mosquito larvae?

[PASoracco]

With all this rain we've been getting in northern california, several large terra cotta pots under my deck have filled with water. now as its starting to warm up a little, one of the larger pots has mosquito larvae. I was wondering, is it safe to feed these critters to my loaches? I feel like they would come across this sort of thing in nature, but wanted to check anyway; thanks!

[plaalye]

I do and they love them. Suck them out with a turkey baster. I mostly feed them to frye and smaller fish but they all love them!

[PASoracco]

awesome. the pots were clean except for a little unfertilized dirt and some fallen leaves, so I assumed the larvae would be ok for the loaches but I just wanted to be safe. today my loaches have gotten earth worms, spinach and now mosquito larvae all out of my garden; lucky pigs

[plaalye]

Do be very careful that the pots/water are not contmainated, maybe feed a few to just a few fish first and see what happens just to be safe. I keep a 10 gal tank outside on my deck most of the year to grow algae on rocks for my grazers and all kinds of larvae show up. I haven't had any problems feeding them.

[Diana]

I also scoop out the mosquito larvae from containers of water and feed them to all the fish.