I usually post in the Predator Forum, I post many threads about the care of the predatory fish like lions, other scorps, anglers, eels, etc. I post many threads on nutrition, as I believe along with water qualiity, is the foundation to long term success. I know I will speaking with a very small subset of hobbyist with my observations. I know this by the way humans take care of their own health; here is the US close to 70% are taking pharmaceutical chemicals and the US diet comprises close to 70% processed food. My approach is clean water, fresh food, and even live food for some or when necessary by other events.
Let get back to basics, I am finding more and more, people don't even understand what a carnivore is; or an omnivore, or an herbivore. This is one of the 1st thing I learned. So figure that out and do some research on what the specific fish actually eats in the wild. Then try and design a diet based on these two simple inputs. In captivity we can not always supply the exact same things they eat in the wild, so some alternatives will need to be thought out. In the wild everyone eats live, there are no scavengers that I know of that any of us keep in our aquariums; fish I am talking about not inverts. That includes herbivores, as they eat live algae. They also eat whole organisms, not bits and pieces, and scraps. And they are certainly not eating chemical nutritional enhancements or wheat and soy found in pellets and flake food.
We don't have an absolute hobby, and there are many solutions and causes to a plethora of issues. But instead of jumping to the chemical solution or blaming something abstract like carbon or stray voltage; lets first look at water quality and diet. I have rescued and reversed many conditions of a multitude of species by simply addressing these two issues. I have halted toxic chemical interventions and just simply changed the diet of many lions, eels, and even tangs and angels and saw the recovery with my own eyes.
If you are feeding your fish the same thing; scraps of long dead fish treated with chemicals, frozen for who knows how long, or something dried and mixed in with soy and wheat and chemicals additives; then let's start there. If you are feeding your herbivores a dominant meat diet in an immature tank, supplemented with dried seaweed and they develop hlle, let's start with the diet. Include some live macro algae and fresh protein sources. Even more important but less likely to be followed, have some maturity in your tank with available micro algae before you add your tangs, or even angels for that matter. If your lion or eel is declining and all you are feeding them is krill, let's look at that maybe being the culprit. If you want to find out more info on the predatory fish I mentioned, you can click my name and "find all threads".
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Let get back to basics, I am finding more and more, people don't even understand what a carnivore is; or an omnivore, or an herbivore. This is one of the 1st thing I learned. So figure that out and do some research on what the specific fish actually eats in the wild. Then try and design a diet based on these two simple inputs. In captivity we can not always supply the exact same things they eat in the wild, so some alternatives will need to be thought out. In the wild everyone eats live, there are no scavengers that I know of that any of us keep in our aquariums; fish I am talking about not inverts. That includes herbivores, as they eat live algae. They also eat whole organisms, not bits and pieces, and scraps. And they are certainly not eating chemical nutritional enhancements or wheat and soy found in pellets and flake food.
We don't have an absolute hobby, and there are many solutions and causes to a plethora of issues. But instead of jumping to the chemical solution or blaming something abstract like carbon or stray voltage; lets first look at water quality and diet. I have rescued and reversed many conditions of a multitude of species by simply addressing these two issues. I have halted toxic chemical interventions and just simply changed the diet of many lions, eels, and even tangs and angels and saw the recovery with my own eyes.
If you are feeding your fish the same thing; scraps of long dead fish treated with chemicals, frozen for who knows how long, or something dried and mixed in with soy and wheat and chemicals additives; then let's start there. If you are feeding your herbivores a dominant meat diet in an immature tank, supplemented with dried seaweed and they develop hlle, let's start with the diet. Include some live macro algae and fresh protein sources. Even more important but less likely to be followed, have some maturity in your tank with available micro algae before you add your tangs, or even angels for that matter. If your lion or eel is declining and all you are feeding them is krill, let's look at that maybe being the culprit. If you want to find out more info on the predatory fish I mentioned, you can click my name and "find all threads".
Lion King's dead food recommendations
I'm a health nut if you haven't noticed, this also translates to my pets. Today I will cover some of the dead foods I feed and why, with some nutritional info that I recall off the top of my head. This is by no means all the foods you can feed, these are just the ones I include in my feedings...
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