Feeding Crickets

LetsBeFriends · Jul 6, 2008

my LFS sells crickets and i was wondering if my fish would benefit from feeding on the occasional cricket or if it just not nessceary. appreciate the advice.

my fish are 9 tiger barbs 1 pictus cat 1 leporinus fasciatus 1 male and 1 female kirbinsis.

afireinside · Jul 6, 2008

I don't know how big your fish are, but my Oscar enjoys crickets.

piranha_tim · Jul 6, 2008

Well a varied diet is always good ... its just a question of the size ... I think your pictus cat would benefit most being a bottom feeder I beleive

kribensis12 · Jul 6, 2008

My angelfish LOVE crickets. They prefer the smaller ones. I just buy a few, pop them in, close the lid and all the mollies,s words, angels, platies, apistogramma come and eat them up. They love 'em!

fergalthefish · Jul 7, 2008

oh no i couldnt feed live food!! i'd feel too sorry for it :sad:

i'd probably end up keeping the poor things in another tank cos i wouldnt have the heart to feed them to something!!! how soft am i??? lol :blush:

LetsBeFriends · Jul 7, 2008

the smallest fish would be the barbs who could deffinitly hadle a small cricket, every one else is about 4-6 inches. i guess ill have to goand get some crickets soon.

Gilli · Jul 7, 2008

fergalthefish said:
oh no i couldnt feed live food!! i'd feel too sorry for it i'd probably end up keeping the poor things in another tank cos i wouldnt have the heart to feed them to something!!! how soft am i??? lol

I would be just the same - couldnt bear the thought of those poor things flailing for their lives! :sad:

I was over run with slugs in the garden a while back so one early morning my husband and I went out and collected hundreds of them. I couldnt bear to kill them so we collected them in a plastic bag with holes in and after work were going to take them to the local park. Anyway the day was roasting hot and I thought poor things will die from the heat. So I let them all go back in my garden!!! Now THATS too soft!!! :lol:

n3ont3tra · Jul 7, 2008

Gilli said:
I would be just the same - couldnt bear the thought of those poor things flailing for their lives!

I was over run with slugs in the garden a while back so one early morning my husband and I went out and collected hundreds of them. I couldnt bear to kill them so we collected them in a plastic bag with holes in and after work were going to take them to the local park. Anyway the day was roasting hot and I thought poor things will die from the heat. So I let them all go back in my garden!!! Now THATS too soft!!!

Wow.