fair enough, was just my opinion, and probaby not stating a fact that it shoud not be dispayed, if that makes any sense?
i love this african cichlid tank/assortment. i'm jealous....but i like mine better.
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I agree with nozqh, all i seen was a person feeding their fish. The fact is live feeders are now a part of aquaria more than ever. Feeding live feeders to your fish isnt mean, its another source of food, so the fish doesnt become dependant one one certain food source. It's no different than feeding your fish brine shrimp, brine shrimp is an animal too just like live feeders are, but we look at brine shrimp differently because why? Because they're mainly frozen, but it makes no idfference because brine shrimp were living animals at one time right.
Now I would understand if he posted a video of say a live mouse being tossed into a piranha tank, but it's a video of feeders, which is a common source of protien that hobbyist feed to their fish. I see it this way, fish in the wild eat other small fish right, do see someone running around your local lakes throwing in pellets to feed the fish? Of course not because we would think the person has lost their mind.
Now I would understand if he posted a video of say a live mouse being tossed into a piranha tank, but it's a video of feeders, which is a common source of protien that hobbyist feed to their fish. I see it this way, fish in the wild eat other small fish right, do see someone running around your local lakes throwing in pellets to feed the fish? Of course not because we would think the person has lost their mind.
i agree in a way, however, my opinion, and not a fact, is that i see it differenty, thats all...i eat cows, sheep, and fish!...i just see it differenty on this one, but happy to accept
I'm always a bit uncomfortable with feeder fish. So fish eat fish in the wild...it seems to me that this is often hauled out there as a reason to feed fish in captivity...usually with a rider that 'they need to eat other fish...its natural'. However, once you make a decision to keep fish in an aquarium you are removing them from nature and the same rules don't apply.
For instance, in nature, those fish would have to hunt for their food and their food could try and escape. So, 1) keeping fish in an aquarium is distinctly unnatural. 2) feeding fish other fish in an aquarium is distinctly unnatural and 3) most aquarium carnivorous fish will never even have seen a prey fish before it is tossed into their tank.
I accept an exception in cases of wild caught carnivores...which clearly require proper sized tanks and likely a prey diet...and are not suitable for most home aquarists.
In reality, nothing in feeder fish is unavailable in a proper diet which does not incorporate feeder fish. That and the fact that feeders can be a wonderful source of disease tends to put me in the don't feed fish live fish in captivity camp.
For instance, in nature, those fish would have to hunt for their food and their food could try and escape. So, 1) keeping fish in an aquarium is distinctly unnatural. 2) feeding fish other fish in an aquarium is distinctly unnatural and 3) most aquarium carnivorous fish will never even have seen a prey fish before it is tossed into their tank.
I accept an exception in cases of wild caught carnivores...which clearly require proper sized tanks and likely a prey diet...and are not suitable for most home aquarists.
In reality, nothing in feeder fish is unavailable in a proper diet which does not incorporate feeder fish. That and the fact that feeders can be a wonderful source of disease tends to put me in the don't feed fish live fish in captivity camp.
well everyone has a capacity for which they can handle. i know a bunch of people that don't mind the fact that animals eat other animals in the wild, but they would never in a million years feed anything alive to something else.
This is exactly why I'm against the culture within the hobby of just buying feeders at the LFS/petstore and feeding them to the predator fishes that same day. It's a whole different thing if an aquarist raises their own convicts or guppies to use as feeders, but there are a lot of people who will go down to petsmart buy a couple dozen rosy reds and feed them to the oscars that same day without thinking of nutritional value or quarantining.
i do not raise my own guppies that i feed to my JD, but i do not get them at pet stores either. my friend breeds guppies and every now and then gives me a few. he is very knowledgeable about guppies and i trust him that his guppies are perfectly healthy.
