What kind of food do leeches eat?

Leeches are omnivorous animals, whose main way of life is to suck the blood or body fluids of animals. Wide-body golden leeches mainly take snails, longevity snails and mussels as staple foods, as long as they are fed alive, while Japanese medical leeches and Fei Niu leeches feed on blood clots of animals, together with plankton culture in the base to achieve a reasonable diet for leeches.

1. Leeches are omnivorous animals, taking the blood or body fluids of animals as the main way of life, often using plankton, insects and molluscs in the water as the main bait, and artificial conditions with all kinds of animal viscera, cooked egg yolk, formula feed and plant residues. Freshwater snail shellfish, miscellaneous fish, earthworms and so on. Wild leeches suck the blood of frogs, which is their favorite food.

2. Japanese medical leeches, phenanthrene cattle leeches and other blood sucking take the blood clots of animals as the staple food, together with plankton culture in the base, to achieve a reasonable diet of leeches.

3. The main foods suitable for obtaining and digesting by leeches are snails, fish, turtles, frogs, birds and mammals, which can be used as temporary in vitro parasites of these animals. They also consume carrion, body fluids, tissues and the whole body of some invertebrates such as annelids, insect larvae and molluscs. Only a few species of leeches feed exclusively on one host animal, and most recipes include one or two types of animals. For example, fish houses feed on the blood of fish, and leeches feed on the blood of amphibians and reptiles.