What live fish foods can i find in nature?

how can i get some


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This is a very large subject, Fish Man.


I'm going to recommend two books for all the details:


';Culturing Live Foods'; by Michael R. Hellweg. TFH Publications, 2008.


';Encyclopedia of Live Foods,'; by Charles O. Masters. TFH Publications, 1975.





Both books tell how to collect live foods in the wild and how to raise them in cultures, and the Hellweg book lists some sources for buying starter cultures and supplies. The Masters book has more coverage of wild collecting of live foods. It's out of print, but copies are sometimes available from used book dealers.What live fish foods can i find in nature?
Mosquito larvae are the easiest and most common live fish food found everywhere, including your own back yard. Anything that holds rainwater is a possible breeding vessel for these insect pests but they are extremely nutritious for fish.





If you look under garbage cans, stepping stones or flat rocks where there is some moisture you could find white worms or grindal worms.





Ripe bananas are a source of fruit fly larvae which will soon develop into mature fruit flies.
There's loads of stuff out there however, the problem is introducing something you shouldn't, I've learned this the heard way having introduced dragonfly larvae on two separate occasions, so I went to a mesh covered water butt allowing it to stand, during the summer months I'm able to take blood worm from it, otherwise I avoid collecting cyclops and daphnia now.






mosquito larva.


and you can culture your own infusoria to feed betta fry and dwarf gourami fry at home...