Re: some problems

[Lilia Stepanova <ls691035@bcm.tmc.edu>]

Hi,
I do not think a pig liver is a good choice for several reasons. First, 
liver is a disposal gateway of the organism and hell knows if any of 
these are harmful to fish, especially fish so gently as rams. Second, pig 
liver contains quite a lot of fat and carbohydrates (I know it first hand 
as I tried to isolate RNA from it - what a mess). Clay color is from this. 
Third, liver will contaminate water much more than anything else..
Beef heart - good, proven, hi protein, low fat, will contaminate water, 
but to much less extent.
Cooking 1. raw, chopped with blender fine particles made from 
de-fibrinated (sp?) pieces (or whatever you call these things no one can 
chew on?). Can be frozen and kept indefinitely.
2. To minimize mess, I add some agarose or gelatin to #1 to bind blood, and 
very fine particles. Also can be frozen.  
#2 is a favorite food of my rams, no side effects of almost everyday use 
for the third generation.

PS. Thinking of other sources of meat - beef tongue should also be fine, 
but is rather expensive.. Raw fish or shrimp, too

Cheers

Lilia

On Fri, 25 Dec 1998, Andrew Ivanyuk wrote:

> Hi!
> So, today I tried to give my fish a little bit of boiled  pig liver at
> first time. They accepted it readily, but... contamination of the water was
> awful! The liver made a cloud of clayish color.. So I did not dare to keep
> on  this experiment and gave my fish usual portion of shrimp
> Do all such kinds of food pollute water so hard? What is about giving it
> raw?
>
> - Andrey
> ----------


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