ya fish n the wild dont always catch their food even if it is there. Some fish do fast Moray eels (OK not fish but u gt my point) sometimes wont eat for weeks matb a month or two. not because they ate a big meal n it satisfied them for a month. i think its too keep their body it top shape n keep their fat levels down
Do Fish Fast in the Wild?
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Being new to fish keeping, I can't really comment on that, but so far as the dog analogies -- it depends on the breed whether or not they eat till they burst. I have a cavapoo that I have to work with to get her to eat, whereas my two pugs would eat till they dropped dead.
The one thing that isn't coming up in this thread is metabolism based on species. Each species will need to consume different amounts of food (based on a percent of body wieght) with in a give time period to survive. Metabolism will not only vary within species, but even within set up. Amount of space to allow swimming, water temp and many other things all contribute to how many calories a fish needs to keep going on in a healthy manner.
I don't think anyone that has replied in this thread (please forgive me if anyone has written their thesis on this..
) can say for sure that fish (especially the fish that most of us keep - not sharks!) do not eat steady in the wild.
I will give you my uneducated opinion on this - I believe that fish eat fairly steady, at most opportunities... especially africans that graze on the algae and biofilm in the rift lakes, they are eating all the time, and food is available all the time.
My support of this belief is that any fish that I have caught fishing and consumed has had something in its stomach, whether it be insects, crustaceans, or other fish...
Burt
) can say for sure that fish (especially the fish that most of us keep - not sharks!) do not eat steady in the wild.I will give you my uneducated opinion on this - I believe that fish eat fairly steady, at most opportunities... especially africans that graze on the algae and biofilm in the rift lakes, they are eating all the time, and food is available all the time.
My support of this belief is that any fish that I have caught fishing and consumed has had something in its stomach, whether it be insects, crustaceans, or other fish...
Burt
Burtess;1610961; said:I don't think anyone that has replied in this thread (please forgive me if anyone has written their thesis on this..
I will give you my uneducated opinion on this - I believe that fish eat fairly steady, at most opportunities... especially africans that graze on the algae and biofilm in the rift lakes, they are eating all the time, and food is available all the time.
My support of this belief is that any fish that I have caught fishing and consumed has had something in its stomach, whether it be insects, crustaceans, or other fish...
Burt
I agree with you, but I would have to say that most fish are opportunistic to the point that they will eat food depending on the availability of food, how hungry they are, and the ease of which they can catch their prey.
