as we can control what we feed they NEED to get a varried diet which DOES include LIVE foods, and if you can't hack it, even feeding bloodworm then you choose the wrong hobby!!
I HIGHLY doubt I chose the wrong hobby.
I rescue very sick fish and nurse them back to health. Haven't lost a one yet. SO, OBVIOUSLY I can hack it. I must be doing something right, dontcha think?
My whole point here is that I don't like to see stuff suffer and/or die unnecessarily.
If you do, that's your choice, cool for you.
I, however, don't like it and won't ever let anything suffer and/or die in front of me if I can at all help it. I have fed my fish bloodworms, cuz that's what they like to eat. BUT - that's just the whole "same as in nature" part of it that I'm bringing in.
i would NEVER own an animal such as a snake cuz it needs to eat live stuff.
I think you missed my point entirely.
Oh, and just in case you decide to go back and try to bring up the point where I previously said I don't feed my fish LIVE bloodworms, and then tell me I said in this post that i do feed them bloodworrms, the ones I give them are freeze dried or frozen. Not that it makes that much diff to the lives of the worms, BUT at least I didn't have to witness the little things swimming for their lives just before they were eaten.