[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: NFC: Re: cat food???
I didn't know anyone on this list raised imitation crabs. What kind of meat
does it eat? JiM C.
-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Rollwage (Arlington) <grollwag at osimain_oilstates.com>
To: nfc at actwin_com <nfc at actwin_com>
Date: Sunday, December 05, 1999 5:29 PM
Subject: Re: NFC: Re: cat food???
>
>
>Imitation crab meat rules!!!!
>
>
>
>---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
>From: Chris Hedemark <chris at yonderway_com>
>Reply-To: nfc at actwin_com
>Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1999 14:44:29 -0500
>
>>Norman Edelen wrote:
>>
>>> I personally have always doubted products marketed in the aquarium hobby
as
>>> being only for one species. I feed goldfish foods, marine fish foods,
>>> tropical fish foods, and trout chow (considering broad categories of
>>> prepared food, and ignoring the live and frozen and homemade foods I
use) to
>>> any species I am keeping that will eat flakes or pellets. How can a
>>> goldfish food not feed barbs? On the other hand, I will never
understand
>>> one species hobbyists, those people only keeping goldfish, or only
keeping
>>> carp, or only keeping bettas, etc. The hobby is all about variety.
>>
>>With some types of cichlids, and certainly with pacus, I've had great
>>success using Repto-Min sticks from Tetra. The food marketed for the
>>fish I had didn't show good growth rate or coloration, but the turtle
>>sticks showed both.
>>
>>Speaking of variety, I think that too is important in foods. If you
>>ever take the opportunity to inspect the stomach contents of a fish you
>>will find a variety of foodstuffs has been consumed. Especially in
>>predators. In bass I have seen crayfish, tadpoles, other fish, duckweed
>>(presumably taken while eating fish near the surface), insects, and even
>>on one occaision some kind of small rodent. Most of the fish we keep
>>are likely omnivorous and in order to provide maximum health, a good
>>variety of foods must be provided. I like to experiment. Boiled
>>spinach, chopped "cocktail" shrimp, bloodworms, glassworms, flake food,
>>mussels. I do shy away from frozen brine shrimp as it seems to make an
>>awful mess of the tank and the fish don't seem to really go for it with
>>as much gusto as some of the other foods. Live brine is of course
>>another story.
>>
>>--
>>
>>"I would remind you that extremism in defense of liberty is no vice; and
>>I would remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no
>>virtue." - Barry Goldwater
>>
>
>
>--
>Regards,
>
>Gary Rollwage
>--
>