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Re: fish food

On 2 Aug 2001, at 13:27, Paul Jablinski wrote:

> All you intelectuals,
>    Feeding killies only protein - what do you say about that?
>   Bro. Paul

No. No. No.

Many essential vitamins are only soluble in fat/oil. 
Various other lipids are the same and just as essential 
(eg. choline).

Do not feed animal protein/tissue either, the fats are 
of the wrong type. (by animals I mean land animals such 
as cows...)

Pure protein also has very little roughage and would 
screw with the fish's gut. It would also make for a nice 
nutrient soup for all the gut parasites (bacteria and 
protozoans) and could make your fish seriously ill.

Stick to a balanced commercial feed or frozen/live foods.

Concerning the chicken you feed your fish... A piece of 
chicken breast is far from pure protein. It isn't 
exactly a balanced meal either. Beef heart with all the 
fat cut away would be a more tried and tested feed. If 
you are going to keep feeding chicken, supplement the 
diet with a good commercial feed (ie. tetra or sera, 
probably Mike Reed's stuff). 

Bye
Tyrone Genade
Southern African Killifish Society Coastal & Offshore Coordinator
AKA 08248
tyronegenade at yahoo_com
http://www.geocities.com/tyronegenade

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