“…In these situations they are usually fed some type of commercial fish food (Meffe, 1992;Zulian et al, 1993;Fraile et al, 1994) but they will also eat a wide variety of other food types such as smaller or minced Gambusia, including a female's own young, other fish and fish eggs, mosquito larvae and pupae, Drosophila adults and pupae, corixid larvae, odonate larvae, Daphnia, copepods, back swimmers, brine shrimp, oligochaete worms, boiled egg, bread soaked in beaten egg and dried, finely chopped snails and liver (Seale, 1917;Geiser, 1924;Dionne, 1985;Meffe and Crump, 1987;Murdoch and Bence, 1987). Captive Gambusia will, in particular, eat the eggs and tadpoles of amphibians if provided with them (Lawler, 1989;Gamradt and Kats, 1996;Komak and Crossland, 2000).…”