Re: [RML] Food for thought

David Bloch (ebloch at alpha1.curtin.edu.au)
Tue, 17 Jun 1997 19:02:41 +0800

In Aquaculture they often use a proximate analysis of the muscle of the fish or prawn to determine levels of proteins and other substances to give a rough ballpark figure of what these levels should be in the artifical diets.
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From: Craig Bingman <cbingman at netcom.com>
To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au
Date: Tuesday, June 17, 1997 1:25 PM
Subject: Re: [RML] Food for thought

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>> Meanwhile maybe we should also rethink our approach to diet by going back
>> to basics like any examinations of stomach contents of wild-caught fish to
>> provide some clues. Also the old dictum that "structure echoes function" -
>> what are the external teeth on the lips of the trifasciatas for? Perhaps
>> for grazing algae and benthic organisms from the rocks etc?
>
>If anyone has data on the stomach contents of wild rainbows, I, for one,
>would be a rapt audience. The wild ones are about 24 hours by fast plane
>from where I live...
>
>Craig