Do you ever feed the dried packaged seaweed to your tropical fish? I just put a piece in and my ghost shrimp attacked it and my betta took a big bite out of it, so hopin' its ok.
seaweed for tropical fish?
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It is fine. Read excerpt from a fellow snailer. Seaweeds are good additional diet for fish and snails.
I was so impressed with what I learned about seaweeds, I started eating it myself and sneaking it into sauces so my Son gets some. I fed Julian Sprung's Sea Vegies for awhile but it's expensive. The sheets aren't quite as expensive, but the snails don't appear to like them as much. I finally tracked down some species that are harvested for human consumption here in Canada, which I get in flakes & powder:
Ulva lactuca (Green)
Alaria marginata (Brown)
Laminaria Digitata (Brown)
Chondrus crispus (Red)
Porphyra spp. (Red)
Without the cellulose binding of terrestrial plants, it's far more efficiently utilized. Seaweed contains more vitamins and bio-available minerals (56 minerals and trace elements) than any other class of food. High in Vitamin C, B Vitamins, Vitamin E, Vitamin A, Carotenoids, Antioxidants, Enzymes and Protein. Chondrus crispus is used especially to build immunity and prevent viral diseases, including the treatment of TB in humans. Ulva has been tested on fish in several scientific studies with positive results across the board.
You would have to eat about 40 lb. of fresh vegetables and/or fruits to get as much iodine as you would from 1 gram of Kelp. It has 4 times the iron in Spinach, more calcium than Kale or Bok-choy, twice the magnesium of collard greens and more vitamin C by mass than oranges.
Wakame is one of the highest in sodium so I avoid that one. However, not all seaweeds are that high and the sodium in seaweed isn't as bad as it looks anyway. It's essential sodium balanced with potasium and sodium alone is not to blame for the negative effects we are warned about in the human diet. Table salt and sodium chloride are the bad ones. Laminaria (Kelp) has just over a quarter as much sodium as Wakame. A serving of Dulse has 50-75% LESS sodium than a cup of cooked beet greens.
Here's some snailbies munching on seaweed flakes:
It's actually the salted type that you find your sushi wrapped in. It also has a little salt on it. here's a pic http://comps.fotosearch.com/comp/UNT/UNT387/korean-seaweed_~u14106923.jpg