Feeding fish salmon
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namxas
Things With Stings R Us!
We feed our fish a LOT of salmon (we keep several Scorpaeniformes). Oddly enuff, our OSFF pair as well as our H. borbonius trio all love the stuff as well. The OSFF eat it right from the water column (we shave it with a micro grater), and the blotchies will take small bits right off a feeding stick.
Recty
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Being from Alaska I have ready access to salmon that I catch myself... when I had my 210 a decent part of my fishes diet was fresh salmon.
Now with my much smaller tank and smaller mouths, I havent tried it yet but I'm sure the fish I have would eat it just fine.
Anyway, to answer your question, no, there is no harm that feeding fresh fish will cause and if anything it will benefit them, lots of good nutrients there.
Now with my much smaller tank and smaller mouths, I havent tried it yet but I'm sure the fish I have would eat it just fine.
Anyway, to answer your question, no, there is no harm that feeding fresh fish will cause and if anything it will benefit them, lots of good nutrients there.
clownfreak
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Hey! Leave it for the commercial guys (j/k)
I have feed my BTAs frozen salmon (caught in Alaska) and trying to get my clownfish to eat it. They're a little picky though.
klepto
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I used to feed salmon. It surely prompts a good response. Clowns, anthias, wrasses, cardinals, butterflies, angels, tangs... all sorts of fishes have shown a good feeding response in my experience. There aren't many animals that will turn down fresh salmon!
Being a larger predatory fish, salmon will bioaccumulate contaminants such as mercury to a greater extent than smaller, shorter lived fishes or other animals lower on the food chain. This is why pregnant mothers (and arguably most humans) need to be conscious about their consumption of large predatory fishes.
For my tank, I choose smaller plankton (primarily krill and mysis) and occasionally chopped fish that aren't as high in mercury content as salmon, tuna, swordfish etc. All fish contain trace amounts of mercury. Not being an ichthyologist, I can't speak to how mercury or other accumulated contaminants would effect reef fishes. Perhaps my concern isn't valid.
I think the occasional enrichment with salmon is fine, I just try to err on the safe side.
Being a larger predatory fish, salmon will bioaccumulate contaminants such as mercury to a greater extent than smaller, shorter lived fishes or other animals lower on the food chain. This is why pregnant mothers (and arguably most humans) need to be conscious about their consumption of large predatory fishes.
For my tank, I choose smaller plankton (primarily krill and mysis) and occasionally chopped fish that aren't as high in mercury content as salmon, tuna, swordfish etc. All fish contain trace amounts of mercury. Not being an ichthyologist, I can't speak to how mercury or other accumulated contaminants would effect reef fishes. Perhaps my concern isn't valid.
I think the occasional enrichment with salmon is fine, I just try to err on the safe side.
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