Feeding small insects?

[pseuro]

Hi all,

Another random question =)

What do you think about throwing random small insects into the aquarium for trophs to eat? (flies, mosquitoes, ants, etc etc) I assume it'll be a protein risk and or not knowing what kind of diseases things are carrying?

I'm not saying changing their diet to insects, but the odd time you see one around the house and just need to get rid of it anyways.

[Mastiffman/ Duramax7Man7]

I've tried that before, I've seen them pick at them but never eat them. I think that you'd be better off growing out artemia (brine shrimp) and feeding them a small netting of those once a week.

I;ve done the growing of artemia before and it works well. Just load their guts with a multivitamin before feeding them to the trophs for extra health benefits.

A good phyto plankton liquid multi vitamin usually does the trick.