Free Live Food For Your Fish. MOSQUITO EGGS! learn how to collect, store, and hatch them
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- Learn how to provide live food for your fish by collecting mosquito eggs and hatching them yourself. Learn how mosquito eggs can be dried out and stored for later use with a close up look at the eggs as well as the mosquito larvae. Aquarium fish such as betta fish and guppies love mosquito larvae,
and they make a free healthy food source. Learn what mosquito larva eat and how you can raise them yourself.
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It's always a good day when Dave uploads. Your hard work is greatly appreciated
I appreciate that! 😁
I second this
My favorite live food for my goldfish is daphnia and mosquito larvae. They are great protein source. The fish love it and can eat a lot more live food than dried. Better digestion and color. Most importantly, less polluted water
Your goldfish must love you very much!
@@TheDave333 you should do a video analyzing protein content of each live food popularly used
That's a great idea!
I'm actually excited about seeing your gourami soon. I mean it! I really am!
It will be a great video! I'm still going through a lot of footage. They're such a beautiful fish.
Very informative and relaxing. Great content!😊
Thank you. I guess I shouldn't stop what I'm doing then. . . 😁
Hello dave!
Even though hexapods are phylogenetically in the pancrustacea, those rollie pollies are actually springtails, isopods have more than 6 legs
Hello, the little white creature in question has 14 legs ( I zoomed in ) while springtails only have 6 ( Hexapods). There are also too many body segments to be a springtail. Have you seen this video? ruclips.net/video/ZchYc3yPqRQ/видео.html
I always look forward to the warmer months. Feeding mosquito larva to my guppies is always fun to watch.
Thanks. Lots of good info.
My 30 water feature attracted mosquitos so I put a Beta in there. He loved his new large home, and the mosquitos.
Thanks for watching the video. Mosquitos are a great natural food. Bettas love them.
This is such an interesting and useful video, thanks for making this!
My pleasure!
5:24 Your gourami is acting like a great white shark.
I can see that.
You are such a clever man, and it does my heart good to know all those potential mosquitoes will be feeding beautiful fish instead of feeding off humans. I hope your weather is gorgeous.🖤🇨🇦
The weather is beautiful today, and I enjoyed watching the eclipse yesterday. . . It's a great comfort to know that the sun, the giver of all life, has returned to bless us with food and warmth. I plan on growing a lot of vegetables and fruits this year.
@@TheDave333 Here too, this will be a gardening year for me too. The yard took a beating with all the house repair last Summer. I can start much of it fresh. There is something rewarding about growing your own food. Looks like a bumper crop of apricots on their way, massive bloom.💖🖤🇨🇦
Awesome! I love getting my hands and feet dirty. I always garden barefoot, and love to grow my own fresh food. Best of luck with the apricots! 🌻🌼🐝🌴
@@TheDave333 Me too, love getting my hands and feet in the dirt, and the taste of home grown food, so much better than commercial grown. It is so rewarding. We are in a wet patch since yesterday, but that is good in Spring, feeding the deep roots. I love Sun Return, and the beauty of the first flowers.🥰🖤🇨🇦
It's been wet here as well for several days too. I have lots of crocuses blooming in the front yard. A typical spring.
I use changes in weather / barometric pressure to help trigger my corydoras catfish to breed. Water changes with slightly cooler water, increased water movement, lots of food, and a drop in air pressure can often cause fish to lay eggs. . . The point is to simulate rainfall. 🌻🌼🐝
I'll try again this year with a brine shrimp net... I've never been able to collect a raft though I've been collecting mosquito larvae for my fish for years. Use a brine shrimp net. Got it. Thanks! Hoping to put some rafts in the fridge, after warning hubby of course.
Remember you can strain the rafts through a coffee filter and dry them out so they won't hatch until you're ready for them. No need to keep in the fridge. Use a magnifying glass to find them. Keep the surface of the water free of debris, so they're easier to locate. They look like little specks of dirt floating on the surface. Some times they'll cling to the edges of the container. Best of luck. 🦠🦠🦠
@@TheDave333 Woohoo found 3 today - going to dry them for hatching in winter and start collecting live as they are in 3 of 4 buckets currently. My fish will be even more thrilled than I am! Thanks for the help:)
Any ideas for a 55 gallon aquarium that I have?
I prefer lots of small creatures living together in harmony, rather than a few big fish. It's much more interesting to set up a tank with as much variety as possible. Start with cherry shrimp in a heavily planted tank, get them established and multiplying, then slowly add fish. 6 or more corydoras catfish would be nice, and they won't bother the shrimp. Then, add peaceful fish that are not too predatory such as Endlers or guppies. Hillstream loaches would also be compatible.
