Sera food??
- Thread starter Capt Dave
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hmm...well i think its cool that there's wood in there. The ingredient list seems to be more natural-ish than all the vitamins etc listed for Hikari's algae wafers
i'm sure the fish would eat it. Personally i'd add it to my mixed pelletized diet.
IIRC, plecos are after the bacteria film that's on the wood, not the wood itself. Wood has little to no nutritional value. Maybe the roughage will do good for them, although only .8% more than Hikari.
cheap too! i'd try it out and write a review. =)
i'm sure the fish would eat it. Personally i'd add it to my mixed pelletized diet.
IIRC, plecos are after the bacteria film that's on the wood, not the wood itself. Wood has little to no nutritional value. Maybe the roughage will do good for them, although only .8% more than Hikari.
cheap too! i'd try it out and write a review. =)
Not true. The digesting bacteria panaques harbor are akin to termite bacteria and actually do digest cellulose.
any pleco that enjoys driftwood would benefit from the Sera chips ... I don't use 'em, personally, as I just keep driftwood in the tanks, but from what I've heard they are a very good product
I've fed my fish other Sera products and they've always been consumed readily ... it's just that only one LFS near me actually carries Sera products, and it's not really that close ...
I've fed my fish other Sera products and they've always been consumed readily ... it's just that only one LFS near me actually carries Sera products, and it's not really that close ...
knifegill;4618330; said:
true, i do remember that now.
and since i was wrong, i must inquire: what nutrients are in the wood itself?
Capt Dave;4616099; said:
What percentage is wood? First two Ingredients are fillers
Ingredients
Wheat Meal, Wheat Germ Meal, Fish Meal, Spinach, Lucerne Meal (Alfalfa), Spirulina, Sea Algae, Willow Wood with Bark, Alder Wood and Vitamins.
For the most part pleco specific food is marketing hype, some even dye their flat pellets green...trying to complete the illusion..
For Panaques stick with driftwood , carrots and Yams..Then supplement with a quality pellet food like NLS.. My plecos love the 10MM size.
knifegill;4618330; said:
It's open to debate whether the wood itself can be used as primary food source. There are only a couple of papers, the most recent of which, by Donovan German argues that Panaque are unable to digest wood, opposing the paper by Jay Nelson (and others).
German (roughly) states that Panaque lack the specialised gut anatomy and have a too rapid gut transit to be able to digest wood.
Even if they are or aren't able to 'eat' and survive off of wood it still remains an important part of their diet and should always be available. IMO adding wood to a food is a filler, but for Panaque I think it's a helpful additive since their diet shouldn't be too rich and contain decent amounts of 'bulk' and roughage.