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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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