Re: Frozen Foods

[IDMiamiBob@aol.com]

Chen writes:

> a friend of mine convinced me to buy some frozen food yesterday.  today as i
>  was feeding my fish the frozen white mosquito larvae, i read the label and
>  realized that what i was feeding my fish was basically 90% ice and the rest
>  was protein and fat.  
>  
>  so what's the point of buying this expensive frozen food?  i doubt the 
> protein
>  and other solids concentrations are much better for frozen shrimp or
>  blackworms.

Your body is also 85-90% water.  Your fish are 85-90% water.  If you fed your
fish live food, it would be 85-95% water.  The fish are designed around a90%
water diet.  But when you eliminate the water, the quality of the protein is
very high.

Just for the record, white misquito larvae are actually glass worms, and not
misqitoes at all. 

>  i have for a while been chopping up frozen fish, conch, clams or shrimp
that 
> i
>  buy at the fish market.  a lot of my fish love it.  from my experience,
>  steamer clams are good as they crumble easily, some fish and conch are too
>  tough or have nerves or connecting tissue that makes it hard to cut it up. 
> i
>  also like to feed them shrimp but i don't like peeling them.

Sounds like you are already feeding awide variety of frozen foods.

Bob Dixon


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