Will/can fish eat house flies?

[Lylelovett]

So I'm really good at catching house flies...

Is it safe to feed them to my fish? Chromis, convict tang, clownfish, etc... mixed reef.

Thanks!

 

[Maddlesrain]

I don’t see why it would be unsafe, but I’m not sure the fish will actually eat them. Fish will taste just about anything, and I know some freshwater fish are fed crickets (and other insects) regularly, but the saltwater fish might not know what to do with them. You could try one and see if the fish show any interest - how are you catching the flies for this purpose? Just double checking there aren’t any chemicals involved that could hurt the fish. That would be my only real concern.

 

[KrisReef]

Depends on how recently the flies have been fed, and what they were eating. They may be full of nutrition and your fish would enjoy them.

I used to have a freshwater fish I fed grubs from the garden, but those grubs could be a natural food item for freshwater fish. I'm not certain how many reef fish would have access to freshwater flies, but I think that number would be very low. Kelp flies maybe, are you catching kelp flies?

 

[Land Shark]

following

 

[Lylelovett]

I don’t see why it would be unsafe, but I’m not sure the fish will actually eat them. Fish will taste just about anything, and I know some freshwater fish are fed crickets (and other insects) regularly, but the saltwater fish might not know what to do with them. You could try one and see if the fish show any interest - how are you catching the flies for this purpose? Just double checking there aren’t any chemicals involved that could hurt the fish. That would be my only real concern.

No chemicals, just regular house flies.

I'll give it a shot - see what happens!

 

[GThompson]

None of my fish touched the one that got in my tank. But good luck

 

[Silver14SS]

 

[4n2xtacy]

Imo...in the wild, fishes can eat anything.if a fly should land in the ocean and a fish has the opportunity to eat, it'll devour it. That's in the ocean. Flies are perpetually carriers of germs. The ocean water is big enough to carry the germs and spread the micro organisms far away from each other that they harmless. In our house tank, it's a whole different ball game. Putting a fly in your tank is giving room for pollution that cant even be tested for. Reef safe...

 

[BadFish619]

"You, beginner luck"

 

[Midrats]

 

[CindyKz]

Why would you want to feed them to your fish anyway? Just wondering.

 

[Gareth elliott]

Only kinda on topic but a fish that only eats terrestrial arthropods.
See them occasionally on fw forums. Actually a brackish water fish.

 

[Irishman]

I read an old post about this, on the other main forum site. And a lot of people said this was a bad idea. One person even chimed in and said that he was showing off his tank to his friends, caught a house fly and put it in his tank and with in a week his tank was almost nuked because of the chemicals the fly picked up around the house.