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Re: [GSAS-Member] Free fish food, or trade
Matt,
I absolutely agree with you that homemade food is best for fish and
other animals including people. I'm sure there are a lot of byproducts
in fish food. I noticed cottonseed meal. That causes sterility in human
men. Since humans are genetically very similar to fish, it could not be
good for our scaley friends. I got a good recipe for homemade fish food
from Susan. I'll be trying that as soon as I have a little extra time.
In the meanwhile, I'm trying to find a food the fish like, AND that
will hopefully work in an automatic feeder, in case I need to use one
sometime.
New Life Spectrum large fish formula is a slowly sinking pellet that
fish tend to really love. It also enhances the yellows and reds,
guaranteed. I feed quite a bit of it.
Barbie
Barbie, where can I get that food?
Betty, thank you for your tips. My plectostamus's did NOT seem to like
the Wardley sinking algae tablets, so I'm currently trying the Hikari,
and will try the Tetra ones you recommend, which I ordered today.
Sandy, I'll be happy to give you the Hikari Cichlid Excel. I'll just
keep a bit, and store it in the freezer, to try for future fish I might
get. Are you going to the next GSAS meeting?
Thank you for all of your responses. That should save me quite a bit of
time and money experimenting. By the way, all of my fish seem to love
bloodworms. Regarding earthworms, do we need to worry about any
diseases if we feed worms from our yard to our fish?
John
On Feb 23, 2005, at 11:25 AM, matt kaufman wrote:
Until you can get a legitimate guaranteed analysis on the fish food
bag (you know, of course, that there's really not governing body that
oversees the claptrap fish food manufacturers print on their
packaging? There's no expiration dates, nor can you be comfortable
with their list of ingredients), you might as well make your own food,
it's substantially cheaper, you have more confidence in the
ingredients, fish love it. I used to make catfood-based fish food for
years and fed it to big cichlids.
I'll leave it as an exercise in web surfing to find home-made fish
food recipes, they've been discussed on the net for at least the past
17 years. I imagine Erik has some archived on the krib somewhere.
Also, hopefully the fish described are in separate tanks, otherwise
that Oscar will have a varied diet, indeed.
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