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Originally Posted by AJ_77

what - no banana??


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um if a bannana fell into the water in haiwii then it could be concidered a natural food

saying one type of mysis is better than another is all sales hype, the fact remains that they level of omega 3 fatty aids and other nutrents and vitimens are different in the two and fish that eat a specific type of food are geneticly adapted for that food value. there is a relation ship between the amount of food a animal eats and how much value it gets from it. take a rabit fish for example or a tang, they eat a huge amount for a little nutrent value, if they were to get all the value they needed in 1/100th of the amount of food they would probably have all kinda of internal problems from the lack of the bulk. this is and extream example so lets find a more suttle one, take some one from china (small isolated village here) bring them to canada and feed them McDonnalds or what ever.. most of the time they will get sick as there body isn't acustome to the different levels in make up in the food (Carbs, Protiens, ect.) so now does it stand to reason that a non naitive food may not be the best thing for a fish, yes but it is hard to do, so we have to make some compromizes and that is usaly in the form of pellit foods that are formulated around natural diest for groups of fish. Also we suplement with frozen, fresh, home made ect... I actualy prefer frozen plankton over any of them (what I am currently feeding) as it gives me a wide range of critters and sizes.

Steve