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Posted 04 September 2010 - 08:29 PM

i was wondering if anybody had any great diving beetles, i also was wondering would they do ok with darters or sunfish?????

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Posted 04 September 2010 - 09:02 PM

Some would do ok with those fish in the right setup, some would eat the fish. Most have wings and would end up all over your house dead. It's not particularly easy to identify them either.

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Posted 05 September 2010 - 12:10 AM

also does anybody sell them?????

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Posted 05 September 2010 - 08:03 AM

also does anybody sell them?????

really? bugs that eat your fish and then fly around your house... that would take some serious marketing...
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Posted 05 September 2010 - 08:17 AM

Sounds pretty awesome to me! What if you had a whole herd of the things? That wold be really neat. You would be sitting there, reading, and your beetles would all be flying around the room. Occasionally they would dip into your tanks. And you would just sit there, smiling, because you have all these flying diving beetles, and nobody else does.

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Posted 05 September 2010 - 08:34 AM

also does anybody sell them?????

Probably not, but more punctuation marks might make it more likely.

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Posted 05 September 2010 - 10:47 AM

no seriously i;m gonna go collecting, but i doubt anywere near me has them. plus i would keep it in a separate tank from my fish.

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Posted 06 September 2010 - 09:34 AM

no seriously i;m gonna go collecting, but i doubt anywere near me has them. plus i would keep it in a separate tank from my fish.


That may work if you put a screen over the tank to keep them from flying out. Would a tank light mess them up? Some bugs are drawn to light.

oh, on the topic of aquatic insects, a recent national geographic gave the nutrition stats for a giant water bug. It was odd.

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Posted 06 September 2010 - 01:17 PM

welll i went out didn't catch any water bugs but i did catch some tadpoles any a baby cray (3 fourths of an cm long), an alegy from the pond (rock pool). then i guess the alegy contain micro organisms and... im gonna try to culture them, any suggestions on wat to feed them or wat they are . they look like little black dots

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Posted 06 September 2010 - 04:14 PM

welll i went out didn't catch any water bugs but i did catch some tadpoles any a baby cray (3 fourths of an cm long), an alegy from the pond (rock pool). then i guess the alegy contain micro organisms and... im gonna try to culture them, any suggestions on wat to feed them or wat they are . they look like little black dots


They are most likely daphnia but you'd need a microscope to tell for sure. Google daphnia care or daphnia culture or something and see what you find.

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Posted 06 September 2010 - 10:19 PM

definatly not daphina, they are little back dot an do not move in darting motion they move in a smooth swimming motion

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Posted 07 September 2010 - 11:19 AM

definatly not daphina, they are little back dot an do not move in darting motion they move in a smooth swimming motion


Could be water mites.

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Posted 15 September 2010 - 03:15 PM

i was wondering if anybody had any great diving beetles, i also was wondering would they do ok with darters or sunfish?????



http://www.aquacultu.../fwinverts.html might have them.




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