Re: [GSAS-Member] Free fish food, or trade

["Dr. John Ruhland" <john@drruhland.com>]

Canola oil is rapeseed oil, and is not in the same family as cottonseed. 
Some Native American tribes use(d) cottonseeds to their benefit by using 
it to as a form of birth control. 

Susan,
Crushed coral sounds effective, although at the rate the coral reefs are 
being destroyed, I wonder if it is a renewable resource. Does anyone 
know about the ecological aspects of using coral? I've avoided using coral 
calcium in my practice, despite all the hype as a calcium/mineral supplement, 
for this reason.

Betty, 
Most of the chelating agents bind both heavy metals and minerals, thus soften 
the water. If you want to consider using dolomite, and then chelate out the 
lead, 
you've also chelated out what you wanted the dolomite for in the first place. 

John

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: A JACOBSON 
  To: Greater Seattle Aquarium Society member chat 
  Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 9:02 AM
  Subject: Re: [GSAS-Member] Free fish food, or trade


  Cottonseed oil causes sterility in men?  Cottonseed oil is canola oil, and 
that is everywhere and touted as very healthy!

  Are you sure of your facts?  Is there anyplace I can read up on the hazards 
of cottonseed oil?

  Anita

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: John Ruhland<mailto:john@drruhland.com> 
    To: Greater Seattle Aquarium Society member 
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    Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 9:40 PM
    Subject: 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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