Urgent! What does eel eat?
Monopterus albus is an omnivorous fish with animal food as the main food. Under natural conditions, there are mainly eat small fish, shrimp, mussels, snails, insects and large zooplankton such as cladocera, copepods and rotifers. Eat frogs, tadpoles, and sometimes duckweed, watermelon, filamentous algae, etc. The farmed Monopterus albus is mainly fed with earthworms, fly maggots, fish and shrimp, animal offal, offal from slaughter, compound feed and fresh feed such as bran, rice, rice bran, bean cake, bean curd residue and melon peel, and it is not allowed to feed with spoiled feed. It is best to pulverize animal feed and plant feed, and then mix and process them into granular feed for feeding. The particle size depends on the size of Monopterus albus, and it is generally appropriate to swallow it in one gulp. The feeding mode of Monopterus albus is sipping, and the food is swallowed directly without chewing. When encountering large food, Monopterus albus often bites the food by rotating its body. In the peak feeding period of Monopterus albus, if the feed is insufficient, Monopterus albus will also eat Monopterus albus smaller than itself. Therefore, when stocking, eel species with the same size and specifications should be selected to avoid mixed culture.