Black soldier fly for fish

[Sgooosh]

Hey guys! I was wondering if anyone else used whole black solider fly as fish food?

Recently got some cheap bags of it for chicken feed, and I figured that since my best performing fish food (fluval bug bites mini) had BSFL in it, it would be interesting to crush some up and throw it in the tank.
My fish go nuts for this, it performs even better than freeze dried stuff.
I now use it as a treat and supplement for outdoor fish

 

[Magnum Man]

I used a cheap coffee bean grinder to chop them up... be careful though, the unavoidable house mice, we constantly battle in a 100 year old farm house also love them, and chewed a hole in the big zip lock bag, and attempted to empty out the bag, and while they are dried, there must be eggs, because we got them hatching out from the mouse stash areas somehow... a great food source, but no more 5 lb. bags for me, in the house...

 

[GaryE]

I have chicken feed dried larvae, without any chickens. I find it leaves a calcium residue where it falls, in my very soft water. I need to use it more though, as it is good food.

 

[Sgooosh]

I used a cheap coffee bean grinder to chop them up... be careful though, the unavoidable house mice, we constantly battle in a 100 year old farm house also love them, and chewed a hole in the big zip lock bag, and attempted to empty out the bag, and while they are dried, there must be eggs, because we got them hatching out from the mouse stash areas somehow... a great food source, but no more 5 lb. bags for me, in the house...

ohh that's smart.
I'll keep that in mind and probably use a small baggie and put the big bag somewhere high up
interesting that the flies' eggs live that long! I think they may just be flies that are laying eggs in the mouse stash, as we frequently get the shells of those black soldier flies in our compost heaps.

I have chicken feed dried larvae, without any chickens. I find it leaves a calcium residue where it falls, in my very soft water. I need to use it more though, as it is good food.

nice! What do you mean it leaves a residue where it falls? The water is super hard here and leaves a stain if you just let it dry out on anything, so i may not be noticing the effects yet

 

[GaryE]

When the fly larvae would sit on the substrate for a short time before being eaten, they would leave a calcium patch. That I don't like.
We can refer back to the endless discussions on water hardness...
I also use a coffee grinder. I only keep small fish, and the larvae are a good size.