RE: NFC: Oscar diet study

["Ronald W. Brooks" <orchid at kellnet_com>]

That's exactly what I am trying to determine cost effectiveness and
potential for the food market

Ron

-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: owner-nfc at actwin_com [mailto:owner-nfc at actwin_com]On Behalf Of
-> Eric Coffman
-> Sent: Friday, February 12, 1999 1:41 PM
-> To: nfc at actwin_com
-> Subject: Re: NFC: oscar diet study
->
->
-> What is the goal of this expirement? Pure curiousity? I have
-> always wondered
-> how well oscars would do being raised commercially for food. I
-> can just see
-> it on the grocery market under some catchy name like "brazilian
-> red bass".
-> Better than Tilapia I bet. Take care.
->
->
-> At 12:29 PM 2/12/99 +0000, you wrote:
-> >> Tank 1 fish weighed average of 48 grams with length of 10 cm
-> >> Tank 2 fish weighed average of 119 grams and length of 16 cm
-> >>
-> >> Quandary stop experiment and feed Tank 1 live food also or
-> continue for 3
-> >> more months.
-> >
-> >Ron,
-> >Although we can not draw strong conclusions from two tanks of
-> >fish, it sure seems like live food accelerates growth. Not too big a
-> >surprise, I suppose, except for the sheer magnitude of the effect.
-> >Given the basic result you have in hand, it seems more interesting to
-> >me to switch Tank 1 to live food and see to what degree they can
-> >compensate for lost growth. Compensatory mechanisms are known for
-> >many animals (e.g. snails).
-> >
-> >Thom DeWitt
-> >
-> >
-> >
->
->

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References:

• Re: NFC: oscar diet study
• From: Eric Coffman <erc114 at psu_edu>

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