Attn: Mods - Please change the title for my mispelled word frozen. Thank you.
Sizes 2.5"-13" Indos.
Feeding 4" cut up frozen smelt ok as a supplement for datnoids? Only ask as smelt has a higher nutritional content than frozen tilapia and market shrimp, and super cheap. While sodium is slightly higher than shrimp but equivalent to tilapia.
Objective: To grow them out faster than my usual staple of cut up tilapia, shrimp, and pellets that some will take. So, a possible good grow out food source?
Serving Size 4 oz (112g)
Amount per serving size:
Calories 100fat Calories 20
Daily Value : Total Fat 3g 4%, Sat Fat 0%, Trans Fat 0g, Choleserol 80mg 27% , Sodium 70mg 27%. Carbohydrate 0g, Protein 20g, Vitamin A 2%, Calcium 8%, Iron 6%
Concern: The spinal cord on smelt is thick and can be removed pretty easily. I believe it is ok to leave it in when cut up but kinda a hard material. What is left is the small thin bones on the side of the fillet which gets cut up small tiny pieces to 1 inch. I know in the wild, whole fish is consumed regularly and digested. But just don't want to put my fish at risk on captive bred with this new change. Especially, they only have been consuming soft boneless flesh and pellets there whole life.
Questions:
- So, will these small bones cause any issues?
- Good food source?
- Any testimonials from people that have done this with small baby dats and larger ones? Thanks!
Sizes 2.5"-13" Indos.
Feeding 4" cut up frozen smelt ok as a supplement for datnoids? Only ask as smelt has a higher nutritional content than frozen tilapia and market shrimp, and super cheap. While sodium is slightly higher than shrimp but equivalent to tilapia.
Objective: To grow them out faster than my usual staple of cut up tilapia, shrimp, and pellets that some will take. So, a possible good grow out food source?
Serving Size 4 oz (112g)
Amount per serving size:
Calories 100fat Calories 20
Daily Value : Total Fat 3g 4%, Sat Fat 0%, Trans Fat 0g, Choleserol 80mg 27% , Sodium 70mg 27%. Carbohydrate 0g, Protein 20g, Vitamin A 2%, Calcium 8%, Iron 6%
Concern: The spinal cord on smelt is thick and can be removed pretty easily. I believe it is ok to leave it in when cut up but kinda a hard material. What is left is the small thin bones on the side of the fillet which gets cut up small tiny pieces to 1 inch. I know in the wild, whole fish is consumed regularly and digested. But just don't want to put my fish at risk on captive bred with this new change. Especially, they only have been consuming soft boneless flesh and pellets there whole life.
Questions:
- So, will these small bones cause any issues?
- Good food source?
- Any testimonials from people that have done this with small baby dats and larger ones? Thanks!