Live food?

Question

hi there is nowhere where i live to buy live food is there any i can catch and breed from the wild that is safe

goldfish

dAnios

axolotl

and corys

7 tanks

Answer 1

if there is a stream or pond near you, there should be plenty to find near the shore with a little net.  bring em home and set up a tank for them and they should breed, just be sure to locate and remove eggs before theyre eaten.

Answer 2

What kind of fish do you have? Live food is actually not as healthy for your fish as frozen or flakes. I have fish that are stricktly carnivores and I feed them frozen shrimp and krill. Most fish will take to frozen foods, I say most. There are some that won't of course. Why not buy some guppies or other type of livebearers and breed your own that way rather then trying to catch some.

Answer 3

For many of the fish we keep, mosquito larvae are a common food source in the wild.

They are easy to "breed" during the summer months and it costs nothing.

Take a 5 gallon bucket. Into tha bucket place a mesh bag of some kind filled with vegetable matter (kitchen scraps for example) The nastier the better. I find that banan peels and watermelon rind work well. After a few days the vegetable matter will start to rot. Mosquitoes will lay there eggs in the bucket (Do this outside by the way....thought that obvious but better add it anyway). Check it every few days,. After about a week or so, there will be tons of mosquitoe larvae wriggling arouond in the bucket. Take out the mesh bag and pour the contents of the bucket through an aquarium net. Left in the net will be the wriggling little larvae. Empty the net into the tank and watch the fish go to town.

A few warnings... the reason to pour the entire contents of the bucket through the net is to avoid having left over larvae that then become nasty biting itch producing adult mosquitoes. The neighbors will not be happy with a mosquitoe factory next door! So pour the water through the net, wash out the bucket and start over again. That will avoid producing any adult mosquitoes.

Also, be aware that any uneaten larvae you put in your tank will become adult mosquitoes IN YOUR HOUSE! So don;t overdo it.

All of that said, this is a great technique to raise live food as an occasional (weekly perhaps) treat for your fish.

For larger fish, earthworms are easy to raise although it takes a bit of setting up. Look up Red Wiggler culture in yahoo's search engine. Once set up, this is free too. All you need is kitchen scraps to feed the worms.

Answer 4

the safest thing to do is to get some feeders from a pet store. there should be one near you some where.

if u cach anything from the wild, it will contaminate ur tank with potential disease, parasites, ect. not good for ur home aquarium. so get some feeders from a pet shop where it is safe from contaminates.

Answer 5

wat

Answer 6

I'm not really sure why the dude b4 me put down a shoe wevsite!?!?! but, my first assumtion would b 2 check all the local pet stores. to save gas and money: just look them up in a phone book and call! If u can't find anything there, u might also try finding out where some good fidhing spots r, and then try catching some of those fish that like!

Answer 7

catch some in the lake or something...