Chub eat plankton, up to 1.5 centimeters or more gradually switch to eat phytoplankton, and like to eat grass carp feces and put chicken and cow dung. Also eat soybean milk, soybean dregs powder, bran and rice bran, etc., more like to eat artificial micro-granular with feed. It is interested in sour food and has an appetite for it.

It's eating preference is seasonal, spring mainly to plankton, rotting debris things to eat, in the high temperature of summer and early fall, they eat amazing, not very picky, which is why a lot of anglers like to use the explosive hook bait to catch it one of the reasons, we go out fishing must be based on the season bait preparation.

Chub habits:

Chub is a kind of high-temperature fish, the most suitable temperature of 24 ~ 30 ℃, the summer chub appetite is very strong, so China's northern region of the chub growth period is generally concentrated in the 7 ~ 9 months, after the fall chub appetite will gradually decline. The chub itself is more lively, preferring to jump, but more clumsy.

The silver carp needs to have enough oxygen in the water where it lives, and if the water is deprived of oxygen, it will immediately float its head and die soon. But overall, the growth cycle of silver carp is shorter and the survival rate is higher. Usually, the age of sexual maturity of silver carp is 1-2 years earlier than that of grass carp. The mature individuals are also smaller, with females over 3 kilograms reaching maturity.