Recently I came across a widely asked question about aquariums...this is question asked by one of the Google users:
"Our doctor says that it is dangerous to keep fish tanks in our house during winter. Is it true because my fish tank does not have a lid and oxygen tank or plants he says that mosquitoes lay eggs on the water and breed? "
So here I am to clear the noise. Let's see if keeping an aquarium is unsafe for us and can deadly mosquitos lay eggs in the aquarium.
Where do musquitos lay eggs?
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| Mosquito larva |
Musquitos reproduce at a great pace because they have no breeding season as such, they can breed at any time of the year. And need only some container stored with water. Females will then lay eggs on the walls of the containers above the waterline. These will soon develop into mosquito larvae.
Are our aquariums place for laying eggs?
Coming to our aquariums. looking at the above situation our aquariums are containers stored with water (which may be not changed for many days). So if you have mosquitoes in your home then it's pretty obvious that they will lay eggs in the tank. But still, we are safe.
Why can't mosquitoes harm us then?
So yes Musquitoes can lay eggs in our tank if there is no lid to the tank. But don't panic because you are safe! Because the maximum limit of the mosquitoes is that they can lay eggs. But once they lay eggs they either sucked in the filter where they are destroyed. Or the most common fate is they are eaten by our fishes. And yes let there be any species from common goldfish to aggressive bettas, any fish will readily eat eggs/larvae of any insects they find. And in the wild, it's their main diet!
And I have also experienced adaptivity from the musquitoes! When I first bought my planted aquarium with an open-top, it had mosquito larvae in it. But they were eaten by my betta or Neon tetras and so a day came when mosquitoes stooped laying eggs in the tank!
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| Aquarium fish eating larvae. |
Concluding
So concluding this article and ending this age-old myth, I can declare that it is completely safe to keep an aquarium and there is no fear of mosquitoes laying eggs in the tank. You can never complain increase in mosquito population just because of your fish tank.