Is It Ok To Feed Dry/ Powdered Milk To Fry?

[aaronnorth]

before i found TFF i used to feed my endler fry powdered milk and they went mad on it, i was only feeding small bits. just wondering if it is fine as like a once a month supplement for the sdults too

thanks.

Please dont snap my hand off it is bad, they all survived the last few times

 

[Mikaila31]

Don't really see how it would be bad. I mean it does contain animal based fats that are harder for fish to digest, but it is also going to contain lots of protein, calcium and other good things. So IMO if you are having good results I don't see why you can't, especially if its as a supplement. I mean I've given my caecilian's bits of ham and cheese omelets as treats and they seem fine.

 

[OldMan47]

Actually most powdered milk does not have any fat in it so the animal fat thing does not apply. I have no idea if it's a good idea or not so I don't think I will be tring it.

 

[Bignose]

It isn't anything they would typically find in the wild, so it isn't anything that their body would naturally know what to do with. Their body would have to break it down to its basic components, and probably generate a lot of waste because of the larger number of things that their bodies don't know what to do with. Organs like the liver and kidneys would have to work significantly harder than they would otherwise. It is the same reason that you shouldn't feed your fish chicken and beef and pork -- it just isn't something that the fish are going to consume very often in the wild, and evolutionarily, they just haven't developed the biological processes to handle those kinds of material.

I think that it is probably a bad idea unless you have no food at all for them. I think that really finely crushed flake is probably better than powdered milk, because at least the flake food is based on things that they would normally consume in the wild, and you can always crush up flake food in between your fingers.

 

[shelaghfishface]

Organs like the liver and kidneys

even in human babies, there is a risk of kidney damage if you add too much to the water,and thats milk designed for babies !

what milk is it you feed them> marvel or something? and when you say you have had success with it before," they survived" how long for?, im not condeming you using it,just interested in the results

 

[aaronnorth]

thanks, it is from tesco,called - instant, dried skimmed milk (used for making coffee etc)

well i set the tank up in january this year, and so far i have had about 5 deaths, but they just dont stop breeding, i have way to many and i need to get rid of some,

overall the fry grew up healthily, and when i fed it, i only gave it them once a week.