can they do any harm if a fish eats one?

can they do any harm if a fish eats one?

I have been feeding my Marble Hatchets moths for a number of years, apparently no ill effects and they live for a long time so seems ok. (must be amusing to see a grown man running around the back yard with the security light on, catching small moths by hand! - hopefully the neighbours haven't seen me.)

Lol, that does sound kinda funny..... I was just wondering because I was having a giggle last night at one of my Black Widows that thought it had found a treat and was swimming around with a moth in its mouth and was doing everything it could to keep everyone else away from it...... even pinching it back of the other tetras if it accidentally let it go and one of them happened to grab it instead....... then I suddenly thought maybe it wasn't good for them, but I guess in the wild there is probably all sorts that land in the water and they eat...... not all fish are lucky enough to have a private chef and waiter lol.....

Thanks for that fish plants

can they do any harm if a fish eats one?

only to the moth.

nom nom nom.

only to the moth.

nom nom nom.

Lol. I thought after I wrote that, I didn't word it very well....

I don't think it ever actually got eaten... I think they just played with it...... kinda like watching a cat play with a mouse or a bird that its caught, kept letting it go and then racing to catch it again before anyone else did......

you've inspired me to go moth catching and feed them to my killies. I suspect they will go down the hatch and then out the other end quite quickly. They also love ants - they scrabble around on the surface and the fish look sideways and up before grabbing them.

Hmmm, I might give the ants a go just for entertainment value lol..... but I really really really hate ants, so I hope the fish appeciate what I do for them lol

i drop them into a cup of water to keep them busy while i catch a few.

if they climb up the side i just swirl the water about to wash them back down.

after that they will hate you more than you hate them haha

Theres usually plenty ouside my back door, so I'm sure I can find a few hanging around

We get moths that find their way inside quite frequently... so if my nutball cat doesn't manage to climb up and do a kamikaze leap across the room and catch the moth first, then I'll hoof it (the moth, not the cat) into the fish tank and watch the fish come charging out from everywhere...

I found some mosquito wrigglers in a bucket of water the other day... fish love them wrigglers too!

My fish go mad on blowfly eggs!. Sounds gross aye, but they love them!.

ive seen one of my fighters jump to eat a common house fly, shurely theyre all fine

Well by the sounds of it the only harm it could have done is given the fish a bad case of indigestion lol..... I don't know how it thought it was going to swallow the darn moth haha

Yeah, Hatchets go bananas when they see a moth or fly struggling on the surface. I do pull the wings off the larger moths as the wings are waterproof and the Hachets can struggle to swallow them - but they give them up for no-one! Quite funny watching a Hatchet tear around the tank with Cardinals and other Hatchets in hot pursuit (almost as funny as watching a grown man prancing around catching moths with his bare hands..... ).

I heard of inanga grabbing moths by the abdomen the shooting down and dashing the head/thorax+wings off against a rock, then eating the abdomen.

native fish are clever 8)

[email protected] exactly what my little guy was like last night, no way was he giving it up......they are just so entertaining....can't wait until I get the bigger tank set up and get my tiger barbs, I think it's going to be awesome watching them with so much room to swim......