There is quite a debate that can be sparked by the above heading. Do you use goldfish to feed your cephs?
Some people do and some dont. Personally I have on quite a few ocassions, mainly if i ran out of crabs.
However, having been in this job at the fish importers for a few months I have to say that the common goldie and all the other varieties available are normally the sickest fish to be seen in the importers or indeed in the shops.
In fact, many sick goldfish are sold as feeders.
My point is that the goldfish, as sick as they sometimes are, are dosed quite severly with medications like formaldehyde, oxytetracyclin and of course copper based treatments.
Now I wouldn't use goldfish for fear of a build up in the tank/ceph of copper and everything else that is thrown at the goldfish. In retrospect i think that I can blame that on a small octopus that died on me last year after eating part of a fish one day and dead the next.
Just a thought... any opinions?
C
Some people do and some dont. Personally I have on quite a few ocassions, mainly if i ran out of crabs.
However, having been in this job at the fish importers for a few months I have to say that the common goldie and all the other varieties available are normally the sickest fish to be seen in the importers or indeed in the shops.
In fact, many sick goldfish are sold as feeders.
My point is that the goldfish, as sick as they sometimes are, are dosed quite severly with medications like formaldehyde, oxytetracyclin and of course copper based treatments.
Now I wouldn't use goldfish for fear of a build up in the tank/ceph of copper and everything else that is thrown at the goldfish. In retrospect i think that I can blame that on a small octopus that died on me last year after eating part of a fish one day and dead the next.
Just a thought... any opinions?
C