Fish Food

[Thuggerz]

hi all, is it possible to feed fish pea's and other kind of veg?

cheers!

 

[blitztidus]

Yep, just as long as you boil them for 30 seconds or so first

 

[Ethos]

Yep, just as long as you boil them for 30 seconds or so first

And make sure they're soft and VERY cool.

 

[Fella]

Yep, just as long as you boil them for 30 seconds or so first

That's not strictly necessary. Just defrosting them, and de-shelling them is perfectly adequate.

 

[blitztidus]

But you get the most out of them nurtition wise if you leave the shell on

 

[Ethos]

But you get the most out of them nurtition wise if you leave the shell on

Are you confident on that statement? I've never heard that before..

 

[blitztidus]

Well, it retains its nutrients better that way

 

[dwarfgourami]

Well, it retains its nutrients better that way

Yes, but lots of small fish can't get into it, so the nutrition will be wasted. Whether you boil/mash or not depends on what fish you have; my juvenile platies can't chew a whole piece of raw pea, so I do. It may be more nutritional the other way, but IMO food that doesn't get eaten is rather wasted, nutritionally speaking...

 

[Bignose]

In mature peas, the seed shell, also known as the endosperm, is almost completely consumed when harvested. Mature peas are the ones where you open the pod and take out the seeds. The inside part, called the cotyledon, becomes the major source of nutrion for a newly germinated plant. So, the shell of that seed actually has far less nutrients than the inner part. I've never heard of anyone feeding their fish pea pods, so I am pretty sure that mature garden peas is what we are talking about here.

See http/www.esu.edu/~milewski/intro_biol_tw...and_Fruits.html for example

 

[Ptarmigan]

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