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Can fish feed be used to feed loach?

Loaches can eat fish feed.

Some researchers have observed the feeding habits of loaches in different water bodies and found that the food components in the intestines of loaches in rice fields, pond drains and sewage ditches are different. Loaches are omnivorous small fish with a wide range of feed sources. Water fleas, earthworms, maggots, etc. are natural bait organisms for loaches. Under artificial breeding conditions, they can be fed with rice bran, bean cakes, bean dregs, blood meal, and wheat bran.

The food intake of loach is closely related to water temperature. The daily feeding amount in March is 1% of the total body weight of loach, the daily feeding amount from April to June is 4% of the total body weight of loach, the daily feeding amount from July to August is 1% of the total body weight of loach, and the daily feeding amount from September to October is 4% of the total body weight of loach.

Under artificial breeding conditions, fertilization can be used to cultivate biological bait to feed young loaches; adult loaches can be fed with carnivorous feeds such as snails, earthworms, silkworm pupa powder, river clam meat, and poultry and livestock viscera, and a certain proportion of cheaper plant feeds, such as rice bran, bran, bean dregs, third-grade flour, old vegetable leaves, discarded fruits and vegetables, etc. Loaches can be raised together with other fish, and can eat fish feces, residues and leftover bait, so loaches are called cleaners in the pond. Whether loaches are fed with natural feed or artificial feed, they show a clear preference for animal feed. Because loaches have a diverse diet, the bait they ingest is wide and abundant, which plays a very important role in the rapid growth and high yield of loaches.

Additional information

Loach habits:

Loach can not only breathe through its gills and skin, it also has a special intestinal breathing function. When the weather is hot and humus at the bottom of the pond is rotting and causing severe hypoxia, loach can also jump out of the water or rise vertically to the water surface, swallow air directly with its mouth, and use its intestinal wall to assist in breathing. When it turns its head and slowly dives, the exhaust gas is discharged through the anus.

Loach is a kind of fish with a long and thin body, which is of the same thickness from head to toe. Its body is slippery and full of mucus. It has no large hard scales, but only a layer of almost invisible small scales. It has a round fin on its tail. This body shape is very suitable for drilling in the muddy bottom of the water.