What Do The Little Fishies Eat?

[Bluenose BKK]

I have a couple of ponds in my garden with those little fishies that I believe are there to eat mosquito larvae,very good idea!My question is though,unless the mozzies are breeding at the rate of a fast-food outlet what else do these little fishies live on?

They seem perfectly content to live on fresh air and I think are actually multiplying but I've searched the supermarkets for little fishy food to no avail!Does anyone know what these helpful little guys eat and where you can buy it from?

[lemoncake]

little fishies eat little fishie food

Ok, seriously, every supermarket has fish food, the brand is sakura

[Chittychangchang]

Bit off a fishy topic, me thinks.

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[chickenslegs]

If you give them fish food they won't eat the mozzie larvae.

[daveh]

I had those fish in a small pond I had in my backyard in California as well. Never fed them a thing and they lasted years. Finally, I drained the pond. My wife being Thai, she made me catch all the fish first and move them to some other place so they would not die.

[arthurwait]

I just can't put my finger on it.

[rene123]

Little fish eat vegetation and plankton as well as anything else that is alive and smaller than they are.

[Bluenose BKK]

I had those fish in a small pond I had in my backyard in California as well. Never fed them a thing and they lasted years. Finally, I drained the pond. My wife being Thai, she made me catch all the fish first and move them to some other place so they would not die.

She's obviously not an Isaan girl or they would have gone straight into some hot oil and the wok!

[Bluenose BKK]

Little fish eat vegetation and plankton as well as anything else that is alive and smaller than they are.

This is what I was guessing and why I leave the rotting leaves in there for vitamins and minerals!They look quite happy but I have noticed if I start fishing things out they crowd around like it's dinnertime so I was thinking of maybe supplementing their diet once a week!

[rene123]

Little fish eat vegetation and plankton as well as anything else that is alive and smaller than they are.

This is what I was guessing and why I leave the rotting leaves in there for vitamins and minerals!They look quite happy but I have noticed if I start fishing things out they crowd around like it's dinnertime so I was thinking of maybe supplementing their diet once a week!

Any time you disturb the silt at the bottom of any pond it stirs up food for the fish. In a klong near where I live they recently cleaned it of pond weed. While the excavator was working there were at least 3 or 4 women with dip nets scooping up the little fish that live in the filthy kong. I sure wouldn't eat anything out of it,,but the Thais don't seem to mind.

[tw25rw]

Probably nibble the algae and there will often be small flies etc that land on the water.

[Mrjlh]

Use a the strong spray from the hose to aerate the water once and awhile. it puts oxygen back into the water and stirs up the sediment that exposes micro organisms that live in the water. Good for the fish too. Scoop out excessive algae before you spray. And true if you feed them fish food they will stop eating mosquito larvae. They give live birth so some algae is good as it gives the little ones a place to hide. The larger ones will eat them.