Any thoughts on sweetcorn???

[fishncurrysauce]

I'm a huge advocate of feeding pets similar foods to what they would eat in the wild. For example, the BARF (don't laugh, it stands for Bones And Raw Food, seriously) diet for dogs. When's the last time you watched a documentary about wild dogs or wolves walking through a field shucking ears of corn?? Sounds pretty ridiculous, right? Yet the primary ingredient in most commercial dog food is corn. Makes no sense. They should be eating raw meats, uncooked bones (even chicken bones are ok - since they're raw, they don't splinter), plus some veggies (either cooked or finely chopped to replicate the partially digested stomach contents of prey since dogs' digestive tracts are too short to properly digest fiber). Sorry, don't mean to gross anyone out, but that's the way things happen in nature. And when have you ever seen a wild cat eating a bowl of cereal? They just don't eat that sort of thing. I think it should be the same with fish. Live foods are an obvious choice. And lettuce, cucumbers, spinach, peas and such all replicate the vegetation fish would include in their diets in the wild. But I just cannot imagine any natural part of a fish's diet that could be replicated by corn. Sorry, this just doesn't make any sense to me. Yes, a varied diet is a good thing, but I don't think something so unnatural could be good for fish. Of course I say this, but I certainly don't have a problem washing down a Snickers bar with a Coke...

what people ar looking for is something to make the diet interesting. i don't think that flake food is exactly a natural food for fish when they are in the wild.

splet flake wrong - oops

 

[Macracantha]

Thanks for the feedback guys.......

I think I will stick to the peas!!!

 

[MsDad]

what people ar looking for is something to make the diet interesting. i don't think that flake food is exactly a natural food for fish when they are in the wild.

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Of course flake food is not found in the wild. Neither is frozen brine shrimp or cichlid pellets. My point was that as responsible pet owners, we should be recreating as closely as possible the diet best suited to their evolved dietary needs. Obviously, this is the 21st century and we have enough knowledge to make our pets' diets as nutritious as possible. But to me, feeding a fish (or dog or cat) corn would be like feeding cucumbers to a snake.

 

[Fishist]

Here's something interesting:

My plec algae discs (by Wardley) contain corn gluten feed, corn gluten meal, corn distillers dried grains and corn flour.

 

[Katchan]

This thread reminds me of the people who like to turn their cat in vegitarians or vegans. Corn for fish is one thing, but a vegan diet for a cat , we feed our fish a range of things from brocolli, to zucunni (sp?) to peas, to bloodworms or when were feeling rich live brineshrimp

Katchan

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we also feed flake food, tetra tropical granules, and have some wardley community TEN pellets