are roaches any good as food for channel cats??
i got a roach problem in my fish room now.
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Any big fish that's able to swallow them whole is suitable for a "roach-dinner".
roaches don't have heavy armour (unlike beetles) or dangerous mouthparts that can do damage in a fish' stomach (unlike some larvae). No roach is poisonous, and they're easily bred in numbers.
A (sub-) adult or 1+foot long cat of any carnivorous species (or big cichlids, pikes,lungfish, rays, African and Asian Knife-fishes) will do fine on roaches.
For some it's a treat! Arowana's, Pantodon, Bichir etc
roaches don't have heavy armour (unlike beetles) or dangerous mouthparts that can do damage in a fish' stomach (unlike some larvae). No roach is poisonous, and they're easily bred in numbers.
A (sub-) adult or 1+foot long cat of any carnivorous species (or big cichlids, pikes,lungfish, rays, African and Asian Knife-fishes) will do fine on roaches.
For some it's a treat! Arowana's, Pantodon, Bichir etc
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Only if you can be sure that no poison has been put down (even in a neighbouring house/apartment). Enough poison bait to cockroaches a headache is quite likely to kill fish. You'd really be better off deliberately culturing them if you wanted to use them as food, you never know what 'free-range' ones might have been running through.jonthefishkid wrote:are roaches any good as food for channel cats??
i got a roach problem in my fish room now.
