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Hello.
I have a planter outside that was empty and rain water has been collecting in it.
I was about to clean it out (I don't want a mosquito swarm) and thought my fish would probably enjoy the treat.
Is there anything I should/could do to make them "safe" for the fish to eat?
I know there can be problems associated to feeding live foods/foods that are alive. Up til now, I've only fed them various commericalized frozen foods.
Thanks in advance...
Steph

If you're not living in a highly industrialized area, there shouldn't be any need for sterilization.

Coolbeans!
Thanks.

Sterilization wouldn't really do anything to most harmful industrial chemicals anyhow. The need for sterilization generally occurs when their is a parasitic lifecycle that has more than one host. It is unlikley for this to occur in a small isolated bucket of water, it mostly happens when live food is raised in unnatural, super-saturated conditions, or wild-harvested food sources in stagnant or polluted waters.

If it were me, I'd feed them the larvae without a second thought. I feed garden-dug earthworms, pond or stream caught invertebrates (excluding snails), and any random bug whose unfortunate fate it is to find my hand.