its skeeter time

[knap_123]

Its a lot of work to gather the little buggers and seperate them and clean but my pipefish LOVE skeeter larva! And here in the south its as easy as breathing to find them. The pipefish look like a pack of coyotes hunting when I drop some in. Its really cool!

 

[JLynn]

Its a lot of work to gather the little buggers and seperate them and clean but my pipefish LOVE skeeter larvae!

Really? That is so weird. Don't you get bitten by the buggers in the process?

 

[reefgoddess808]

Not the larvae...all you have to do to get them is leave a bucket half filled with water, then skim out the larvae. Good food for fresh water guppies and mollies and other live bearers too.

 

[knap_123]

Tonight I added a mix of about 15 larve and brine. They completely ignored the brine and attacked the skeeters. But they did start on them later. They wouald snick the large and evev the pieces that broke apart. I put the large in one of those Betta containers from wally world. Looks like a worm container.

 

[JLynn]

Huh. Go figure. Do seahorses eat mosquito larvae too?

 

[rssjsb]

Great idea. How do you clean them? I would think if the bucket and water are clean, they'd be fine.

We don't really have mosquitos here, but I remember growing up in the south that they would appear in just about any amount water left standing outside.

They sell frozen mosquito larvae as "glass worms" or something like that. I used to feed them to my FW tank, but haven't bought them in a while.

 

[knap_123]

I use my bs screen and turkey baster. I scoop out some larva of the water they live in. And its preety nasty, stagnant, dark water. That's what they like.then I hold my screen over the water and pull some up with Tb and drop through screen . I'm trying to remove waste, bugs, etc. But not my larva. I keep it up till I'm satisfied. Then I pour the larva in the screen and rinse. After wards I pour in container with distilled water and just add when ready. just suck some up and water and all or pour in screen and add.