The chub is a typical filter-feeding fish. It relies on the special structure of the gills to filter plankton from the water.

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Main food: silver carp feed on zooplankton throughout their lives, mainly eating zooplankton in the fry stage, up to 1.5 centimeters or more gradually switch to eating phytoplankton, and like to eat grass carp feces and put chicken and cow dung. It also eats soybean milk, soybean dregs powder, bran and rice bran, etc., and prefers to eat artificial micro-granular feed. It is very interested in sour food and has a great appetite for bad food. Chub like to eat rotten food, often with grass carp with breeding chub eat grass carp feces, so there is a grass to raise three chub said.

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The chub's bait is obviously seasonal. Spring and fall in addition to plankton, but also a large number of eat rotting debris bait; summer water level is lower, the greater its intake; winter overwintering less eat less move. It is suitable for breeding in fertilized water.