aquarium plant trimmings in it. As with most standing water it now also has a healthy population of midge/mosquito larvae. Would these be safe to use as live food for my fish?
Thanks
Adrian  :cheers:

Title: Re: Live food
Post by: fcmf on May 29, 2016, 08:36:56 PM

Hi Adrian,

I don't have access to my laptop at the moment - just my phone - and so can't copy and paste in the link to the relevant thread. However, if you do a search for "Feeding flies to fish", you'll see the helpful responses to a similar query of mine.

Title: Re: Live food
Post by: Sue on May 29, 2016, 08:58:10 PM

Here (http://www.thinkfish.co.uk/forums/fish-food-and-feeding/feeding-flies-to-fish/) is fcmf's thread.

Title: Re: Live food
Post by: Adrian G on May 29, 2016, 09:46:17 PM

Great ta will pop some in and see how we go

Title: Re: Live food
Post by: ColinB on May 30, 2016, 10:18:28 AM

Excellent - let us know how you get on.

Title: Re: Live food
Post by: fcmf on May 30, 2016, 05:22:34 PM

Quote from: Sue on May 29, 2016, 08:58:10 PM

Here (http://www.thinkfish.co.uk/forums/fish-food-and-feeding/feeding-flies-to-fish/) is fcmf's thread.

Thanks, Sue - appreciate your help there. Happily reunited with my laptop now. :)

Adrian - looking forward to reading how you get on.