CATDOLL : CATDOLL: What do artificially bred leeches eat?

1. What materials are needed for artificial breeding of leeches?

First of all, we have to choose a place to breed leeches and build a breeding pond. The requirements for building a leech breeding pond are to build the breeding pond in a place that is sheltered from the wind and facing the sun, and where drainage and irrigation are convenient. The width of the leech breeding pond is set to 3 meters, the depth is 1 meter, and the length is built according to the specific situation. The water inlet and the drain outlet are set diagonally in the breeding pond, and then blocked with fishing nets to prevent leeches from escaping. The density of the fishing nets should be large, otherwise leeches are masters of sneaking away. If the scale of breeding is relatively small, you can also use puddles and small ponds to simply transform them for breeding. After the pool is built, you also need to prepare a place for the leeches to hide. You can use stones, branches, stumps, etc. Rocks can also be used as hiding places. This is relatively easy in rural areas.

Artificial breeding is all about bull leeches, that is, large leeches. Brown leeches are released. At present, it is difficult to see bull leeches in many places. If there are any, you can capture and purchase them. If not, you need to go to a professional breeding farm to introduce them. 10,000 seedlings can be released per cubic meter. Choose healthy and harmless large-sized leeches for breeding. Such leeches lay more eggs and have a high hatching rate. They can be sold ten months after they are released.

Many people ask what leeches eat when they are farmed. Leeches are not blood suckers. They like to eat snails, clams, frogs, earthworms, etc. They also eat the blood of other animals. Artificially farmed leeches mainly eat snails. You can also go to the slaughterhouse to buy animal blood, which is the favorite food of leeches. Artificially farmed leeches also use grass powder and cow dung to breed. For farmed leeches, you can also put about 25 kilograms of live snails per acre at a time, let them reproduce naturally, and the leeches can eat freely. Animal blood is generally fed once a week. The specific method is: put blood clots of pigs, cattle, sheep and other animals into the pool, and put one piece every 5 meters. After the leeches smell the fishy smell, they will quickly gather together and disperse by themselves after sucking.

In the daily management of leech breeding, it is necessary to regulate the water quality. Although leeches can grow in sewage, the density of artificial breeding is still relatively large, and a certain amount of water oxygen content is still required. When the oxygen content in the water is lower than 2 mg/L, leeches will also have the problem of floating like fish, especially in the hot summer, so pay attention to changing the water. Leeches will also hibernate in winter. In winter, you should choose leeches to keep for cocoon production next year. Select large and strong ones for seed. 10 to 15 kilograms per acre should be kept and concentrated in the breeding pool for wintering. When the temperature of the insulation pool is above 15℃ in winter, leeches can feed and grow, so as to shorten the breeding cycle and achieve the purpose of year-round breeding. When the water temperature of the breeding pool is between 15 and 30℃, leeches grow well. They stop feeding below 10℃, and their growth is affected above 35℃.

Leeches have a strong reproductive capacity. Each leech can produce about 4 cocoons at a time. The egg-laying period in the Yangtze River Basin is generally from late April to mid-June. After 16 to 25 days of natural hatching, leech cocoons will produce small leeches, with 13 to 35 leeches in each cocoon. The small leeches are tea yellow in color and grow rapidly, growing an average of 20 mm in length within one month after hatching.

2. What do leeches eat?

Leeches are omnivorous animals that mainly suck the blood and body fluids of animals. Plankton and insects in the water are their main food.

Generally, wild leeches mainly suck the blood of frogs. The artificially cultivated Japanese medicinal leeches and Philippine cattle leeches are fed with animal blood clots to ensure their nutritional balance.

3. What kind of bait do leeches like to eat?

Answer: Like to eat blood products, animal offal, etc.

Leeches are omnivorous animals that feed mainly on animal body fluids. Most leeches feed on various plankton and mollusks. When they are cultivated artificially, they are usually fed with animal viscera. Medicinal blood-sucking leeches feed mainly on blood clots. In the wild, leeches parasitize on frogs, golden apple snails, etc.

4. What to feed leeches when breeding?

The following three types of materials and organisms can be used to feed leeches: 1. Aquatic organisms: Wild leeches have a mixed diet, mainly feeding on algae, small fish, water fleas, shellfish and other aquatic organisms.

2. Human and animal blood: Leeches use suction cups to attach themselves to animals, and then insert their jaws into the skin to suck blood.

3. Cooked egg yolk: When breeding artificially, you can provide leeches with food such as cooked egg yolk and earthworms.

5. What do green leeches eat?

Leeches eat a lot of things and are omnivorous animals. Wild leeches can eat some aquatic algae, as well as plankton and mollusks in the water, such as snails, clams, shellfish, small fish, small insects, water fleas, etc. If humans and animals pass by, they will also suck the blood of humans and animals.

If leeches are to be artificially bred, they can be fed some animal offal, cooked egg yolks, compound feed, and some blood clot artificial feed.

6. What do leeches eat?

Leeches usually eat aquatic organisms, human and animal blood, and cooked egg yolks. 1. Aquatic organisms: Wild leeches have a mixed diet, mainly feeding on algae, small fish, water fleas, shellfish and other aquatic organisms.

2. Human and animal blood: Leeches use suction cups to attach themselves to animals, and then insert their jaws into the skin to suck blood.

3. Cooked egg yolk: When breeding artificially, you can provide leeches with food such as cooked egg yolk and earthworms.

7. What do leeches eat?

Leeches love to eat the blood of other animals.

Leeches love to suck the blood of other animals. They live in rice fields, ditches, shallow dirty ponds, etc. They love to suck the blood of humans and animals. They are very agile and can swim in waves or move like inchworms. They are extremely active in the spring, and their egg-laying period is from June to October.