Grass carp fry eat plankton, young fish at the same time insects, duckweed and algae, grow to more than 10 centimeters will ingest aquatic higher plants. Individuals can feed grass carp bait and pasta, wheatgrass, reeds, dogwood and other feeds, and it is best to feed young grass that is well digested and absorbed.
The dietary nature of grass carp
Grass carp feed on zooplankton at the fry stage, and partially on insects, earthworms, duckweed, and algae, including duckweed, turnipweed, and whorled black algae, at the larval stage.
When grass carp grow to more than ten centimeters, they become fully herbivorous fish, feeding only on aquatic higher plants, and especially like to eat grass family plants such as white fescue, tall fescue, and wheat.
In captivity, grass carp can eat bait specialized for grass carp, as well as pasta, corn kernels, corn leaves, elephant grass, wheat grass, dogwood, reeds, and so on.
Grass carp have small mouths, it is best to feed fresh well-digested and absorbed tender grass, do not feed too big, too hard grass. When feeding grass, the grass must be cleaned before feeding.