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  • June 29, 2014 at 7:04 pm #6797
    Rod Porteous
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    Just wondered if anyone feeds these to their fish as have hundreds of them in my daphnia tanks

    Thanks

    rod

    June 29, 2014 at 7:12 pm #6798
    Pavel Chaloupka
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    I use them for all my fish for a long time, great food as any other insect larvae that are small enough to be ingested.

    June 29, 2014 at 7:37 pm #6799
    Rod Porteous
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    Thanks, some of them do look a bit scary and big, but my nagyi soon gobbled them up! I wasn’t sure what mayfly larvae eat, because they look so similar to damselfly larvae, but it seems they eat decaying plant matter, so unlikely to be harmful to even small fish.

    Rod

    June 29, 2014 at 7:44 pm #6801
    Pavel Chaloupka
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    Yeah most of the Mayfly larve feed on detritus. Def not harmfull, they are pretty fast and hard to catch sometimes, but it makes the fish sport a bit so its even better. Another nice think is they do not swim on the surface so paros dont have aproach it to hunt them.

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