A, what food does the mackerel eatThe mackerel is a very common freshwater fish, and its distribution in China is very wide. Cyprinids have species that live in wild rivers and species that are bred in captivity, and the food they eat is different. When wild cyprinids are in the juvenile stage, they mainly eat some zooplankton in the water. As they get a little older and as adults, they are able to prey on many of the smaller animals around them. The mackerel is mainly a meat eater, and can feed on a wide variety of foods, such as snails, shrimps, aquatic insects, and so on, which are all common foods for them.
The behavior of artificial breeding of mackerel is also very common, at this time the same can give them some animal feed, such as snails, mussels and so on, the same as the wild mackerel. But there is also a more common feed is pellet feed, this kind of feed is specially designed for artificial breeding of fish, which contains all kinds of nutrition are relatively rich, is conducive to the rapid growth of mackerel. Therefore, it is this type of feed that is mainly fed when breeding mackerel in captivity.
Two, the mackerel can eat corn kernels corn kernels is one of the fish food, but is like to eat vegetarian fish prefer to eat corn kernels. Cyprinids are a kind of fish that like to eat meat, so they are generally not too interested in corn kernels. Although sometimes they do eat corn kernels, it is only as a last resort, and they will not eat corn kernels if meat food is available. In fact, corn kernels can be used as the raw material of pellet feed, and then with some other substances formulated into a feed, this feed is more suitable for mackerel to eat.