Harvesting Potato Beetle Larvae to Feed Your Fish!
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- They are a top live food source for your tropical fish but they are also a bit gnarly to harvest!
Facts I missed:
1) During "instar" stages the first two are rather small, perfect for tiny-mouthed fish.
2) Cultures can be obtained online (search peanut beetle larvae). If you're in my area I will happily trade/sell to you!
3) Dispose of old cultures carefully (esp in agricultural zones) as larvae are serious pest to farmers
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What a splendid feeding method for your fish, I will probably stick with my frozen foods as I only have a few fish large enough to properly utilize beetle larvae but I will keep this as a possibility in the future. How did you come across this technique?
Actually, the first stages of larvae are very small, perfect for tiny fish mouths! (I mentioned this oversight in description) I found out about this doing my endless curious-tour of You Tube!
Dear Steffan:
Ulomoides dermestoides is a species of beetle in the family Tenebrionidae, known under a variety of common names, such as Chinese beetle, Chinese weevil, and peanut beetle. I do believe that is the species you are culturing.
I’m glad I restarted my, 5-gallon blackworm (Lumbriculus variegatus) culture. They are easy to culture and collect. As they are high in fat, I feed, only sparingly.
I’ve cultured fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster). As the flies are vestigial-winged, it’s pretty easy, as well.
Culturing peanut beetles looks like a fun project. But, most of my fish are too small to devour the larva.
Thank you for sharing this, fascinating look, at your, terrific culture.
All my best,
Sincerely,
E. J. Brinegar
Very interesting. My local bait shop has all kinds of little crawlers for pet lizards. Might go down there and mix up my lake fishes diet. All my other fish are too small for anything other than brine shrimp.
But good info for predator fish🤘
Hey, see the above comment regarding sizes - It can work!
Nice, I keep a 5-gallon bucket of water outside and harvest mosquito larva from it.
Cool, I've never seen those before. Looks like they would be great for conditioning rainbows. I'll have to give them a try. Nothing better than live food!
Definitely. My rainbows love 'em. Though they'll eat anything ;)