What food do loaches like to eat during breeding

The loach is an omnivorous fish, mostly coming out at night to prey on plankton, small crustaceans, insects, flat snails and fragments of higher plants and algae, etc., and sometimes also feeding on bottom humus or mud residue.

The loach likes to inhabit the bottom layer of still water, often appearing in the surface layer of silt rich in plant fragments in lakes, ponds, ditches and rice fields. It has strong adaptability to the environment. It has a body structure suited to moving in mud.

After air enters the intestinal tube for breathing, the waste gas is discharged from the anus. If the weather is muggy and the dissolved oxygen in the water is insufficient, the loach will swim to the water surface to swallow air, so the loach also has the laudatory name of “climate fish”.

In cold weather, or when the surrounding water is lacking, the loach burrows into the mud, relying on a small amount of water to keep its skin moist and on intestinal breathing to sustain life, and only comes out to move around when the weather warms and the water rises the following year.

During rearing, plant-based feeds such as wheat bran, rice bran, peanut cake, soybean cake, rapeseed cake and duckweed can be fed, with a small amount of fish meal, silkworm pupae, etc. appropriately mixed in.

In addition, manure and green manure can be applied to promote the reproduction of aquatic organisms used as feed.

Loaches are polycultured with other fish. They often feed on the leftover feed of other fish, so the loach is called the “cleaner

Loaches are very voracious, so during rearing, animal-based feed should be given sparingly to avoid overeating, which hinders normal intestinal breathing and affects growth.