Please Read Our Acceptable Use Policy Register as a TSS member Zebra Muscles Simply close this window to return to the Forum Index. It would be nice if that were the case. Zebra muscles eat phytoplankton that small larve and other aquatic insects eat. Small minnows eat a TON of those small organisms.
Trout feed on minnows.
You cant introduce a forein species and not have it affect the food chain. The muscles also lower the oxygen levels in the water. As of now they have no natural pretators in our waters, which means its going to be a long time coming before there is stability in our streams. You can bet it will. Zebra Muscles were the cause of Lake Erie being cleaned up, but it also caused millions of dollars to be spent in cleaning the pests out of drainage pipes.