Mice....wonder food for meat eating fish?

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henward

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IM from new zealand, and there was a article on the news about the trout being massive this season compared to the last couple of decades.

what happened is that a particular tree dropped lots of fruit and mice population sky rocketed...they swim and trout eats them.

some finding more than 10 mice in one trout! undigested and freshly eaten!

this brings me back....... mice to arowanas. i dont only enjoy watching the hunt...but you can gut load a mouse with what eve ryou want.....and its high in calcium, protein......

anyone agree with this?
i know there are arguaments about this....is it moral or scientific, cos in nature....mice is a superfood for these fish. not to mention smal birds, lizards too.
 
Bumping this question..Really interested in the answer.

I am new to keeping Arowanas, but feeding them those sticks/pellets feels like giving your children dog-food. It's probably very nutritious, but it just doesn't feel like it's fair to the majestic Aro.

I am considering a superb variety of "live" (well, "raw" is more appropriate) food:

1. Fresh Shrimp (de-shelled as my Aro is still juvenile)
2. Worms (Earthworms, Meal worms, etc. Blood worms while he's little)
3. Insects (Crickets)
4. Little baby Chicken (those little yellow ones)

(Nearly all of the above can be gut-loaded with the "healthy" stuff)

And all of the above is really cheap (relatively) in my part of the world.

Hence, really interested in the opinion of experts on MFK.

Regards,
Sid
 
i have tried to feed a mouse to my 24" silver and it just ignored it...i also feel that it is ok to feed birds, mice, lizerds, spiders, incects and live fish as a part of a heathy aros diet...many people say you can give the fish a sickness, but if you do it corect i beleve that is as close to a natural diet as we can get...alot of people also will say that birds are ok, but mammals are not since they my have trouble digesting the bones, were as feathers are basically motifided scales...just not as the staple since a fish isn't going to find those foods every day....also if this thread takes off it will most likly get closed, cause no one can handle real life and how it can die to feed another....they just don't realize that hamber they are eatting died much worse then a mouse in the food chain will...it is also a part of nature to have natural selection.
 
I'm wondering about this also. My cat usually catches a baby mouse every week or two and I always ponder feeding it to the aro, but don't. Morally I could care less about the mouse, I'm just wondering if it could be nutritious?
 
mouse, quarantined and gutloaded ..... even injected with garlic guard will provide a massive nutrition boost for ANY fish.

so much meat, calcium.
bones will be digested..just slower. if you kep temps up, bones will get diested with no prblems. start with small mice.

i will try this with my red again.
i used to do it with silvers. havent done it in ages.
 
it would be good for the aro, but it could have some poison since it is running around the house or maybe your neighbors house...if you want to try it get a small one from the lfs they should have feeder mice for snakes...
 
henward;3784665; said:
mouse, quarantined and gutloaded ..... even injected with garlic guard will provide a massive nutrition boost for ANY fish.

so much meat, calcium.
bones will be digested..just slower. if you kep temps up, bones will get diested with no prblems. start with small mice.

i will try this with my red again.
i used to do it with silvers. havent done it in ages.
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you realy don't need to gut load them, your article is prof of this....as no one gutloaded them for the trout
 
henward;3784674; said:
yeah, iwill get one from lfs, never just wild mice in the house or garden
im talking the white ones you get with pink eyes. they are 1.50 each lol
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i tried a pinky(frozen) and a small live one...i may try again since my aro really gets agressive at feedings now it might eat it...
 
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