Great time of year

[Sealth]

With all the rain this summer, there seems to be a lot of puddles and buckets of water around that are full of mosquito larvae. Get your brineshrimp net out, you're fish will love them. I only with I could seperate out the tiny larvae so I could feed them to my juvenile platys.

[Melody]

I moved your post here so nobody would miss the free food opportunity! :;): Great point - there has to be something good about mosquitos and fish sure love them.

I often hear concern about disease carried by live foods, yet I don't know of any real incidences of it happening. I wonder if its another myth perpetuated by the internet. I mean, I know its possible theoretically, but surely its not common as many fish thrive on larvae and mosquitos in the wild.

[_BaDgUy_]

I moved your post here so nobody would miss the free food opportunity! :;): Great point - there has to be something good about mosquitos and fish sure love them.

I often hear concern about disease carried by live foods, yet I don't know of any real incidences of it happening. I wonder if its another myth perpetuated by the internet. I mean, I know its possible theoretically, but surely its not common as many fish thrive on larvae and mosquitos in the wild.

It's not really a myth, but it is a myth! :err:

Yes, there are diseases with live food, but mostly in nature, in the wild. That was a great concern when hobbiests started feeding live foods 20-30 years ago, when the only source was the great outdoors!

Today, with most controlled environments, live food is clean of any diseases in most cases. Most live foods have been cultivated in closed environments for years, out of harms way in our own houses and fishrooms!

Personnaly, I've never really had any problems with live foods, except for the odd pest once in a while like leeches or a dragon fly larvae.

Hope this breaks the "myth"!
Myth busted?? :laugh:

[Melody]

LOL Kinda sorta?

I don't think the wild live foods are as bad as people think either. More of a risk I suppose, but really, when have you ever heard of a disease directly and positively connected to the fish being fed wild live food? I don't remember even one positive case, although I've heard of people suspecting it.

I should bring the question to Mr. Mykiss for a science based answer to that one I guess.:yes: