Re: Spawning mats and frozen fish food
Chris Howe (c_howe at med.su.oz.au)
Tue, 17 Sep 1996 09:34:43 +1000
Hi Adrian
At 06:40 AM 17/09/96 +1000, you wrote:
I use to get a freezed dried food that was all insects, but
>its no longer available. This was good as it contained a lot of "chiton"
>(insect skins?) which is part of their natural diet. However, I think the
>prawn shells do the same job?
Prawn shells and insect exoskeletons are both chitin, so yes they'd do the
same job. I don't think many (any?) vertebrates can digest chitin, which is
a polysaccharide (same sort of thing as cellulose) so maybe it's just roughage.
Cheers
Chris Howe