Ahh... mosquito larvea, I get the creeps when I see them move
But they make great live food though
And it's a few less biting mosquitoes flying around!
That’s good video! Can you imagine 700 mosquitoes hatching in your home? 😂
That would be awful!
Cool video, any chance to do a video on blackworms?
Unfortunately, all of the flooding in California in recent months has made blackworms unavailable. I have a few living in some of my tanks, but not enough. Yes, I've been wanting to make a video about them. I was growing / culturing them for a while, but lost most of them due to high temperatures. I really need them for my corydoras catfish, but they've been very hard to find.
Hey Dave! How many running fish tanks do you have?
22 at the moment, and I wish I had room for more!
@@TheDave333 Sounds awesome!
also the little tadpole-looking ones are cyclops, i think!!
Yes, you have a keen eye my friend! I didn't think anyone would notice! 😊 I saw the cyclops, but it wasn't visible long enough to bother mentioning it. There's also a tiny black beetle in the same shot. Nice work! 🦠🦠🦠
It seems unlikely that I'll proliferate even more mosquitoes in my neighborhood 😅
I'm not a fan of mosquitoes, but I imagine they serve a purpose other than to make people miserable.
Did you put the daphnia in there?
No they're a part of the bucket population. I get the same group of creatures every year. They were probably introduced with the tank water that I used to fill the bucket in the beginning.
@@TheDave333where did you source the original ‘culture’? Was it from pond or creek water or can you source the daphnia from a terrestrial source? Thank you =) very helpful video
Can you do a video about paramecium?
I could at some point. I use wheatberries.
@@TheDave333 Awesome! I was worried they were too small to film at this HQ. Looking forward to it if you end up trying it!
Well, they are pretty small, but I'll try.
@@TheDave333 My deepest thanks for that.
Better watch out for the mosquito's life cycle. Better collect every 3 days to prevent from creating adults and cause harm to you and others.
See video for info
Mosquitoes kill more people every year that all of the other animals combined. Amazing but true! 🦠🦠🦠
Firrrrst...!!!
Thanks Nick! You get all of the Emojis 🦐 🐠😁 😓😞 🐟🦐🦠 ❤🐠🦈🐟🌻🌼🐝🤔 🌴
It's really great how we can breed ecological mosquitoes for our fish, thank you for sharing details. On other hand , hardest part is to deal with angry neighbors 🙄
Angry neighbors are never any fun.
@@TheDave333 when they discovered where is hatchery, first response should be denying everything and wondering - " what? I didn't know, oh my God" . But anyway it's end of vampires colony. 🙈🙉🙊
Ha Ha Ha! 😁 I go out and remove the eggs every morning, so there are very few mosquitoes that ever hatch. But yes, deny everything. 😁
@@moonpleco5083I wonder if you can cover it with a net to prevent any adults flying out 🤷🏻♀️ I guess it’s tricky either way
@@Liliarthan Mosquito always find their way to sneak out and last but not least, when many adults hatch they make specific noise, females become blood thirsty. The only way is, as Dave mentioned above , collect eggs every morning....
Everything depends where you live, how far from neighbours . If they spot hatchery covered by net, hmm... denying intentional breeding is impossible 🤣
Those are not isopods, but springtails! They’re a lineage of hexapods that aren’t even insects.
I thought at first that they might be springtails as well, but they have 14 legs, while springtails only have 6. (I zoomed in) There are also too many body segments to be a hexapod.
5:21 What a handsome Pearl Gourami.😍 He looks mature and vigoous.
He's a future video star. If only he and his lady would produce viable offspring! 😁
AWESOME CONTENT….Thanks!!
My pleasure! 😁
Thank you
You're welcome
Howdy, Dave! 🤠😁❤❤❤❤❤
Hello Chi ! Spring is here, and the shad will be running soon! 🦈🦈🦈
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This was a very educational vid. Maybe I should try this for my fish.
It's worth trying, the fish love them.
Great idea, I'm going to collect them this year.
Go for it!
Really amazing video as always.
I also saw all of your videos regarding the amano shrimps and I wanted to ask. I have an aquarium of about 80 liters with a pair of gormies and 10 neon nettra do you think the gormies and shrimp got along?
Gouramis and Amano shrimp should get along just fine.
This is such a great idea. I would go to the effort of netting up nearly mature larva from my cold tub when I could have been collecting the rafts this whole time!
You could still do both. 😁
Awesome video. How many life forms live literally outside our window! We don't need to do long journeys to see fantastic (or scary vampires) creatures.
Absolutely! I've been telling my friends that for years. There's a whole lifetime worth of discovery right outside our door. 😁