Green pea protein in fish food?
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I consider the green pea beneficial for both herbivore and omnivore species. Also green peas will help with digestion as well.
Agree with this, although peas have protein, its the veggy protein and non-protein that help with herbivores, and omnivores.
When I was raising a lot of herbivore fry, I ould puree peas, with hair algae, and tank water, and use a pipette to send clouds of it into the school of fry.
In my experience with terrestrial greenery, as in peas, broccoli, sprouts, lettuce, cabbage etc etc is that they go straight through the fish, and can be quite messy for your filters if you've been heavy handed with the feeding.
This is bad for your filters....but extremely beneficial for your fish. Beneficial for your fish as in giving them a good "clean out". Greens are probably the best laxative you can give your fish, and giving them a good clean out once in a while aids their overall digestive tract.
Fresh cooked peas, minus their skins, can be fed whole to bigger fish, cut up into smaller pieces for smaller fish, or mashed for tiddlers, though obviously mashing can be messy!
I tend only to feed terrestrial greenery to my giant gourami nowadays, in small quantities. But if any of my other fish exhibited bloat/constipation I'd feed them too to help clear their pipes.
This is bad for your filters....but extremely beneficial for your fish. Beneficial for your fish as in giving them a good "clean out". Greens are probably the best laxative you can give your fish, and giving them a good clean out once in a while aids their overall digestive tract.
Fresh cooked peas, minus their skins, can be fed whole to bigger fish, cut up into smaller pieces for smaller fish, or mashed for tiddlers, though obviously mashing can be messy!
I tend only to feed terrestrial greenery to my giant gourami nowadays, in small quantities. But if any of my other fish exhibited bloat/constipation I'd feed them too to help clear their pipes.
IMHO in commercial feed, years ago it was initially used as a gimmick by a number of manufacturers that wanted to include "greens", without paying the much higher price of spirulina. Today there are a number of commercial foods that contain quality aquatic based raw ingredients, beyond just spirulina.
Fiber (a non nutrient) can be found in lower cost raw ingredients, and pea protein lacks the amino acid content and bio-availability of marine sources, such as fish, krill, squid, etc. See past discussion for more info.
Aquatic v terrestrial | MonsterFishKeepers.com
HTH
Fiber (a non nutrient) can be found in lower cost raw ingredients, and pea protein lacks the amino acid content and bio-availability of marine sources, such as fish, krill, squid, etc. See past discussion for more info.
Aquatic v terrestrial | MonsterFishKeepers.com
HTH
Pea protein - Wikipedia
In aquaculture, there has always been a search for lower cost sources of protein, compared to the much higher costs associated with marine sources such as fish meal, krill meal, etc. Hence the use of soybean etc. Soy and peas aren’t being used because they are superior, they are used because they cost less. If one wants to mimic nature, there are far better ways to meet those goals than feeding soybeans, or peas.