RE: NANFA-L-- Live Culture Options

Crail, Todd (tcrail-in-UTNet.UToledo.Edu)
Tue, 28 Mar 2006 07:20:32 -0500

The original part about the isopods was in regard to feeding odonate larvae.

Would fish eat them? We watch seasonal peaks and valleys in isopod abundance
in the ditches we monitor. They seem to do really well when fish are absent,
and curiously disappear when they come back ;)

Todd
The Pringles Madness, Toledo, OH
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
http://www.farmertodd.com

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From: owner-nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org on behalf of Mysteryman
Sent: Mon 3/27/2006 11:47 PM
To: nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org
Subject: Re: NANFA-L-- Live Culture Options

Crail, Todd wrote:

>Hi Geoff,
>
>The articles kinda get-in-it, but I don't see (on a skim over) that they
>address the aquatic types.
>
>The ones you find in your backyard are typically Armadillidium vulgare.
They
>
>
>
Would a fish actually want to eat a pillbug? They are hard & crunchy,
and then there's that disgusting smell... I suppose most fish might not
actually mind that, but pillbugs shouldn't be a common natural prey
item, should they?

By the way, I met a guy online once who had wiped out his entire tank
tank of African Cichlids by feeding them mushrooms. Good old portabello
mushrooms, the ones we humans eat with such relish, are deadly to fish,
it seems. He fed them to his fish to supplement their diet which was a
bit too lean on "veggies," never thinking that 'shrooms aren't veggies
at all.
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