Just wondering what peoples' thoughts and experiences are regarding fish nutrition. Specifically, fish that have a staple diet of prepared foods like pellets (or frozen versions) vs fish that only eat frozen and live foods.
I have a marginalis and collare butterflyfish that will only eat raw shrimp, scallop, mysis (hikari, PE) and live blackworms. Will this diet provide everything they need, long term? I mean long... like 10+ years. How much of a role does their natural diet play? I would guess, judging by the maginalis' mouth, it doesn't get a whole lot of fish flesh, algae, etc in it's diet in the wild (outside of shrimp gut contenets) so how critical are these things? Are whole foods like the PE mysis especially critical in these instances?
I have a marginalis and collare butterflyfish that will only eat raw shrimp, scallop, mysis (hikari, PE) and live blackworms. Will this diet provide everything they need, long term? I mean long... like 10+ years. How much of a role does their natural diet play? I would guess, judging by the maginalis' mouth, it doesn't get a whole lot of fish flesh, algae, etc in it's diet in the wild (outside of shrimp gut contenets) so how critical are these things? Are whole foods like the PE mysis especially critical in these instances?