I see you don't trash this group with personal attacks on other posters. Why
is that Roy Tristan? What makes this group and it's members immune from your
attacks and trolling? You realize you've destroyed the pond, goldfish and
misc aquarium groups don't you? What's your motive Roy Tristan, for
destroying all those other groups. You even invaded the rose group to get to
your victim Gail. If we all move here will you let us post in peace and stop
calling the women sluts and whores and telling the disabled to commit
suicide as you did Ed Alston?
"Tristan" wrote in message
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Dunno, but I have a hard time beliveing that food stuff harvested from
FW or SW is really handled so that it is not a cesspool of pathogens
fron setting in the sun, becoming warm etc etc., Afterall its a fish
etc that is eating it, and who could tell one way or another if lousy
substance was indeed the problem, or how it was handled or how it was
stored and handled by vendor.......there is a long list of "what ifs"
in regards to decent food.....Heck we all know food destined for human
consumption is also not handled properly.........nor is feed stuff
intended for cows and other domestic critters made and stored
properly....
My wife is always condeming trailer loads of foods destined for
grocery stores all due to handling issues........so we can allpretty
well assure outselves pet foods are probably a deplorable
substance....then again animals can usually tolerate foods that a
human being could not dream of eating.........so maybe short of
nutrion its all not worth while being concerned with if your buying
spoiled frozen or stuff thats worth the price they ask.
I guess I will go on with making and feeding my home brew SW foods,
and also feed it to those FW fish that will eat it.....supplement what
I make with decent brand name at least pelleted feeds on both ends FW
and SW.
On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:22:13 +0000, Gill Passman
wrote:
Pszemol wrote:
The problem with feeding foods from different environment is
in my opinion related more to nutrition composition - feeding
freshwater animals to marine predators would probably cause
malnutrition since freshwater foods did not grow eating marine
plankton but rather terrestial plants, insects, fruits - different
food chain. Marine fish should eat marine foods rich in fatty
acids and nutrients found in the sea not terrestial plants, right?
Absolutely so here is the dilemma....on one hand it is good to feed FW
stuff from SW and SW good from FW from a pathogen and disease
prevention
point of view...but on the other hand the nutritional requirements
differ....so if you feed FW fish exclusively on stuff from SW then you
are storing up health problems with liver/kidney/mineral
deficiency...and if you feed SW exclusively a freshwater diet you are
depriving them of the high protein diet and the type of plant matter
they can naturally digest....
Now logic would actually suggest that FW eat FW stuff and SW eat SW
stuff....but there are a number of articles that suggest that this is
the wrong way to go in terms of controlling disease and
pathogens....but
nutritionally it doesn't make sense....
So by following this doctorate are we actually shortening the lives of
our fish and critters by protecting them from disease in the short
term
only to get long term health issues? Or should we actually be
concentrating on finding healthy foodstuffs free of pathogens for both
our freshwater and sal****er buddies?
Gill
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I forgot more about ponds and koi than I'll ever know!