Feed roaches to fish

i dont think if feed roaches to my fish. bcuz i spill the food alot and spilled roaches leads to infestation
 
I see people coming in all the time when I'm at the LFS to buy crickets and the attendants have to count them out individually. I find this strange when there are literally hundreds of crickets and grasshoppers outside. All one has to do is turn on the porch light and set out a little dog food you get all the super fat crickets and grasshoppers you want, not scrawny like at the LFS. But I would never feed them to my fish because mostly all they do is float like a corpse when they accidentally land inside my aquarium, my fish have never eating them. If I really had no alternative I would at least liquefy them in the blender then pour them out for dehydration and make flake, but since I have no roaches (knock on wood) I would leave them out.
 
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CWO4GUNNER said:
I see people coming in all the time when I'm at the LFS to buy crickets and the attendants have to count them out individually. I find this strange when there are literally hundreds of crickets and grasshoppers outside. All one has to do is turn on the porch light and set out a little dog food you get all the super fat crickets and grasshoppers you want, not scrawny like at the LFS. But I would never feed them to my fish because mostly all they do is float like a corpse when they accidentally land inside my aquarium, my fish have never eating them. If I really had no alternative I would at least liquefy them in the blender then pour them out for dehydration and make flake, but since I have no roaches (knock on wood) I would leave them out.
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Blending them and dehydrating them sounds like a nasty process, I don't think I could handle that. What someone could do is start a earthworm colony. They are good to feed to fish, esp. if you like to go fishing in your creek/river/lake.
 
Matt101905 said:
Blending them and dehydrating them sounds like a nasty process, I don't think I could handle that. What someone could do is start a earthworm colony. They are good to feed to fish, esp. if you like to go fishing in your creek/river/lake.
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LOL yes indeed very good for fishing :D Pike go mad for mine, and they are evry easy to keep and stuff.

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they are great live food for fish and many other things... just make sure if you are going to catch them that they haven't been sprayed or fed roach bait.

Being roaches there is a good chance that people have tried to kill it with raid or something. Personally i would raise my own if i want to use roach as fish food
 
When I had Oscars as a kid I would occasionally bring up night crawlers or earthworms (same right) with hand generator for fishing and would occasionally give one to my Oscar but the darn things would stink once they broke open and cloud the aquarium and even the Oscar didn't care for them as much as wild caught guppies. I notice that the store bought night crawlers or earth worms don't stink when they gush out.
 
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personally my fish would have to eat squashed roaches as I could not resist my urge to smash them upon sight
 
Having lived in North Carolina for several years, I've seen my fair share of roaches. The call them "water bugs" down south.

Perhaps because you could jump on top of 'em and ride them to the ocean.

I would be afraid of poisoning my fish with any scavenger bug like that. Here in Ohio we don't have free roaming roaches here like they do down south. Any you would find here are likely from a place with a problem and had likely been exposed to some sort of poison.
 
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