Wild Mosquito Larvae?

[lrhodes]

I have been soaking some driftwood in a ten gallon tank in my back yard...
 
Well I noticed i had a million mosquito larva in the water. Since it hasn't been changed in like a week...
 
Well... I just fed my guppies and Betta wild, live mosquito larva...
 
Good idea... Or bad idea?

 

[214jay]

Good! The larvae have been in water you can trust so cannot be fresher, yum yum

 

[lrhodes]

ha. my Betta keeps looking at me now. He loved them.
 
I may have lost a guppy fry or two in all the commotion... They normally leave them alone. But some of the mosquito larva were bigger than they were! I didn't see any get eaten... But I saw several being chased...
 
I put the rest in a bag in the freezer... We will see if they like them frozen as much as alive!

 

[Baccus]

A really good idea, I often harvest mozzie wrigglers from tubs of water from my own yard. And if wood has been soaking in the water I also end up with bloodworms. The only caution I would warn is make sure that nothing like pesticides or herbicides have got into the water from wind drift.