[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

. If you look at the composition numbers, there's no comparison to PE mysis (<10% vs. something 60-70% if I recall correctly). For that reason PE stuff is awesome (fish will grow very quickly if fed this stuff as a staple), .

Ahh lets travel down this road again.. Hikari is a salt water shrimp collected from salt water were it is the natural food of salt water fish.

PE is collected from a fresh water lake in kelona were it is the food of fresh water fish who's lake freezes over in the winter so they need more fat to survive.

So. feed your fish PE and it is like taking a kid who grew up on a diet of rice and fish and switching his diet to beef and potato's.

there is a evolution factor here and although our fish may like the PE stuff it might not necessarily be good for them as a regular part of there diet.

another comparison is taking a tang, which has evolved to live on a very high fiber low protein diet and putting him in a tank which has no algae and feeding him meaty foods all the time instead. not exactly good for the evolved digestive system of a tang if you ask me.

look at mad cow disease.. came from making a cow eat what it naturally wouldn't eat.

I feed PE to my fresh water fish and Hikari to my salt water fish.

Steve