NEED HELP!!!

[Ornatapinnis]

I just sat here and thought about this for a minute......

Fresh water fish do not drink water so adding a vitamin supplement to the water would be mostly useless.

Saltwater fish do drink the aquarium water, so the theory behind adding vitamin supplements to the water is that they will injest it thru drinking the water (I still think this is not very affective, protien skimmer zips it out of the water real fast, so dose carbon)

Soaking the food in the supplement gaurantees that the fish are injesting the suplement. Freshwater & saltwater fish do not need the same supplements, particulary lipids and amino acids. (not the same in fresh & salt)

Now to what I was thinking about...... What about brackish fish? What supplement should be used on them? Freshwater vitamins or saltwater vitamins? Do brackish fish absorb water thru osmosis or do they drink it? Dose Specific gravity determine this?

I don't know the answers to this, anyone have an answer?

Oh, and jen, did I mention....arrowana pictures?

 

[Ornatapinnis]

and.....

Soaking dry or freeze dried foods in vitamin supplemts is a great thing to do. They soak up the vitamins better than most frozen foods.


I'm just picking on you about the pics, can't wait to see them.

Joel

 

[jenBLKAROWANA]

Intresting questions.....I am feeding them a marine food, and using marine suppliments....They seem to be doing really good with what I am doing...I just figured because they were so close to being saltwater (1.016 is what they are in), I would use these...PLUS...I was given GREAT advice by the good people on MFK, including you, on that matter....
But now I ponder the questions you have....I hope someone out there knows the answers.....I would like to know!



Jen


COMING SOON TO A THREAD NEAR YOU:

ARO PICUTRES!!! (and tank pics)

 

[jenBLKAROWANA]

You mean to tell me that there is NO ONE out there that can answer Joel's questions???
Come on guys....and gals.......I know its friday, but WORK THAT BRAIN!!!

Jen

 

[jenBLKAROWANA]

SO all weekend went by....and no answers yet?????


Jen

 

[arkangel]

chances are that if he is still trying to eat he might make it. But you are just going to have to wait and see. You can possibly offer smaller food. Or seperate him and medicate.

 

[arkangel]

But it might be too painful for him to eat. My flying gurnard rammed the tank at night and broke his jaw and it was just too painful for him to eat and ventaully died.

 

[jenBLKAROWANA]

No...he is gonna make it...He is eating really well and its healing up good! He is even trying to entice the pregnant female gobie to his little cave! He is gonna be fine.....

Jen