Effie
At 11:39 AM 10/28/98 +1100, you wrote:
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>On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Mach T. Fukada wrote:
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>> Maybe not need, but they will feed all the time that they can see. This
>> way they grow faster, and maybe grow better.
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>Mach, I am not so sure that "faster" equates to "better". It is one thing
>to feed them as many rotifers/whatever as they will eat by drip-feeding
>them through the day (the exponents of this system claim miraculous
>results and I have no reason whatsoever to doubt them) as this replicates
>what the fry would have in nature - continuous access to unlimited amounts
>of food. But I am yet to be convinced that 24 hour light is not screwing
>with developing systems within the fry that may be affected by light
>levels/durations - I have vague recollections about something to do with
>hormone production linked to lighting - can someone else remember this?
>Something brought up years ago to do with the pituitary gland in higher
>animals?
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>Cheers, Andrew
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>As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said:
> "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
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