Re: Fwd: Re: Fish food test

["Mr. Fish" <tvigmny@worldnet.att.net>]

Ed Pon wrote:

> >It seems to me that back in the 70's (Now I am dating myself) us
> keepers of large cichlids fed our fish Trout Chow.  Somehow, and of
> course this
> >is only from memory, we found out that the trout chow was for maximum
>
> >growth and contained many fat substances, which significantly
> shortened
> >our fishes lives in the end result.  The nuchal humps got nuchaler.
> I
> >believe that it was not good.  My memory's two cents.
> >
> >Mr. Fish
> >
> Mr.  Fish
> What you're saying makes sense.  When we were teen-agers, we could
> survive on fat-burgers(or puppies on puppy chow)--as we got full-grown

With pot bellies (Nuchal Humps)

> (I'm not admitting my age but I bet you couldn't be that much older
> than
> I am, if you are) our diets had to lighten up some

In deed, but we knew when to stop buying at the 7-11

> (just as Purina makes food for older dogs).  I'd be willing to bet
> (not very much) that the
> nutritional requirements of fish change in similar manners to people
> and dogs.

But does the fish keeper know when that period is?  A dog is fairly
obvious.  He just laz's around all day, playing on his computer.

Mr. Fish